"I was expecting something dark... and it is, but it is more..."
Abominations of Yondo is a collaboration between Cousin Silas (releases on Earth Monkey, Fflint Central and Earthrid) and Kevin Busby (of Carya Amara, Audio Space Research etc.). Their album, also called Abominations of Yondo, is a collection of other-worldly music, sounds and atmospheres inspired by the writings of Clark Ashton Smith.
Available on CD and as free MP3s
Abominations of Yondo can be ordered direct from Earthrid on a carefully prepared CD or if you prefer to keep MP3s on your hard drive than have a CD on your shelf, you can download the audio, free, from the Internet Archive.
A writer of Weird Tales...
Clark Ashton Smith wrote ornately worded tales of fantasy, mostly during the 1930s. Much of his work was originally published in the influential "pulp" fiction magazine Weird Tales, and he shared some themes and mythologies with his correspondent and fellow teller of weird tales, H. P. Lovecraft (himself the subject of a track on the Cousin Silas album Necropolis Line, released on Earthrid).
Smith's stories ranged in location from deserts concealing bizarre abominations to distant planets, and in temporal setting from the ancient continent of Hyperborea to Zothique, the last remaining land of a far future age. You can find out more about his work at the excellent Web site called The Eldritch Dark. However, you don't need to have read Smith's work to get the best out of the music - as you listen, your own imagination will guide you...
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Format: CDR, 52 minutes - also available as free MP3s.
File under "Gnydronic folk".
 CD available direct from our store.
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