The Music of Erich Zann, by Half Deaf Clatch

The Music of Erich Zann

by Half Deaf Clatch

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Carsten Pieper After "The Devil and Tom Walker" Clatchie did it again, another short story, dark and somber again, no surprises there, set to music. Well done again!

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It's Bandcamp Friday, so here's another special release. A 24 minute, one song musical adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's classic short story 'The Music of Erich Zann'.

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Home produced CDr, with a cover printed on recycled art card in a plastic wallet. Comes with a full colour four panel A5 lyric card, and a signed and numbered A5 print*. Limited to just 50 copies.

*The print includes a picture drawn by Andrew Brosnatch for Weird Tales in May, 1925. This artwork is in the Public Domain.

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'The Music of Erich Zann' is one of my favourite short stories by H.P Lovecraft, and I've been wanting to do a musical adaptation for a long while now. This EP started out as a few short atmospheric instrumentals, but very quickly turned into a full blown musical work with lots of lyrics!
The words are an abridged version of the story and detail the salient points, rather than providing a blow by blow account, if you haven't read the actual story I highly recommend it.

I kept the instrumentation relatively simple, just an acoustic guitar, electric cello, pipe organ, percussion and atmospheric soundscapes. The majority of the sounds are made by acoustic or electro-acoustic instruments, the electric cello was played through an Orange 'Crush' acoustic amp and EHX Soul Food pedal, any 'otherworldly' effects were created with instruments put through octavers and auto filters.

In the original story Lovecraft says that Eric Zann plays a 'viol', it is widely accepted that he meant a viol da gamba, a Baroque era instrument which closely resembles the cello, but has five to seven strings, and frets. Since these are rare and very expensive, I obviously decided to use my electric cello for this EP, as buying a viol da gamba seemed an unnecessary extravagance.

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released February 2, 2024

All music (and lyrics adapted from the story) written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by A D McLatchie

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Independent label for the recording projects of Andrew McLatchie (aka Half Deaf Clatch). Slightly strange musicianer. Eleven Time British Blues Award Finalist 2013 - 2016
Six Time UK Blues Award Finalist 2018 - 2022

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