Usher

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Release Date: 2001

Label: Taghairm Arts

This is the Cd version of the infamous Lesley Eleanor Boyce - Wilkinson - Usher that painter, sculptor, multimedia artist, photographer Lesley Eleanor Boyce - Wilkinson did as part of her thesis and is an on-stage projection as part of a multi-media creation designed for theatre. Usher is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher and is inspired and informed by the Butoh genre and its founding father Hijikata Tatsumi.
Concept, Production: Eleanor Boyce
Animation ("the director"): Mark Thomas
Music: Eleanor Boyce and Lorenz Penkler with Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows
Copyright Taghairm Arts 2001. All rights reserved. Copying and Unauthorised showing is prohibited.

The Sopor Aeternus songs are merely extracts from the Inexperienced Spiral Traveler interwoven with noises and soundscapes.

This cd is limited to 100 copies

By her own words "The recording wasn't really ever meant to be a 'stand alone' music cd, but a live performance soundscore, an element of the USHER whole. I'm not even sure whether you could even count it as a "release""

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