Lindsay Cooper – Rags (1980)/The Golddiggers (1983)

"A two-CD collection called Songs From the Bridge, which included these and other works; it was issued in 1998. Cooper’s last major work was the haunting and harrowing Sahara Dust, in collaboration with Australian singer/writer/director Robyn Archer. Sahara Dust is a meditation on the Gulf War. ... The interplay between Minton’s voice singing and ringing out the poetry with the hypnotic winds, reeds, piano, and electronics is almost unbearable in its import. Yet it is so seductive the listener cannot help but to draw nearer the sound."
The Undercoverman, YouTube - Melodrama (1983 The Gold Diggers UK Canterbury Avant RIO Prog Henry Cow), The Golddiggers 3 - Celeste's Room (1983), The hanging garden, Assasination Waltz, Women's Wrongs 2 (1980)

December 2009: Lindsay Cooper