Before Birth, by Wyoming Toad

Before Birth

by Wyoming Toad

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1.	Before Birth 1.0 03:14	buy track
2.	Paradise 05:15	buy track
3.	Tiny Dummies in a Wonderful, Pointless Universe 05:58	buy track
4.	Bubbles 05:31	buy track
5.	Hang in There, Fellow Sufferer 06:01	buy track
6.	Even So, Love Life 04:23	buy track
7.	Before Birth 2.0 07:58	buy track
8.	Long After Styrofoam Fossils Fade (Heat Death) 03:08	buy track
9.	Before Birth 1.0 (Instrumental) 03:14	buy track
10.	Paradise (Instrumental) 05:15	buy track
11.	Tiny Dummies in a Wonderful, Pointless Universe (Instrumental) 05:58	buy track
12.	Bubbles (Instrumental) 05:31	buy track
13.	Hang in There, Fellow Sufferer (Instrumental) 06:01	buy track
14.	Even So, Love Life (Instrumental) 04:23	buy track
15.	Before Birth 2.0 (Instrumental) 07:58	buy track
16.	Long After Styrofoam Fossils Fade (Instrumental) 03:08	buy track

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Don't worry about death and, even though your "one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses" is sometimes painful and ultimately meaningless, still revere life.

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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"

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Mostly atmospheric soundscapes, along with some ambient takes on extreme metal, dub reggae, & other genres. All albums are free to stream or download. 🤘 Enjoy!

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Re: the artist name - I grew up in Wyoming and wanted to be a herpetologist as a kid. About the species: iucnredlist.org/species/54583/118976576
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