One of Los’s ongoing projects is translating Finnegans Wake by James Joyce into rock music. The Wake naturally lends itself to a musical translation with its jabberwocky prose of multilingual puns and portmanteau words. It’s a twilight book, so it’s gonna need a twilight soundtrack. Here is the ‘thunderword’ from page 1. “Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!” Thunderword. Pg.1 […]
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