Tenebrae-The Garden of Earthly Delights

by Jim Kirkwood

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Niall Holohan Been looking for these for ages, glad they're available on Bandcamp now. I really love the opening sequence on track two! Outstanding! Favorite track: The Garden of Earthly Delights Pt2.

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	1.	The Garden of Earthly Delights Pt1 01:00:00		buy track
	2.	The Garden of Earthly Delights Pt2 56:52		buy track

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This Project, which I began in 2011, came as a complete surprise. Why? Glad you asked. I thought it was lost when a drive I had the project on suffered a catastrophic collapse taking everything with it. Most of what I had on the drive was backed up elsewhere, following the old formula of nothing exists in the digital world unless it exists in two places. But I had nearly five hours of music which I tagged "The Garden of Earthly Delights", not backed up. Gone. Or so I thought. Not long after that I took a "semi retirement" from writing music and the whole episode was buried and forgotten for eight years. Until now. Whilst I was still working on the fifth instalment of the project, I had sent a preliminary copy of the work totalling four hours to a friend who lives on the Isle of Wight. Just recently I was in touch with Steve who reminded me he still had some unreleased material that didn't appear on the any of the lists commonly found on the internet. You could have knocked me down with a feather, as they say. I had no idea or memory of sending it to him. Talk about a miracle! So here we are, and a big thank you to Steve, who promptly copied the discs and sent them to me. Not only did I now have all this material returned to me, I still had the original notes in a notebook including the track breakdown titles and times. The main title comes from a work by the artist Heironymous Bosch, a strange person, who many say belonged to a Christian cult. You can look at his work on line especially the tryptic of that name. Be warned, it isn't comfortable viewing. It is a cynical and darkly humorous work and some of the scenes some might find offensive. The Rock band, Deep Purple used the depictions of Hell on one of their early albums. Well, so much for the source of the inspiration. There was something otherworldly about it that appealed to me and the ideas I had at the time, and which resurfaced in the Tenebrae project I was now working on. There is so much more I need to write about this but space and time doesn't allow for it. Perhaps elsewhere. For now, here it is for your enjoyment.

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