Photo: Mike Harding
Side 1 – AS QUIET AS A CAMPFIRE or ANALOGUE MOTORIC AND ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SILENCE DISTURBED BY INTUITIVE SLUMBER:
[Dedicated to John Cage] 20:42
Side 2 – MINGLING or DODEKAPHONIC DRONES INTERFERED BY KNOWN AND UNKNOWN DIGITAL PHENOMENA:
[Dedicated to Arnold Schönberg] 20:06
Originally released on limited edition vinyl February 1997 [Ash International # Ash 3.7]
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CD - 4 tracks
Track listing:
Track A: Day and Night 27:14
1. Day
2. Night
3. Alas!
Track B
4. The Sleeper in the Valley 13:32
I was approached by my old friend and Radium 226.05 colleague Ulrich Hillebrand, now director of Angered Theatre in Göteborg. He informed me that there was a new play in the process of being written by author and theorist Michael Azar called "Jag är en annan" (I is another) stemming form the famous letter written by Arthur Rimbaud in his youth. The play uses Rimbaud's life from being a young poet in Charleville ending with him being the trader in Harar, Ethiopia. Hillebrand asked me if I was willing to compose the music to this play. I accepted. I told Hillebrand that I needed to use material that had something to do with Rimbaud's life and as he had connections in Ethiopia and in the small city of Harar he said: why don't you go to Harar for 10 days and see what you can find?
So I went to Addis Ababa where a guy was waiting for me and drove me the 10 hours beautiful ride to Harar. I made recordings and looked for other useful material.