Banjo of Death Sleeping by William Harper

The Banjo of Death Sleeping
an electracoustic triptych
by William Harper

The Banjo of Death Sleeping
BirdGirls with Rachel Slusarcyzk
The Gallowing Sea
Available June 2002 on AMAZON.COM

Look homeward angel
I just listened to your CD. What a trip. I loved it! I listened on headphones so the sound was right inside my head. The waves at the end seemed to go THROUGH my head. All the technique of the sound was very present and doing a kind of dance with the ancient feel of much of the music. So it seems like it's jumping around by centuries - no, eons - hillbilly banjo to medieval Arab song to cut-up 21st century computer music to 5,000 year old clan chant that is made out of cut-up 21st century computer music that becomes the background for "if I had the wings . . " so nice. This is not at all the kind of thing I ever listen to these days and it was so refreshing to get into such an evocative music. Gerald Shapiro, Brown University
Banjo of Death Sleeping Music
Banjo of Death Poster

The Banjo of Death Sleeping

The Banjo of Death Sleeping
1. The Banjo of Death Sleeping
2. Chickalaleeoh
3. RiverWeeds
4. OwlWalk
5. The Banjo of Death Sleeping
6. Sleeper's Wake

BirdGirls
7. Tecmessa
8. Prairie's Boy
9. Wings of a Dove
10. BirdGirls
11. Chicalaleeoh

The Gallowing Sea
12. The Gallowing sea
13. Building the Scaffold
14. Hymnosis
15. The Sea