"When I Am Dead" [Jeff Kelly]

"When I Am Dead" [Jeff Kelly]

First line of lyrics: When I am dead, my dearest

Kelly, Jeff; music (American)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

2000 [publication]

Virginia: St. Brigid Publishing

genre: song

origin: United States

female composer|male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Song" ("When I am dead, my dearest")

Recordings: "When I Am Dead." Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, performance by The Goblin Market (Laura Weller, vocals and Jeff Kelly), Camera Obscura Records, Australia, 2001. BandCamp, released 20 June 2010, https://thegoblinmarket.bandcamp.com/track/when-i-am-dead. Accessed 23 Jul. 2021.

Notes: Review of the album: "Ghostland crackles with the same morbid Pre-Raphaelite sexual static one imagines buzzed from Christina Rossetti's stockings." - Steward Lee, The London Sunday Times (The Goblin Market). The album also contains a song entitled "Song for Christina" (Track 8).

Format 1: sound recording

performance time 2 minutes and 48 seconds

Other data reference(s): The Goblin Market. "Ghostland." bandcamp, https://thegoblinmarket.bandcamp.com/album/ghostland. Accessed 23 Jul. 2021.
The Goblin Market. "Ghostland by the Goblin Market." Facebook, posted 3 Apr. 2016, https://www.facebook.com/The-Goblin-Market-974683209252776/

Cataloguer: Stephanie Malette and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-songwheniamdead-weller-kelly

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