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Free Delivery (Deliverance) End​-​Time Deliverance Ministry: Catatonic (You​’​ve Been Found Out)

from The Bible in Translation (disc 2) [album] by John Harvey

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This suite of sonic essays examines aspects of an American fundamentalist deliverance ministry. The ministry is predicated upon the unorthodox belief that Christians can be inhabited by demons. The evil spirits manifest themselves in the form of physical and mental illness, spiritual and emotional afflictions, addictions and phobias, delinquency, inappropriate dispositions and attitudes, the bad fruit of ancestral iniquities passed down from one generation to another, and the inhabitation of electronic equipment.

Deliverance is achieved chiefly through prayers – spoken aloud either in English or tongues (glossolalia) – that entreat the demon to depart. The vindictive and recalcitrant entity is heard to resist eviction and, through the mouth of its host, to remonstrate angrily with the deliverer with screams and invectives before being cast out. Each demon is summoned by name, which name represents a particular infirmity that it inflicts; for example, one called ‘Catatonic’ stupefies the victim.

The source material for the essays is derived from cassette-tape recordings of church meetings and radio interviews, and also protracted services of deliverance conducted in the home with many adults and children in attendance. Recordings of hymns, either sung by believers or played on a midi keyboard, often accompany the deliverance service. ‘O, the blood of Jesus’ (the sonorous backdrop to the End-Time Deliverance Ministry’s services) serves not only to promote an atmosphere of worship but also as a powerfully active agent in the process of dispossession; demons flee when they hear it, deliverers insist. The aim of the compositions is to clarify and intensify the essence of several recordings that explore the practice of deliverance.

Catatonic (You've Been Found out)
The source recording captures the efforts of a young female deliverer and an adult male deliverer to drive out a demon named ‘Catatonic’, set against a chorus of reiterative tongues speaking. The demon, in this instance, shouts and screams its maledictions and protestations in tongues too.

Lyric
Male Deliverer and Tongues Speakers: Break that curse; Catatonic, come on up ... [repeated throughout].

Female Deliverer: You can’t run. You can’t hide; Catatonic, I call you up.

FD: You can’t run. You can’t hide; Catatonic, I call you up.

Catatonic: [glossolalic response]

FD: You can’t run. You can’t hide; Catatonic, I call you up.

C: [glossolalic response]

FD: You can’t run. You can’t hide; Catatonic, I call you up.

C: [glossolalic response]

FD: Found out! You’ve been found out!
Found out! You’ve been found out!

C: [glossolalic response]

FD: Found out! You’ve been found out!
Found out! You’ve been found out!

FD: You can’t run. You can’t hide; Catatonic, I call you up.

C: [glossolalic response]

MD: I said, ‘deal with this thing’. You gotta deal with this thing.


Personnel: Anonymous deliverance ministers, preacher, and radio broadcasters, ‘demons’, and John Harvey.

Instrumentation: Adobe Audition CS6 and Apple MacBook Pro OS X 10.8.

Source: Samples derived from recordings on the open-access online archive of the End-Time Deliverance Ministry (accessed February 2012).

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from The Bible in Translation (disc 2) [album], released September 1, 2016

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John Harvey Ceredigion, UK

I’m a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, UK. My research field is the sonic and visual culture of religion. I explore the sonic articulations of the Christian religion by engaging visual, textual, and audible sources, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic and audiovisualogical processes. ... more

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