Pillars And Tongues

Pillars and Tongues: Protection

by John Dworkin
November 20, 2008

Pillars and Tongues Protection Contraphonic 2008

After listening through Pillars And Tongues' Protection, the listener may be left with the feeling of having attended a new style, post-religion Mass with liturgical forms composed by Tom Waits, John Fahey and Arvo Part. Old rituals are transformed and making art replaces the act of prayer. In fact, Protection was performed at South Union Arts (Gethsemane Baptist)--an old church in Chicago converted into an art ...