The fifth in this series of dark ambient/narrative recordings, A Missa do Gallo, is a provocative enigma. A young student eagerly awaits to witness midnight mass in Rio de Janeiro for the first time. As he waits at his uncle's home, he becomes engaged in a conversation with the mistress of the house whose intentions are acute but ambiguous. De

The fifth in this series of dark ambient/narrative recordings, A Missa do Gallo, is a provocative enigma. A young student eagerly awaits to witness midnight mass in Rio de Janeiro for the first time. As he waits at his uncle's home, he becomes engaged in a conversation with the mistress of the house whose intentions are acute but ambiguous. De Assis' softly surrealistic tale of unspoken intimations is reminiscent and fleeting, a capsule in time.
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Produced by Anorak Arts
Narration/instruments by Deckard Croix
Written by Jaoquim Maria Machado de Assis
Originally published in 1899
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Robin Patterson
Artwork by Juan Martinez

The third entry in this spoken word/ambient series is H.P. Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann. The story follows a university student who takes up rooms at an old tenement on the mysterious Rue d'Auseil. On the top floor of this building lives Erich Zann, a German viol player whose bizarre melodies lure the young student to determine their

The third entry in this spoken word/ambient series is H.P. Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann. The story follows a university student who takes up rooms at an old tenement on the mysterious Rue d'Auseil. On the top floor of this building lives Erich Zann, a German viol player whose bizarre melodies lure the young student to determine their purpose.