The Foghorn's Lament av Jennifer Lucy Allan

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<P><B>''A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea'' Brian Eno</B><br><br><B><I>''</I>As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests'' John Higgs</B><br><br><B>''A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music'' Cosey Fanni Tutti</B><br><br>What does the foghorn sound like?<br><br>It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. It is a booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn''s colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco.<br><br>Within its sound is a maritime history of shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, the story and science of our industrial past, and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks, blasting out for coastal r