Day Trips for Nihilists

On Emptiness


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A generally uplifting audio essay on emptiness and its consolations...ideal for day-tripping nihilists, naturally.


Tracklist:


  • Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band — Anchin Kfu Ayinkash
  • GF Haas - Concerto Grosso No. 2 for ensemble and orchestra
  • TS Eliiot reading an excerpt from 'Burnt Norton' from his Four Quartets
  • Vilhelm Hammershoi, 'Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor'
  • Excerpt from GF Haas - Traum in des Sommers Nacht for orchestra
  • Franz Kafka quote
  • John Fahey - Yes Jesus Loves Me
  • Excerpt from GF Haas - Traum in des Sommers Nacht for orchestra
  • Django Reinhardt - Manoir De Mes Rêves
  • Virginia Woolf, excerpt from 'Time Passes', To The Lighthouse (1927)
  • Philip Larkin reading his poem 'Home is so sad'
  • Beethoven performed by the Busch Quartet - String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 127: II. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile
  • Hamlet soliloquy - I have of late but wherefore I know not... from Withnail & I (1987)
  • Macbeth - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow soliloquy - Orson Welles (1948)
  • GF Haas - String Quartet No. 2 (1998)
  • Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band — Anchin Kfu Ayinkash


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Day Trips for NihilistsBy Neil Fitzgerald