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Bryars - Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet | Philips 4388232

Bryars - Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Label: Philips

Cat No: 4388232

Barcode: 0028943882323

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 17th September 2012

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Contents

Artists

Tom Waits (vocals)
Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Conductor

Michael Riesman

Works

Bryars, Gavin

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Artists

Tom Waits (vocals)
Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Conductor

Michael Riesman

About

This late minimalist, 74-minute piece for orchestra and tape has had, and continues to have, a near-legendary effect on its audience.

It starts with a recording of a homeless man singing a halting, simple melody looped over and over. Then Gavin Bryars builds this with a full orchestra brought in incrementally, from the first carefully placed short pendulum string sweep to the point when, 10 minutes from the end, the gravelly-voiced singer Tom Waits joins in.

It's an obvious but effective work - appealing to all the basics of our emotional nervous system, but still tragically beautiful.

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