Talking Weird #140 Music from Elsewhere with Doug Skinner

Doug Skinner has contributed to The Fortean Times, Fate, Weirdo, Nickelodeon, Cabinet, Typo, and other fine publications. His many books include short stories, a novel (Nominata), and translations of many Bohemians, occultists, and visionaries, including Alphonse Allais, Charles Cros, Alfred Jarry, Luigi Russolo, and Giovanni Battists Nazari.

Visit Doug's website here: https://www.dougskinner.net/

He has written music for theater and dance, most conspicuously for Bill Irwin’s show The Regard of Flight, which toured for decades. His albums That Regrettable Weekend, It All Went Pfft, and An Afternoon in the Arboretum are available on Bandcamp.

TV and movie appearances include Great Performances, Martin Mull’s Talent Takes a Holiday, Ed, Crocodile Dundee II, and several of George Kuchar's videos. He has played piano on the BBC, played ukulele on the Joe Franklin Show and at an Aerosmith release party, MC'd at the Rainbow and Stars, read the audiobook of Kiarna Boyd’s scary novel Blessed and Cursed Alike, and lectured on various questionable topics at the American Visionary Art Museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Healing, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and other places.

For many years, he has maintained a tribute site to his close friend: The late, great, Fortean writer, John Keel, at https://www.johnkeel.com/

And Doug's book on anomalous music, Music From Elsewhere, was published last year by Strange Attractor Books in the UK, and is distributed in the US by the MIT Press.

it is available from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Music-Elsewhere-Haunting-Afterlife-Worlds/dp/1913689212

The accompanying music for the book is available here, on Bandcamp: https://strangeattractorpress.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-elsewhere

Doug visits with Talking Weird to chat about his book MUSIC FROM ELSEWHERE: A compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.

Along with talking about music from these other worlds, Doug also shares some of the music itself! This is a unique and fascinating episode, with one of the most erudite and witty personalities of the Fortean field. Do not miss it!