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

Tablet VII – House of Dust

Enkidu awakens and tells Gilgamesh of a dream he’s just had, wherein a Council of Gods decided that one of them would have to die to atone for killing the Bull and Humbaba etc., and they had decided it would be Enkidu. Enkidu realises that, although it was only a dream, he’s genuinely feeling quite ill, and is certain he is not long for the world. He suggests they take a walk through Uruk, to revisit the places they’ve known before it's too late.

When he sees the door of the Temple of Enlil, he becomes bitter, and rages about his sad lot and how he has come to this end. He curses the Trapper who first told Gilgamesh of his presence, and curses Shamhat the harlot for bringing him to civilisation. 

Shamash is then heard as he upbraids Enkidu for cursing Shamhat, reminding him that without her he would have done none of the great things he has done, and would never have met his treasured friend Gilgamesh. Enkidu recants, and blesses Shamhat, wishing her all good things.

As he nears his end, Enkidu relates another dream he’s had, about being dragged into the underworld, which is a House of Dust, where people drink dirt, eat clay, and dress in the feathers of birds, and those who were kings in the mortal world now wait on the gods as servants.

As he’s about to die, Enkidu bemoans that during his final 11 days, Gilgamesh has left his side, making him feel abandoned and alone; however, Gilgamesh arrives to comfort him just as Enkidu passes away.

Tablet VII - House of Dust

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 VII - House of Dust

The Heavy Unknown

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