Exit Music For … A Book
News posted Wednesday, January 21 2009 at 12:00 AM.
Related: The Church.
In what can be described as either a new dawn in the conflux of music and literature, or the most pretentious idea ever – we’ll let you decide – The Church have written the first ever* soundtrack to a book.
Shriek: Excerpts From The Soundtrack features “atmospheric and sometimes stark” music by the Australian rock icons with lyrics taken from a new work by American science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer. According to the presser, “the two go together like some archaic crime, wild dark and visceral, a reactionary improvisation, a collision between book and band”.
The CD will be available in Australia from the Church’s website or at shows while stocks last.
* we think
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Yes but The Church have always done pretentious so well.
Awesome. My comment gets to go at the top.
Oh fuck. Thanks bollocks, another dream shattered.
and the asterisk?
Didn't Hawkwind do some songs by Michael Moorcock, the British sci-fi writer, which may have been based on his books?
sorry toady.
Yep, from wikipedia: ''Moorcock collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind on many occasions: The Hawkwind track ''The Black Corridor,'' for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time. Moorcock also penned the lyrics to ''Sonic Attack,'' a Sci-Fi send-up of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind's Space Ritual set. Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. Moorcock appeared on stage with the band occasionally during the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of the Live Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, due to legal reasons but has subsequently appeared on some double CD versions. He can also be seen performing on the DVD version of Chronicle of the Black Sword.''
I have a record by ''Michael Moorcock and Deep Fix'', featuring members of Hawkwind and Snowy White from the extended Pink Floyd family.
It is shit.
Mike Nesmith did a novel with record thing called ''The Prison'', didn't he?
That's all I got.
Doesn't hurt to do some research!
Alan Moore collaborated with a bloke whose name I forget at the moment (Tim somebody?) to do a couple of weirdy CDs. One on Blake, I seem to remember.
Tim Perkins. That's it. Not so bad as I recall. Review here.
There is also a ''soundtrack'' CD for Tim Winton's Dirt Music - although it is a compilation rather than 'specially composed incidental music.
WHEN ARTOO MAKES A NOISE YOU HAVE TO TURN THE PAGE
''Rock Reflections of a Superhero''
AWESOME name! If I ever make an album, that shall be the title.
Note also that the typography on the word ''ROCK'' rocks harder than the surrounding words.
I had the Star Trek ones. It's worth it just to hear Shatner yell
''YOU KLINGON MONSTER... YOU'VE KILLED! MY! SON!''
Total class.
rock reflections of a superhero is amazing, some blog had it for download once.
Steve Kilbey's Earthed album was a soundtrack for his first book
Don't forget The KLF.
All of their names (ie. The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu) were based on a weird sci-fi novel.
I will give a gold star to anybody who tells me the name of the book.
Isn't it Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! stuff, timewaster?