Requiem: I Am Become Death

from Fever Dream by The Bedlam Furnaces

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This song is a meditation on our apparent desire to destroy ourselves, and the symbiotic systems that support us. Inspired by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 & 9 August 1945, respectively, which (according to Wikipedia in 2021) killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. So far, it’s the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Robert J Oppenheimer invited us to consider a world where “…few people laughed, few people cried – most people were silent.” Mushroom clouds have been reduced to symbols; the solo section at the end was inspired by imagining what those clouds mean – what they are clouds of.

The voice ofRobert J Oppenheimer was made available on a creative commons website, and is still available on a number of other platforms in numerous formats claiming to be free to use. This piece is certainly not a celebration of the atomic bomb or nuclear weapons, but neither is it a comment or attack on Mr Oppenheimer as a person or his family or estate. I can only imagine the feelings and ideas he had to wrestle with. I invite you to consider the world he describes, and all the forms of wilful destruction that might lead to it.

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from Fever Dream, released February 12, 2021

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Sysiphus

Nov 2023
Cursed (Goat Mix)

Oct 2023
Cursed (Wicker Man Mix)

Oct 2023
Loss Of Innocence

Dec 2022
Pulling Wires

May 2022
Worlds Apart

Oct 2021
Maybe. Maybe not.

Aug 2021
Fever Dream

Feb 2021
Wild Rocket

Jun 2020
Interrobang

May 2020
Bestiary

Nov 2014

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