Before Birth by Wyoming Toad

released December 28, 2021

Ryan – Korg Wavestate, Moog Micromoog, Yamaha reface DX, Seiko DS-250, Casio CZ-101

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All literature and philosophy passages read by Librivox.org volunteers (open access). I uploaded the instrumental versions if you'd rather listen without the passages.

Before Birth 1.0
-Passages from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse read by Cori Samuel.

Paradise
-Passage from Rousseau’s Emile read by Craig Campbell.
-Passages from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams read by Pamela Krantz.

Tiny Dummies in a Wonderful, Pointless Universe
-Passages from Pascal’s Pensée read by dexter.
-Passages from Knut Hamsun’s Pan read by Kathrine Engan.

Bubbles
-Passage from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina read by Mary Ann.
-Passages from Augustine’s City of God read by Darren L. Slider.
-Passages from Ecclesiastes read by Michael Packard.

Hang in There, Fellow Sufferer
-Passages from Hugo’s Les Misérables, read by Rachel Nelson-Smith.
-Passages from Schopenhauer’s Studies in Pessimism read by D.E. Wittkower.

Even So, Love Life
-Passages from Proust’s Swann’s Way read by Andrew Coleman.
-The Norm Macdonald snippet is from an interview.
-Passage from Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot read by Alia Makki.
-Passages from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass read by Foon.

Before Birth 2.0
-Passages from Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things read by Anna Simon.

Long After Styrofoam Fossils Fade
-Passages from Leopardi’s Essays and Dialogues read by Eric Metzler.

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Album art from Hugo Simberg's "The Garden of Death"