Gormenghast: The Rock Opera

Dan Parmenter · 02 Jul 2001, 17:14 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Dan Parmenter <dan at lec.com>
Subject: (urth) Gormenghast: The Rock Opera
Date: 02 Jul 2001 17:14:11
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Disclaimer:

I haven't yet read Gormenghast, though it's "on the list".

I didn't watch the TV show yet because I prefer to read things before
I see any film/TV adaptation and I figure it won't be too hard to
track down a copy of the film when I do finally read the book.

But I wanted to alert the truly curious to another adaptation of
Gormenghast, namely the "rock opera" version.  The sample tracks I
downloaded didn't do a thing for me, although the composer, Irmin
Schmidt, is a musician I very much admire as one of the founders of
the seventies-era German rock band CAN, which this stuff sounds
nothing like at all!

Go to:

http://www.spoonrecords.com/

And follow the Gormenghast links for information and downloadable
extracts.

Dan

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