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Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone has composed an hour of original music for an experimental audiobook of James Joyce’s classic 1939 novel Finnegans Wake. The international project, called Waywords and Meansigns, endeavored to set an unabridged audio version of the novel to music, with contributions from a “litany of artists”:http://www.waywordsandmeansigns.com/artists.html from around the world.

Carbone composed his hour of music for one of the novel’s chapters. The multi-instrumentalist played guitar, drone and fiddle on the score, which also features his Railroad Earth bandmate Andy Goessling on zither.

Waywords and Meansigns is set for release on May 4. All of the music from the project will be distributed for free via its “website”:http://www.waywordsandmeansigns.com on the same date.