The Apocalypse of a Soul

by Jim Kirkwood

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Nicolas I have never, ever heard such beautiful and engaging music. This truly is a magnificent and marvelous collection of fresh and gorgeous sounds that one can imagine. Yes, thinking of the best moments in the history of Tangerine Dream - certainly, most certainly! -, but this wealthy collection goes far beyond that, it encompasses space and time easily. Too good to be true! Listen, it's a stunning experience. Favorite track: Anno Domini 1862.

Robert Wallace This is absolutely MEGA!!. I love Jim's work and he always produces something that sounds fresh and full of imagination. But this package is well up there with his best, if not best, so far. Every track tells a story and are all things of beauty. The man is a genius and both the music and artwork complement each other 100%. This is 7 discs worth of musical paradise and well worth 50p plus of anyone's hard earned cash. Buy it, put the cans on and just enter another realm. Favorite track: Anno Domini 1862.

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1.	Anno Domini 1862 01:01:57	buy track
2.	This Present Darkness 12:58	buy track
3.	The Legions of Chaos 13:12	buy track
4.	The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail 29:41	buy track
5.	He Came Back from the Shadows 10:40	buy track
6.	Exilic Visions 28:31	buy track
7.	Black Dragon Rising 13:52	buy track
8.	Cathedral on the Edge of Time 25:51	buy track
9.	The Seer of Bedlam 17:45	buy track
10.	Soldier of Light 27:09	buy track
11.	Elbereth 19:07	buy track
12.	Morgarhel 11:04	buy track
13.	There is a Creeping Darkness Beneath the City 31:09	buy track
14.	White they were with Golden Eyes 07:57	buy track
15.	In the Simple Joy of the Moment 06:00	buy track
16.	Where the Ragged People Go 04:50	buy track
17.	The Dark Forest of Hope 13:15	buy track
18.	On Paths of Shimmering Starlight 04:37	buy track
19.	Caught in the Rye 24:30	buy track
20.	A Mist Along the Edge of the Forest 05:45	buy track
21.	The House that Jack Built 24:06	buy track
22.	I Am the Pen of a Ready Writer 23:18	buy track
23.	A Beekeeper in the Foothills of Paradise 14:10	buy track
24.	Seven Ways through the Heartland Moors 02:30	buy track
25.	Welcome to Tenebrae 24:54	buy track

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By my own standards this has been a while coming. I my defense, i can only point to the length of this project so far, over seven and half hours of music and quite a bit of accompanying artwork.(yes, I must get out more) I have labelled this album as parts 1-7. This is for convenience sake so that it can be so divided and copied onto 7 CDs if you so wish. It is actually a single album and as yet incomplete. There will eventually be parts 8-14 and probably more than that. I am writing a story which is acting as the source of inspiration for the music. It is directly related to my other Tenebrae albums, including "The Hermit of Bryn or Garreg" As I have said already, the story is largely inspired by C.S.lewis's book, The Great Divorce. It is Gothic and Otherworldly. The music is appropriately, I think, tagged by myself as Gothic EM. It is safe to say, the music can be enjoyed on many levels and if you like my other releases, is consistent in style with those. It is also to some extent, though not completely, autobiographical. It begins in the year 1862. (I really am not that old) and concerns a man, an artist, judged to be insane and imprisoned in Bedlam, who dies for a period of seven days before returning with a tale that was seven years in the making! It is about parallel worlds and histories, gods and angels, spiritual possession and redemption, adventure and a journey through another dimension and world, and of course, an apocalypse. There is always going to be an apocalypse. lol I hope you enjoy the ride.

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released July 20, 2024

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