Title: Black Lodge
Artist: David T. Little
Label: Cantaloupe
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 713746318628
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2023-07-21
Number of Discs: 1
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making in search of escape. This is the premise of composer David T. Little and poet Anne Waldman's Black Lodge - a multilayered modern opera that draws on the complex mythologies surrounding artists like William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), David Lynch (Twin Peaks), and more. A journey into Hell and back, Black Lodge fuses industrial metal and punk with classical string quartet and opera to create something wildly vivid and new.
Tracks:
1.1 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: I. Magic Pain (Verdun, 1916)
1.2 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: II. Electric Cerberus (Rodez, 1945)
1.3 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: III. Punishment Deserved (Tangiers, 1958)
1.4 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: IV. My Childhood (Spokane, 1950)
1.5 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: V. The Hungry Ghost Who Sings in Lamentation (Zurich, 1916)
1.6 Black Lodge~Part One: The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms: VI. The Strange Light in the Lodge (Boulder, 2021)
1.7 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: VII. Premonition of the Worm (Philadelphia, 1964)
1.8 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: VIII. You find a severed ear in a field (Lumberton, 1986)
1.9 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: IX. Petrograd (New York, 1966)
1.10 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: X. Here, my severed digit (Part 1) (Cambridge, 1939)
1.11 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: XI. Here, my severed digit (Part 2) (Mexico City, 1951)
1.12 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: XII. The Warring Gods (all places, all times)
1.13 Black Lodge~Part Two: The Animal, Human, and Demigod Realms: XIII. A Theory of Puncture (Blairstown, 1986)
1.14 Black Lodge~Part Three: The God Realm of the Shamans: XIV. Introduction
1.15 Black Lodge~Part Three: The God Realm of the Shamans: XV. Old Shaman on the Wheel (Ivry-sur-Seine, 1948)
1.16 Black Lodge~Part Three: The God Realm of the Shamans: XVI. Coming at You Through Frames of Sleep (Ivry-sur-Seine, 1948)