RAGS / THE GOLDDIGGERS

Lindsay Cooper

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 1991

Songs / Tracks Listing

Rags - 1980: (42:49)
1. The Exhibition of Fashions (1:29)
2. Lots of Larks (1:05)
3. General Strike (1:48)
4. Women's Wrongs 1 (3:35)
5. Women's Wrongs 2 (3:05)
6. The Charter (1:40)
7. Parliament Catch (1:27)
8. Women's Wrongs 3 (2:30)
9. Film Music (4:21)
10. Prostitution Song (2:19)
11. 1848 (2:05)
12. The Chartist Anthem (1:19)
13. Cholera (2:35)
14. Stitch Goes the Needle (2:34)
15. A Young Lady's Vision (1:23)
16. Pin Money (0:49)
17. Women's Wrongs 4 (3:46)
18. The Song of the Shirt (4:59)

The Golddiggers - 1983: (26:23)
19. Seeing Red (2:23)
20. Iceland (4:32)
21. Celeste's Room (2:27)
22. Banker's Song (1:17)
23. The Empire Song (1:45)
24. Melodrama (3:51)
25. Perfect Clue (1:03)
26. Ruby's Gold (3:17)
27. Dawn Skyline (1:19)
28. Horse Waltz (4:29)

Total Time: 69:12

Line-up / Musicians

Rags (tracks 1 - 18):
- Georgie Born / bass, cello
- Lindsay Cooper / bassoon, soprano & sopranino saxophone, oboe, flute, keyboards, accordion, drums
- Chris Cutler / drums
- Fred Frith / guitar
- Sally Potter / vocals
- Phil Minton / vocals, trumpet

The Golddiggers (tracks 19-28):
- Lindsay Cooper / bassoon, alto & sopranino saxophone, oboe, piano
- Georgie Born / cello, guitar, bass
- Marilyn Mazur / drums, percussion, marimba
- Kate Westbrook / tenor horns
- Eleanor Sloan / violin

Releases information

CD ReR Megacorp R�R LCD (1991 UK)

Rags originally appeared on LP R�/arc.
The Golddiggers on LP Sync Pulse 0617.

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and to The Bearded Bard for the last updates
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5 stars Even though this is for those that seek out quite unique, and to some strange, this album is a miracle to own if you love the quaint, slightly RIO, slightly theatre style. And a cast of the best at the genre. Lindsay Cooper - does anyone know how her health is? - is so talented, both writing an ... (read more)

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