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    The Song Company - Burden of Truth: 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Gatefold 12" Transparent Red Vinyl LP Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet + Antony Pitts' Transiens

    • The Song Company - Burden of Truth: 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Gatefold 12" Transparent Red Vinyl LP – Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
    • The Song Company - Burden of Truth: 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Gatefold 12" Transparent Red Vinyl LP – Transiens
    • 1. Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
    • 2. Transiens

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    500 copies only in the world! Superb hypnotic leftfield vocal modern classical LP - exclusive to Sounds of the Universe. Very limited copies!

    Specially mastered and pressed on transparent red vinyl in the 50th anniversary year of Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet with the world première recording of its choral a cappella version, alongside the world première recording of Antony Pitts's 25-part motet, Transiens, based on music by Robert Wylkynson from the Eton Choirbook. This Limited Edition Gatefold LP includes an 8-page booklet.

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