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This CD release from Tri-Cornered Tent Show with guests Rent Romus – reeds/voice/zither rod and Jeff Hobbs- violin, trumpet is inspired by early 20th Century horror-scifi writer H.P. Lovecraft’s 38-sonnet piece entitled “Fungi In Yuggoth”*. Thanks to the underground discovery by Edgetone Records Research Director, Roderick Repke, music by a Dr. Harold Farnese who wrote an unfinished operetta for Lovecraft’s sonnets was discovered, and is the loose basis for the finished Legion of Dagon project now available.
* Poems: “Fungi from Yuggoth” by H.P. Lovecraft, public domain.
Partial lost score written for Lovecraft by Harold Farnese in 1932
- Rent Romus - reeds, flute, toys, vocals
- André Custodio - synthesizer, percussion
- Philip Everett - drums, autoharp, elec. perc
- Ray Schaeffer - electric bass
- Jeff Hobbs - violin, trumpet, cornet, vocals
You’ll either find it wanky and mawkish or refreshing and daring. Either way, you’ll have a difficult time remaining neutral toward their squibbling reed instruments, Lovercraft-inspired lyrics and dramatic percussive flourishes.
Phillip Buchan, Splendid