I can hear the Beach boys and 10cc on this as well as your own style

From 'The Books' - Music for a French Elevator and Other Oddities

A two LP 45 track collection of B-sides, soundtracks, and altered-found treasures from 'The Books' from 2001 to 2012.

'Hericlitus' was a track we made on North St. in North Adams, MA as part of a documentary film score, about the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona.  It was made to accompany a boat building scene.  The film was never released.

Now available at Temporary Residence http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr206

Hericlitus

From 'The Books' - Music for a French Elevator and Other Oddities

A two LP 45 track collection of B-sides, soundtracks, and altered-found treasures from 'The Books' from 2001 to 2012.

'Epilogue'  was made for the final scene in a documentary film about the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona.  The scene is about eventually leaving the planet Earth.

Now available at Temporary Residence http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr206

Epilogue

The stage darkens and the gauze descends. Projected onto it are the words: “Tablet II – Drink the beer, as is the custom of the land”. Chirping crickets can be heard as the sky turns slowly into a new day. SHAMHAT and ENKIDU stand and as she sings he stretches himself awake, his posture becoming much more upright and human than before. 

SHAMHAT: “Wake up, Enkidu…  

As SHAMHAT sings her song a group of cast members arrive on stage dressed as SHEPHERDS. Like all Shepherds at this time of the morning they are visibly quite drunk and swig heartily from skins of ale. ENKIDU approaches them and is offered bread and beer, which he takes enthusiastically. As he downs skin after skin of beer the rowdy Shepherds goad him on.

ENKIDU: (with SHEPHERDS backing)  “Well, I’ve had my first taste of bread today…
Now dressed in a borrowed Shepherd cloak and brandishing a Shepherd Knife, Enkidu’s attention is grabbed by a WEDDING GUEST who scurries on to the stage from the left. The guest is carrying a large platter of tasty looking Fancy Things…
ENKIDU : “Heyayayayay…
Enkidu strides off in earnest in the direction that everyone points too and the gauze projection shows the scrolling image of the mighty City Walls of URUK HAVEN.
PERSON OF URUK #1  “He's as mighty as they come…
 ENKIDU stands his ground, arms folded to block GILGAMESH’S way. A stand-off ensues and as they exchange words they move back and forth across the stage…  
Gilgamesh:   “Out of the way, stranger…
 The gauze descends and the bright back lights, flashing in time to the beat, shows the pair in silhouette.  They begin an elegant, slow-motion street fight.  Eventually as the last beats of the kick drum play out, the figures exchange their final blows. As the gauze retracts the fight ends in deadlock and they crumple exhausted to the floor. 
ENKIDU:  “Well you bested me this time…  
Instantly reconciled, they end their song dancing around arm in arm, embracing each other as equals and brothers. 
GILGAMESH:  “So, dude, you were out in the wilderness for lots of years…  



Tablet II - Drink the beer, as is the custom of the land

String Quartet "C-Dur"

These Things Are Killing Me

Oh Brother

Falling Down Stairs

1st Demo 1991

Shock Corridor
Asylum
Losing
Human Impossibility
CHM
Untimely Demise
Purified

Void (Demo)

Fuzed - Void 1991

2nd ever gig in Thornton Social Club Thu 7th Nov 1991
Supporting Dr Bone 

Losing
ARH
Act of God
Shock Corridor
Skitzed
Untimely Demise
Fallen Angels
Got the Time (With Ghandi on Vocals)
? Mirror Image ?
Seek & Destroy (With Ghandi on Vocals)
Crazy Homicidal Man

Live At Thornton Social Club 1991

Lost (Fuzed)- Live At Thornton Social Club 07-11-1991

Fuzed - Horror (1992)

Bleeding Hatred
Distorted Faith
Shattered
Asylum
UntimelyDemise
Horror

Horror (Demo)

Fuzed - Horror 1992

A cover of the Beatles classic I recorded back in 1996 for the rec.music.beatles first tribute album, Let It R.M.B.

I'm Only Sleeping - Beatles cover

The hirundu & Mysti Cinsect (collectively The Heavy Unknown) have got together and composed a contemporary retelling of the millennia-old Sumerian epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh.

The proposed stage show would take the form of a "live concept album" - with a live band telling the story in 12 sections, each one corresponding to the 12 stone tablets on which the Epic was originally discovered. 

In the likely event that the full-scale stage production is not do-able in the realistic future, the fallback (still ambitious) intent is a film/video, whether partially or entirely animated, or live action of some form.

If you like what you hear or want to know more then by all means get in touch!

Tablet II - Drink the beer, as is the custom of the land

The Heavy Unknown

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