This week’s episode of Between Birds of Prey is an allegory of The Road as life itself.

He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of floating cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. What will you say? A living man spoke these lines? He sharpened a quill with his small penknife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? At some reckonable and entabled moment? He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my mouth with dirt.

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

1. Beyond Sensory Experience – Time traveler’s dilemma (Ratan)
2. Sol Invictus – The Coffin Road (All Things Strange And Rare)
3. Tor Lundvall – Dark Roads (Sleeping And Hiding)
4. The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – A New Soldier Follows The Path Of A New King IV (A New Soldier Follows The Path Of A New King)
5. Atrium Carceri – A Path Through Remembrance (Ptahil)
6. Aesthesys – Paths Are Made By Walking (An Exceptionally Simple Theory Of Everything [EP])
7. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – All is One (From the Stairwell)
8. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Journey (The Road)
9. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – The Road (The Road)
10. Peter Broderick – Eyes Closed and Travelling (Glimmer)
11. Eluvium – The Motion Makes Me Last (The Motion Makes Me Last)
12. Max Richter – Journey 1 (Infra)
13. Thomas Newman – Road To Perdition (Road To Perdition)
14. Thomas Newman – Road To Chicago (Road To Perdition)
15. Dustin O’Halloran – We Move Lightly (Lumiere)
16. James Newton Howard – The Gravel Road (The Village)
17. Max Richter – Journey 4 (Infra)
18. Hans Zimmer – Journey To The Line (The Thin Red Line)
19. John Williams – Journey to the Island (Jurassic Park)
20. Howard Shore – The Journey To The Grey Havens (Featuring Sir James Galway) (The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (The Complete Recordings))
21. Howard Shore – The Paths Of The Dead (The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (The Complete Recordings))
22. Kronos Quartet – Death Is The Road To Awe (The Fountain)
23. David Arkenstone – Journey’s End (Himalayan Passage)

Between Birds of Prey #110 – The Road.mp3

Between Birds of Prey #110 – The Road.cue