The Book of Swords, by Experimental Broadcast Unit

The Book of Swords

by Experimental Broadcast Unit

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Full Digital Discography

64

releases

Get all 64 KAJA-DISK releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Eyeless In Gaza EP, Trio Excursion, Oligarchs Of The Western World, Once An Alcoholic..., Krautrock Ist Tot, Blair Peach Memorial Sunday, Hydrogen 23 (single), F- By The State, and 56 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

£29.50 GBP or more (50% OFF)

1.	1 - cursed is the ground because of you... 06:07	buy track
2.	2 - Such were the cries of Eve in her labour... 08:29	buy track
3.	3 - the eareth will be barren beneath you. 08:57	buy track
4.	4 - And so was Cain chased out... 06:30	buy track
5.	5 - Why are my kin this way to suffer? 07:12	buy track
6.	6 - A pyre was lit, for the ground would not bear him. 07:24	buy track
7.	7 - Thus was it Enoch who walked in the Love of God. 08:12	buy track
8.	8 - And Adam became dust in the wasteland... 08:51	buy track

about

“The Book of Swords” is based on the idea that there is a section missing from Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, which tells the story of what happens to Adam and Eve and their family following their expulsion from Eden.

As our collaborator - and the one responsible for generating this idea for us - Alfie Cooke explains: In the Old Testament, once the fuss over Cain slaying able dies down, all we get is a list of who begat who, it’s just an incomplete family tree. There is nothing at all about man’s relationship with God until you get to Enoch, six or seven generations down the line. “Swords” is all about the explanation of why that would be, why it is that Adam no longer speaks with God and why the events lead him to lose his faith.”

In a departure from our usual approach, “The Book of Swords” utilizes instrumental recordings made specifically for this project, predominantly using clarinets, low brass, double bass and an instrument new to us, a two-stringed spike-fiddle called a Sorrow that is played upright in the lap. Thus we give you:

The Book of Swords
- E.B.U.

credits

released June 30, 2019

license

some rights reserved

about

KAJA-DISK Gravesend, UK

katali-editions.co.uk

contact / help

Contact KAJA-DISK

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Book of Swords, you may also like:

disconsolate transceiver
by meant.

Brash experimental electronic compositions from this Tulsa-based musician heavy on serrated sheets of sound that hiss and scald. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 27, 2023
go to album
Time Hunt
by Sputnik Trio

The Spanish avant-garde jazz trio takes listeners on a journey through time on their thoughtful new album. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 4, 2022
go to album
Imagination/Meditation
by Lucas Brode & G. Calvin Weston

This collaboration between guitarist Lucas Brode and drummer G. Calvin Weston is a freewheeling hybrid of experimentalism, jazz, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 28, 2023
go to album
Statik
by Kai Meara

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 10, 2023
go to album
Symphony No 1 - Winter
by Douglas Schmidt and John Oliver

Improvised in a single stunning take, the compositions on “Symphony No 1: Winter” are hypnotic and enveloping sheets of sound. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 9, 2023
go to album
rhygin
by anja ngozi

This release from the London-based DJ centers lo-fi and experimental beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 2, 2022
go to album
Languoria
by Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka

Complex, layered electroacoustic songs that tiptoe toward the avant-garde while always remaining solidly tuneful. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 10, 2022
go to album