Psalters - The Divine Liturgy of the Wretched Exiles Instant Album Download
Jamie Moffett first heard this record on the ride home from the PAPA Festival, where Psalters electrified the crowd with our good friends mewithoutYou. They've made a lot of fans with this record, and we're guessing you'll soon try it and find out why. Check out this review from Phantom Toolbooth:
"Psalters infuses a twentyone-part traditional liturgy with its passion for fundamental theology, victim rights, pacifism, environmentalism, and thrift stores then plays it back in its road-tested style. The beautifully hand built CD cover is set up as a missal and includes beautifully illuminated music for all the choruses.
Following along with the lyrics and choruses helps strip away the novelty of 21st Century American nomads holding a service to reveal on the bones of the piece their call to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. For the Kyrie Eleison, they've chosen a song titled, "Rich man and Afganistan." The Offertory, "Dig it up," is a catchy screed against Wall Street greed. The Breaking of Bread, "Dumpster Divers," explores the ultimate statement of wealth, and so it goes, alternating straight traditional lyrics, "Agnuse dei," "Lord's Prayer," "Mysterium fidei" with more pointed lyrics, such as "Hosanna:"
Production values are outstanding, no small feat given their nomadic list of seven recording studios stretching from Michigan to Georgia, and the minuscule budget. There is a great tradition of the great masters writing Masses, and surely Psalters follows on that same path."
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This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 July, 2007.
