Henry Darger
Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions
1) Chicago Boy
2) The Asylum at Lincoln
3) Walk Back to Chicago
4) Janitor of the Unreal
5) Mass Every Morning
6) The Realms of the Unreal
7) The Vivian Girls March
8) Weather Report from Another World
9) Scissors, Paste, and Found Light
10) Webster Street, Locked Door
11) Mr. Lerner Finds the Realms
The Dream World of Henry Darger Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions
Step behind a locked door on Webster Street, where a quiet hospital janitor built an empire no one knew existed. Captain Xanadu And His Orbiting Orchestrions transport listeners through vibraphone reveries, tribal exotica, and liturgical lounge grooves in this eleven track voyage through the extraordinary hidden life of outsider artist Henry Darger. From a lonely Chicago childhood to a locked room bursting with fifteen thousand handwritten pages, from asylum walls to the marching Vivian Girls, this is the sound of an inner cosmos too vast to stay secret forever. Equal parts tender, playful, and reverent, The Dream World of Henry Darger invites you in through the door he never opened in life. Come explore the Realms of the Unreal, scored for the space age and swimming in found light.
