Soft Music and Soothing Words

I’ll be on vacation for two weeks from this afternoon, and, although I won’t be off-line the whole time, I do intend to take a break from this journal until ca. the 21st.

Until then, I leave you with some soft music and soothing words.

The music features samples from two pieces of music I’ve written about in earlier entries here, Valentin Silvestrov’s Kitsch-Musik, and Vladimir Martynov’s Come In!

The words are by Thomas Ligotti, also the subject of a recent entry, and are taken from a CD of spoken-word pieces, accompanied by guitar-and-synth backing-tracks composed by the author, which was supplied with the Crampton book. The CD is entitled The Unholy City, and the track I’ve excerpted here Welcome to the Unholy City. It strikes me as more a brave attempt than an entirely successful endeavour. What other authors, I wonder, might try their hands at such a thing?