Lewis Carroll Mixes, Vol. 2
1 Chapter 23: An Outlandish Watch
2 Chapter 24: The Frogs' Birthday-Treat
3 Chapter 25: Looking Eastward
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For the second volume in this series, I put a few extra hours into preparing a few loops and "solo" material. Especially the first two parts feature some intricate detail-work and delicate juxtapositions. "The Frogs' Birthday-Treat" is indeed a rather playful treat, with its meandering xylophone and electronic beats & bleeps in the middle section. In "Looking Eastward", I let the single tracks play out more for themselves, dissolving into a calm and peaceful end.
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Featured artists and musical sources
Nick Drake, a musical clockwork, Markus Guentner, John Cage, Klaus Schulze, Rhythm and Sound, Burial, FOEhN, Sibil (Alonso & Bartomeu Carceres), more John Cage, Joanna Newsom, Jacques Dudon, Tanzania: Wagogo Entertainment Music, komet, The Penguin Café Orchestra, Jacula, This Heat, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Conrad Schnitzler, FOEhN, Syd Barrett, Alia Musica/Miguel Sanchez (Bestiario De Cristo)
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Nick Drake, a musical clockwork, Markus Guentner, John Cage, Klaus Schulze, Rhythm and Sound, Burial, FOEhN, Sibil (Alonso & Bartomeu Carceres), more John Cage, Joanna Newsom, Jacques Dudon, Tanzania: Wagogo Entertainment Music, komet, The Penguin Café Orchestra, Jacula, This Heat, Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Conrad Schnitzler, FOEhN, Syd Barrett, Alia Musica/Miguel Sanchez (Bestiario De Cristo)
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"Aye, look Eastward! ... The West is the fitting tomb for all the sorrow and the sighing, all the errors and the follies of the Past: for all its withered Hopes and all its buried Loves! From the East comes new strength, new ambition, new Hope, new Life, new Love! Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!"
His last words were still ringing in my ears as I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day.
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"Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith--the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!"
"Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!"
from: "Sylvie and Bruno" by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 25 (conclusion)
