
RARE FINDS - Todd Robbins, Spurs LP - Read by Laurence R. Harvey, score by Chris Bozzone
TODD ROBBINS, SPURS LP - READ BY LAURENCE R. HARVEY, SCORE BY CHRIS BOZZONE You are buying a "blind" (this could be any of the variants originally offered) vinyl variant. 4x copies available * Limited pressing on 150 gram vinyl * Printed on a deluxe heavy weight gatefold tip-on jacket * Includes insert liner notes by Johnny Mains * Newly commissioned art by Zakuro Aoyama For a story set in the world of the circus and its denizens, Chris Bozzone's score for Lawrence R. Harvey's reading of Tod Robbins' 1923 macabre tale, Spurs, eschews all the trappings one would expect from those environs. The calliope does not peal out, nor does the swinging jazz of the era kick ups its heels. Instead, composer Bozzone opts for sounds which echo the tonal shifts in Robbins' tale. At the outset, the music is that of a pipe organ, reflecting the opening line, “Jacques Courbé was a romanticist.” Its reverential tones are precisely those of the vest-pocket protagonist in his admiration of bareback