art partisans present:






online at least until:
July 31, 2004

ID: "ARTPARTISANS MP3#5"
Release date: April 29, 2004


1. Introduction
2. The Man of the Crowd
3. The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Murders]
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Analysis]
5. The Devil in the Belfry
6. The Fall of the House of Usher
7. A Descent into the Maelstrom
8. The Sphinx
9. Coda

Herr K
"Histories (Soundtracks to the works of Edgar Poe)"
  • "Histories" is a an album with the soundtracks to the works of Edgar Poe by Herr K, the music project of art partisans.
  • There are several musical interpretations of the Edgar Poe's works by various artists. The soundtracks on this album have nothing to do with any of them, the music for the most of the stories that inspired this project was probably never made before (except "The Fall of the House Of Usher")
  • If you want to "browse" this album, please don't download just one mp3 (the music is rather different), but the special 3 minutes long InfoMix with the fragments of all 9 tracks.
  • Best experienced in the headphones.
  • Recorded all over the world in 1998, 2000, 2003 and January-April 2004.
  • Please visit the official site of Herr K, www.herrk.org for more information.
  • The original stories by Edgar Poe can be found here: Project Gutenberg. Please just search on this site for "Poe".
  • Please also visit one of the biggest websites related to Edgar Poe: "Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher" by Peter Forrest www.comnet.ca/~forrest for more information on Edgar Poe.
  • This is a free MP3 release. Please feel free to copy the album in it's entirety (original MP3 ID Tags and artwork) for private use, general free distribution or just to share with your friends. Copyright notices are only for the protection of the author’s rights and prevention of stealing.
  • All tracks are copyrighted to their author - K Alex, except Introduction, copyrighted to deda & K Alex (with text by Edgar Poe).
  • Music is in MP3 format, professionally encoded with high quality, bitrate: 192kbps. Total size (only MP3 files, without InfoMix): 50,3 Mb. Total time: 36:34.
  • Please use a download manager to avoid the most of all possible downloading problems. Popular download managers "FlashGet" and "GetRight" can be downloaded from www.download.com
  • Feel free to download everything and to share it with others.
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MP3:
"Histories" InfoMix (4,42 Mb)
A 3 minutes long informational mix with the fragments of all 9 tracks

1. Introduction (4,28 Mb)
2. The Man of the Crowd (8,68 Mb)
3. The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Murders] (5,74 Mb)
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Analysis] (5,87 Mb)
5. The Devil in the Belfry (4,69 Mb)
6. The Fall of the House of Usher (6,77 Mb)
7. A Descent into the Maelstrom (7,73 Mb)
8. The Sphinx (4,34 Mb)
9. Coda (2,19 Mb)
artwork for CD:
complete artwork (PDF 2,23 Mb)
Album credits:
  • K Alex - idea & conception, electronic, software synths, beats, sound samples & effects, bass (1,2,5,7), electric guitar (2,3,7,8), 12 string guitar (5,6), whispers (1)
  • deda - keyboards (1,9)
  • Zeke Mason - electric guitar (3,4), violin (5)
  • Ananda - speaking voice (1,9)
  • Computers - sound generators and great helpers


Producing, mixing and sound engineering: K Alex
Cover design: K Alex & deda.
Cover image ("The Man Of The Crowd") and other pictures used in the artwork by deda


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