Flaunt Weeekly
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For most composers, the accusation that their musical creation seems interminable would be seen as an insult.
But for Jem Finer, once the banjo player in The Pogues and co-writer of ‘Fairytale of New York’, that was very much the plan when he came up with ‘Longplayer’.
It is a piece of music that began playing 25 years ago on Tibetan singing bowls, and it is designed to ring out in total for 1,000 years without repetition.
