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'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album | Musique Non Stop

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album

In the 1980s, the sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh. Is the album any good?

The late Ursula K Le Guin wrote many well-loved novels, but few people know that the legendary science fiction and fantasy author once made an album. The strange and enchanting record Music and Poetry of the Kesh – which Le Guin created with the electronic musician and composer Todd Barton to accompany her 1985 book Always Coming Home – has been reissued, following Le Guin’s death in January.

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