The National to release six-hour ’Sorrow’ performance as vinyl box set

The National have announced the release of their “durational performance” with Ragnar Kjartansson as a vinyl box set.

Titled, ‘A Lot of Sorrow’, the limited edition 9xLP boxer captures the band’s six-hour performance of ‘High Violet’ track ‘Sorrow’ at New York’s Museum of Modern Art session in 2013. ‘A Lot of Sorrow’ will be released on 22nd June via 4AD.

Proceeds from the box set’s sales will be donated to Partners In Health, a non-profit health care charity, whose aim is “to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair”.

Pre-orders for ‘A Lot of Sorrow’ are available through the project’s website, as well as footage from the 2013 performance.

Watch The National perform ‘Sorrow’ one of many, many times at New York’s MoMA, below: