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Music From Elsewhere
These musical curiosities are taken from Doug Skinner’s book ‘Music From Elsewhere‘, published by Strange Attractor Press in 2024.
They include tunes attributed to fairies, banshees, trowies, trolls, aliens, spirits, and time slips, as well as examples of musical ciphers, notations of natural sounds, occult music, and music from dreams. They’re meant as examples for the book, and might be perplexing without it.
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.