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Track Listing
1. Rose, The
2. Prayer
3. Dachau
4. 4 by 2
5. Edvard Kiraly
6. Memory
7. Not Me
8. Reverse Field
9. Occupation
10. Sto Mondo Rotondo
11. Organ Loop
12. Toll (I)
13. Toll (II)
14. Ruin, The
15. Juden
16. Pogrom
17. Partisans
18. Modern Times
19. Rose, The (II)
20. Bell, The
21. Kaddish
22. Weaver, The
Album Notes
Towering Inferno: Richard Wolfson (guitar, mandolin, piano, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, bells, programming); Andy Saunders (guitar, flute, soprano & alto saxophones, piano, keyboards, programming, sound effects); Gregg Skerman, Roger Riley.
Additional personnel: Marta Sebestyen, Endre Szkarosi, Malcom Miller, David Pearl, Rabbi Tamas Raj, Anya Kubrick, Theo, Choral Cymry Llundain (vocals); Tim Roseman (vocals, trumpet, shofar); Elton Dean (alto saxophone); Tim Hodgkinson (baritone saxophone); Elton Dean (Saxello); Aleksander Kolkowski, Rick Koster (violin); Jocelyn Pook (viola); Glyn Perrin (piano); John Marshall, Chris Cutler, Steve Kellner (drums); Gaspar Lawal (African percussion).
Electra Strings: Sonia Slany, Abigail Brown (violin); Jocelyn Pook (viola); Dinah Beamish (cello); Andrew Davis (acoustic bass).
Recorded at Diorama Studios, Lavender Hill Studios, Camden Lock and Porcupine, London, England; LGM Studios, Budapest, Hungary.
Industry Reviews
Part evocation, part elegy, KADDISH meditates on the Holocaust and its aftermath, summoning the terror of Eastern Europe's pogroms and concentration camps and the shattered silence they left....[KADDISH] meets the enormity of its subject with sobering immediacy.
New York Times (04/14/1996)
5 - Supreme - ...Moving through the gray world of modern European classicism to metal, to early Floydian menace...
Alternative Press (05/01/1996)
...incorporates a diverse mix of musical styles, prayers, poetry and voices...to create an impressionistic response to this huge, horrific subject. Alternating between stillness and clamor, beauty and terror...it's a story, a poem, a lament told in four parts...
Option (09/01/1996)
...Sparse piano lines and Hebrew chants drift solemnly through the mix, only to be consumed by militant beats and Nazi speech samples. Sobering and utterly engaging. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (04/15/1996)
3 Stars - Good - ...a thoughtful epic that engages intellect and ear, especially when heard through headphones. Lacking a single obvious message, the album delivers layers of meaning to the patient listener.
Rolling Stone (06/27/1996)
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