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Possessed
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"Early music ensemble, eX, presents Possessed, a musical journey through the mysterious world of possession. Featuring medieval, renaissance, baroque and traditional music, Possessed explores Chris...
"Early music ensemble, eX, presents Possessed, a musical journey through the mysterious world of possession. Featuring medieval, renaissance, baroque and traditional music, Possessed explores Christian ecstatic trance as experienced by Hildegard von Bingen, Teresa of Avila and Joan of Arc, demonic possession of the Salem witches, initiation rites of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble and a musical exorcism performed to the wild rhythms of the Tarantella"--Container.
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- Creator
- eX
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- Multiple languages, English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Latin
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Ireland?] : Heresy Records, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 sound file)
- digital optical
- audio file CD audio
- OCLC
- ocn911058296
- Credits
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- eX (Caitriona O'Leary, voice and percussion ; Clara Sanabras, voice and guitar ; Steve Player, guitars and percussion ; Paulina van Laarhoven, treble and bass viol, guitar ; Harvey Brough, psaltery, guitar, percussion ; Francesco Turrisi, frame drums, percussion, colascione ; Andrea Piccioni, frame drums, percussion)
- Recorded 2010 June and 2012 June Drogheda and Dublin, Ireland.
- Sung in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, or Latin.
- Psalm 121 / text: Bay Psalm Book (1640) ; music: American folk song (1:21) -- La ditie de Jehanne d'Arc / poem: Christine de Pizan ; music: anonymous Bayeux manuscript (15th century) (3:29) -- O deusa dos orixás / Romildo S. Bastos and Toninho Nascimento (1975) (3:00) -- Stu pettu è fattu cimbalu d'amuri / from Anastasius Kircher's "Magnes sive de arte magnetica" (4:24) -- Canarios/Vassi d'lansã / improvisation after Santiago de Murica ; traditional Brazilian (2:52) -- Ya toda me entregué y dí / poem: Santa Teresa de Avila ; music: "Paseábase el rey moro" (anonymous 15th/16th century) (3:15) -- Pizzica nardó / traditional Italian (1:21) -- Não tragais / anonymous cancionero de Paris (16th century) (2:23) -- Spellsong / Caittriona O'Leary (2002) (1:56) -- Ecclesiae militantis : (excerpt) / Guillaume Dufay (1:37) -- Fandango / Santiago de Murica (3:37) -- Montanara di carpino : (Tarantella del gargano) / traditional Italian (4:54) -- Tamburello solo / improvisation (2:01) -- Nunc aperuit clausa porta / Hildegard von Bingen (1:52) -- Witchcraft discovered and punished : to the tune of "Fortune my foe" / Broadside ballad (8:38) -- Pizzica tarentata / traditional Italian (3:24) -- Music makes me / music: Vincent Youmens ; lyrics: Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (1933) (3:15)