Written during the Gulf War One, the piece Sahara Dust looks at a contracting and increasingly chaotic world, where people can wake up to find Sahara dust (rain bear- ing particles of sand from the Sahara desert) on their doorstep and see distant conflicts on their televisions.
«This is not a time to undervalue the despair and infinite hope of small private, day to day things; we can trace the vein of a leaf or fly over vast landscapes, but what we carry with us depends on our entire personal history,» write Lindsay Cooper. The British composer Lindsay Cooper concentrated par- ticularly on collaborations involving text, film, dance or theatre as in the piece The Gold Diggers (with Sally Pot- ter) or The Song of the Shirt. The text for Sahara Dust was written by the Australian singer/writer/director Robyn Archer, with whom Lindsay Cooper has in the past collaborated on songs, concerts, radio cabaret pro- gramms and theater productions.

Engineer: Peter Pfister
Cover art: Plly Betram, Alberto Vieceli
Photo: Silvia Luckner

Compositions by Lindsay Cooper. Lyrics by Robin Archer. Recorded August 3-5, 1992, Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland. Executive production: Rosmarie A. Meier. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt