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 XII – Can we have our ball back?

Although the story of the Epic concludes with Tablet XI, incredibly the Epic of Gilgamesh comes with a built-in encore / hidden track.

At the beginning, revealed through the only exchange of spoken dialogue in the entire show, Gilgamesh bemoans that his ball has fallen through a crack and down into the Underworld, and asks who will go get it back for him. Enkidu volunteers, and Gilgamesh expresses surprise at Enkidu not being dead. But with that taken care of, they agree that Enkidu will go retrieve the lost item. (Different translations call the lost object a ball, a drum, or a harp, so we have a bit of fun with that in the dialogue.)

Gilgamesh gives Enkidu a list of rules to follow to ensure that he will be able to leave the Underworld once he has entered – don’t take a weapon, don’t wear bright clothes, don’t act happy, don’t sing or dance, etc. Enkidu takes all this in, but then proceeds to the Underworld and does all the things he was told not to do. As a result, the Underworld keeps him.

Gilgamesh is bereft at losing his best friend a second time, and appeals to the gods in turn to help him. Most refuse, but Shamash, with encouragement from Ea, agrees to help. He blasts a crack into the ground, and Enkidu’s ghost leaps out, thanking them for getting him out of such a horrible place. 

Finally, Gilgamesh asks his friend what he has learned about the final fate of mortals.

Enkidu relates that those who have made the most of life find an easier death, and that the happiest in the afterlife were those who had forged strong friendships and family relations, and done fine deeds to be remembered by. 


Tablet XII - Can we have our ball back?

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 XII - Can we have our ball back?

The Heavy Unknown

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