Artist: 
Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens

L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S. (2LP)

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Perhaps best-known for his distinctive vocal style, Australian polymath Nick Cave here steps into the spotlight as librettist rather than performer, for a second operatic project with Belgian composer Nicholas Lens. Having collaborated on Shell Shock in 2014, they joined forces again during the global lockdown to create a new work, L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.. At Lens’s request, Cave penned 12 litanies – “petitions to a divine maker” – simple, moving texts which the composer then wove into what he calls a “modest chamber opera of sleeping dreams”.

Tracklist

# Title Length
1 Litany of Divine Absence 5:30
2 Litany of the First Encounter 4:49
# Title Length
1 Litany of Blooming 5:43
2 Litany of the Sleeping Dream 6:26
3 Litany of the Yearning 5:04
# Title Length
1 Litany of Fragmentation 6:19
2 Litany of the Forsaken 3:46
3 Litany of Gathering Up 4:11
4 Litany of Transformation 5:23
# Title Length
1 Litany of Godly Love 4:45
2 Litany of the Unnamed 5:21
3 Litany of Divine Presence 5:25