Tom Waits - Blood Money Artist_SOAK and Paul Larson (Athalia/Dntel)

and Paul Larson (Athalia/Dntel)

The week of album release marks his second anniversary of getting the all-clear

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from time to time the listener can hear understated ambient drones

Tom Waits - Blood Money Artist_SOAK and Paul Larson (Athalia/Dntel)Blood Money uses the same template and players as Alice (released at the same time) and first saw life as an opera production by Robert Wilson. It's Waits's treatment of Georg Buchner's 1837 socio political play, Woyzek which premiered in 2000 in Copenhagen. It's a dark morality play performed in a style where a barker from a medicine show is mysteriously transported to the Weimar Republic via Tin Pan Alley. Disturbing and delirious when it's not