Towering Inferno - Kaddish / TI Records Audio CD 1993 / VBPL 016

UPC 752725001120

Kaddish is a 1993 concept album by English experimental music group Towering Inferno. It reflects on the Holocaust and includes East European folk singing, Rabbinical chants, klezmer fiddling, sampled voices (including Hitler's), heavy metal guitar and industrial synthesizer. Brian Eno described it as "the most frightening record I have ever heard". Kaddish was Towering Inferno's debut album. It was released on their own TI Records in 1993, and then globally by Island Records in 1995.

Tracklist:

Part 1

1.  The Rose   4:01

2.  Prayer   2:57

3.  Dachau  2:42

4.  4 By 2   2:44

5.  Edvard Kiraly   3:25

6.  Memory   4:32

Part 2

7.  Not Me   4:02

8.  Reverse Field   2:30

9.  Occupation   4:29

10. Sto Mondo Rotondo    2:29

11. Organ Loop   3:20

Part 3

12. Toll (I)   0:55

13. Toll (II)   3:38

14. The Ruin   2:00

15. Juden   0:51

16. Pogrom   4:10

17. Partisans   6:03

Part 4

18. Modern Times   6:14

19. The Rose (II)   3:33

20. The Bell   5:00

21. Kaddish   3:04

22. The Wea Ver   1:06

• Composed, performed by - Richard Wolfson & Andy Saunders
• Voice - Marta Sebestyen
• Voice, texts - Endre Szkarosi
• Drums, percussion - Steve Kellner, Gaspar Lawal, John Marshall & Chris Cutler
• Alto saxophone - Elton Dean
• Solo violins - Aleksander Kolkowski & Rick Koster
• Solo viola - Jocelyn Pook
• Electra Strings - Sonia Slany (first violin), Abigail Brown (second violin), Jocelyn Pook (viola), Dinah Beamish (cello), Andrew Davies (double bass), Glyn Perrin (piano)
• Musical director - Kenneth Bowen
• Mezzo soprano - Anya Kubrick