(urth) making Wolfe-inspired music

Daniel Slatkin palundrium at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 22:44:08 PST 2008


Since we're all sharing music relating to Gene Wolfe, I take it
everybody's seen this video now? Searched urth.net but only saw a
little discussion on the song itself when it was released several
years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY0dCmAyNM

Daniel

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Tim Walters <walters at doubtfulpalace.com> wrote:
> I hereby volunteer to compile and master the tracks, and host them on my
> site if that's what we want to do.
>
> Probably the highest-profile Wolfe-related piece of music already extant is
> "Row, Brothers, Row" by the Turtle Island String Quartet, from their album
> BY THE FIRESIDE (yes, a Christmas album; no, I don't know what it has to do
> with Christmas). Except for a short generic "jazzy" section in the middle it
> hits the folky-but-exotic tone of an Urth work song quite well.
>
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