Before The Law by Franz Kafka - Classic Literature Novel, Philosophical Fiction Book - Perfect for Book Clubs, Literary Studies & Personal Enlightenment" (Note: If "Before The Law" refers to a different product, please provide context for accurate optimization.)

Between the Badawi stuff and the Raz "solo" stuff, I've gotten 4 albums by him so far, and this was the 3rd. From what one can glean from the whole package, after listening now and then, this album is much more in line with the Zorn/Tzadik cut & paste type sound than the drum-heavy, post-dub Badawi sound. The "Unspeakable" CD sounded like a transitional, real metamorphosis... and then this is rather the most Classical result of that: A bizarre world soundtrack to Kafka's "Metamorphosis". Among other titles. I find a lot of novelty appeal in it. Can't think of another musical act that's shown any influence from Kafka's work, and without this I'd probably think such a thing were impossible. I've read a few of the stories, seen 2 versions of the Trial without reading the book, so by and largely the correlation between one segment of the album and the next, or what might be the "musical world" of each story, is very mysterious. And it should be.I would suspect there was some larger project that this music was composed for - like, the "Unspeakable" was apparently going to be the soundtrack for a Hellraiser movie and was never used; but nothing I can gather from the marketing blurb, or any other reviews anywhere. Perhaps it all sprang forth fully formed, from the Mind of the bourgeois reader... I can dig it.