The Medusa Frequency, by Mike Dickinson

The Medusa Frequency

by Mike Dickinson

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"An inexplicable message flashed onto the screen of his Apple II computer at 3 a.m. heralds the beginning of a startling quest for frustrated author Herman Orff. Taking up the offer of a cure for writer's block leads him 'to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own' - and plunges him into a semi-dreamland inhabited by a bizarre combination of characters from myth and reality: the talking head of Orpheus; a lost love; the young girl of Vermeer's famous portrait - and a frequency of Medusas."

The Medusa Frequency By Russell Hoban was first published in 1987 and is a wonderful baroque portrait of London of the time.
It spits and fizzes with surrealism and humour, both grand and guttural.

The story is one of obsession, passion, frailty, and loss.
It's a narrative that tells of an author of a certain age with an obsessional nature and a severe case of writer's block surrounding
his difficult third novel.

Well... This is my difficult third album and its a bit of a departure for me from my usual fare but here it is.

Hope it takes you to those places in your head that you can't get to on your own.

Track list:

Part One:

Euridice and The Squid.
Radio Free Kraken.
Hermes Soundways.
Orpheus is a Lyre
The Thinking Man's Cabbage.
November Darkness and Hibiscus Lamplight.
Euridice and The Birth of The Terror.

Part Two:

Cheshire Cheese (Reprise).
Kom En Vind Me.
Topographies of Emptiness.
Girl Becomes Gone.
Still 3 O'clock in The Morning.
The Adventures of Captain Pituitary and The Search for The Lost Mothercode.
No More Klage.

© Mike Dickinson October 2021

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released October 26, 2021

Russell Hoban (of course!)
www.russellhoban.org

A big thank you to my friend Peter (who introduced me to the works of Russell on my many trips to the capital).
peterheselton.bandcamp.com

A big shout out goes to:

DJ SpaceTerrapin
@GehegeDrei
www.mixcloud.com/SpaceTerrapin/

Gavin - The Metamorph @TheMetamorphUK themetamorph.bandcamp.com

(For their ever continuing support and encouragement).

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Electronic noodling and faffing from the northeast of England.
Oh and guitar... less often...
But somethings... Sometime.

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