Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, and Other Curious Sources
By Doug Skinner
£20.00 / £30.00
272 pages, 2-colour
Heavily illustrated, with 112 pages of musical scores
ISBN: 9781913689216
Available from 8 September as a paperback with flaps, or in a limited hardback edition of 300 copies, with a bookplate signed by the author.
All orders through our web site will receive a free MP3 album featuring recordings of some of the otherworldly music documented in Music From Elsewhere. These pieces have been performed by Doug Skinner – voice, piano (real and electronic), electronic organ, psaltery, sopranino recorder and chord zither – and produced by Brian Dewan.
A cacophonous cabinet of curiosities, gathering other musics channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
Compiled by musician, historian and archivist Doug Skinner, this unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and examines, music from other worlds. Notation is also included for several tunes so that you can play along at home.
Over eight themed essays you’ll find tunes hummed, strummed, and sung by spirits, sprites and fairies, extraterrestrial elevator music, dreamed ditties, marches for occult ceremonies, secret musical codes and languages, music made by animals, and more.
About the Author
Doug Skinner has contributed to The Fortean Times, Cabinet, Fate, Weirdo, Nickelodeon, and other periodicals. In addition to his books of stories, comics, music, and translations of Alphonse Allais, Charles Cros, and Alfred Jarry, he has written many scores for dance and theater, most conspicuously for Bill Irwin’s The Regard of Flight, which toured for decades. TV and movie appearances include Ed, Crocodile Dundee II, several of George Kuchar’s videos, and a smattering of commercials.
