Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Well, it finally happened! Quite possibly the world's first 'ancient lyre/mainstream' crossover - a re-recording of my first YouTube arrangement of the Hurrian Hymn now forms a semi-surreal musical collage (overlaid with the voice of American satirist, Lenny Bruce!) - the final track on "Death Jokes"; the new album out today, by Amen Dunes:

open.spotify.com/track/1tc7fJ2ANiHv7pNLsABKzg?si=966ca4295cca4566

To celebrate this day, here once again, is my ORIGINAL arrangement of the tune which inspired this collaboration with Damon McMahon - 'live from my spare room' way back in February 2008 when I still lived in my old house in Salford (rather appropriately, recorded on quite possibly one of the world's oldest webcams - salubriously purchased on Salford Precinct, way back in 2003!).

For full details on the Hurrian Hymn, the oldest known notated melody in History, please see my detailed website blog:

ancientlyre.com/the-oldest-written-melody-in-history

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