Thomas Ligotti's Pictures of Apocalypse LP is now on sale!

Cadabra Records has just released an exquisite vinyl record of Thomas Ligotti’s acclaimed volume of poetry “Pictures of Apocalypse. “ This beautiful LP immediately follows Chiroptera’s exceptional book release of this brilliant poetry cycle which consists of all brand new works by Ligotti.

Jon Padgett’s performance of the poems are full of dazzling intensity and immersive emotive power.

For the soundtrack I utilized acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers, piano, bells, finger cymbals and drones. Barry Knob masterfully produced the score.

The record includes an introduction from Thomas Ligotti.

Cadabra Records and Chiroptera founder Jonathan Dennison provides the striking and remarkably evocative art which is taken from his outstanding art for the book release.

I’m incredibly grateful to be a part of this magnificent release and am excited for people to experience this record!

Here are more details about the release from Cadabra:

Thomas Ligotti, Pictures of Apocalypse LP - Read by Jon Padgett, score by Chris Bozzone

Also available oversees through Psilowave.com

Many of you have purchased the print edition through Chiroptera Press. Now, Cadabra Records has made available a brilliant audio production with the vocal mastery of Jon Padgett and elegantly scored by Chris Bozzone.

Copies are in stock and ready to ship.
 

Package includes:

* 150 gram vinyl 

* Deluxe heavy weight tip-on gatefold jacket.

* Includes introduction by Thomas Ligotti

* Newly commissioned art by Jonathan Dennison.

While Cadabra Records have released six albums featuring the words of writer Thomas Ligotti as read by Jon Padgett and scored by Chris Bozzone, their seventh is something unique, as it marks the auditory premiere of Ligotti's most recent book, Pictures of Apocalypse. Published earlier this year by Chiroptera Press – Cadabra's literary offshoot – is a cycle of lyric and narrative poems that share the common theme of what Ligotti designates as “the Great Going” from both individual and collective perspectives.

The twenty pieces, plus introduction, which comprise Pictures of Apocalypse look to the incalculable “curious modalities” of how things might end. The introduction presents each of these pieces as hypotheticals for those too lackadaisical to put their mind to the contemplation of the cataclysmic, and the works themselves begin almost prosaically, with “The End of an Era” looking at the idea that time and place might be divisible into chapters and that temporal divisions aren't to be scoffed at or looked at lightly. It's almost academic in its tone, with reader Padgett taking on an air of intellectualism.

The flow of this collection is just superb in its ever-escalating downward pitch. Each successive installment becomes less an abstract mental exercise and more of a very specific look at a particular mind. The rational approach taken early on in Pictures of Apocalypse stands in stark contrast to “Mental Notes on the End of Days,” wherein one can witness and experience the cognitive degradation of the narrator in real time as the piece unfolds. Mental notes or not, one can practically hear the frantic scratching of pen on paper as the agitated words come one after another, while sounds of vast emptiness echo in the background.