Archive release

Gododdin

Test Dept. / Brith Gof · 1989 · Vinyl-12" · GB · MOP4

Based on the music from the theatre performance "Gododdin". Initial copies includes a 24-page booklet with details on the various European performances, including sketches and photos from some of the performances. Normal edition with printed innersleeve. Tracks are numbered from 1. to 7.. [Subtitles from back sleeve:] Track 1: 'Serpent with the terrible sting' - entry of the warriors Track 2: 'Men went to Carraeth with the dawn' - prologue Track 3: 'Quicker to the field of blood than to a wedding Quicker to a ravens' feast than to a burial' - heroic society Track 4: 'Fresh mead was their drink and was bitter' - bersekin Track 5: 'Three hundred, gold orqued warriors Walkie, splendid in action' - journey Track 6: 'How sword resounded in the heads of mothers' - battle Track 7: 'It is grief to me after toil ... To have seen our men fall eadlong' - lament [On back sleeve:] ℗ TEST DEPT/Ministry of Power ©1989 TEST DEPT/MCPS Recorded at, Big Sky, Jacobs, Music Factory, Orinoco, Workhouse studios Distributed by Rough Trade and the Cartel Designed at The Design Stage, Cardiff Bay. Front cover: Colour treatment by The Design Stage. Back cover: Gododdin at the Festival Inteatro, Polverigi, Italy, July 1989. Made in Wales and England [On inner sleeve:] Made in Wales and England. [On labels:] ℗ TEST DEPT/Ministry of Power ©1989 TEST DEPT/MCPS Made in Wales and England.