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The Residents' album, The Voice Of Midnight, is the follow up to 2006's Tweedles.

With a long history of story-based music projects, The Residents have now taken a bold step, for the first time crossing a line into the world of music theatre.

The Voice Of Midnight was adapted from a short story, Der Sandmann, by Prussian writer E.T.A. Hoffman, first published 190 years ago. On the surface it's a simple story of madness. It has, however, been recognized as addressing the conflict between the age of reason and the romantic era by scholars who have studied the tale. It has been adapted, in parts, by Jacques Offenbach for his opera The Tales of Hoffman, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for The Nutcracker Suite, and for the ballet Coppelia. Freud extensively interpreted Der Sandmann in his famous essay Das Unheimilch in 1919. Freud (and this might sound familiar...) was fascinated by Hoffman's obsession with eyeballs. The protagonist of the story is Nathaniel (Nate) who carries a deeply-seated fear that the childhood fable character, the sandman, is stalking him. The character of Nate is superbly performed on The Voice Of Midnight by Corey Rosen who first worked with The Residents on River of Crime in 2006. Nate's fiancée, Clair, a steadfast realist, is performed by Gerri Lawler who also worked on River of Crime as well as 2006's Tweedles. Long time Residents collaborator Carla Fabrizio performs the role of the other "woman”, Olympia.

The Residents embody the other characters and perform the music, assisted by soloist Nolan Cook, whose guitar work for the Residents over the last eight years is legendary.

Musical pioneers, technological innovators and an influence to countless musicians and artists, for several decades The Residents have puzzled, intrigued and entertained generations of fans.

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