This false world
“Our plesance here is all vain glory,This fals world is but transitory,The flesh is bruckle, the Feynd is slee:— Timor Mortis conturbat me.”(William Dunbar, Lament for the Makers)
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“This False World” is a posthumous collaboration between composer David Douglas Thompson and poet C.S. Thompson.My father, David Douglas Thompson, was a brilliant composer of dark ambient, neoclassical and occasionally even EBM-inspired electronic music. We often discussed the possibility of a collaboration, and after he passed away in October 2006, I began to put this project together, using selections from his final album “Whom the Gods Would Destroy,” as well as pieces from his earlier albums. Combining these with selections from my own poetry and slideshows of paintings by William Blake and Henry Fuseli, I created the following videos.
Earthbound SpiritsSpartaGnosisAgnosiaThe Terrible and Fascinating MysteryThe TravellerFreedom
