Musical Radio Theater Version of Dante's Divine Comedy (MP3s)

In 1993, German artist Andreas Ammer teamed up with members of Einstürzende Neubauten and legendary DJ John Peel to produce a radio play of Dante's Divine Comedy. The result was Radio Inferno, with music by Einstürzende's F.M. Einheit, and starring Blixa Bargeld as Dante, Phil Minton as Virgil, and John Peel as "The Radio" (the narrator). Caspar Brotzmann played guitar, and the work includes gues appearance from Bootsy Collins and many others.

The fate of Limbo may still be in limbo, but 33 other of Dante's cantos await you, with John Peel, Blixa Bargeld and FM Enheit as your guides. Here are all 34 acts of Radio Inferno:

Canto I   |   Canto II   |   Canto III   |   Canto IV   |   Canto V   |   Canto VI   |   Canto VII

Canto VIII   |   Canto IX   |   Canto X   |   Canto XI   |   Canto XII   |   Canto XIII

Canto XIV   |   Canto XV   |   Canto XVI   |   Canto XVII   |   Canto XVIII   |   Canto XIX

Canto XX   |   Canto XXI   |   Canto XXII   |   Canto XXIII   |   Canto XXIV   |   Canto XXV   |   Canto XXVI

Canto XXVII   |   Canto XXVIII   |   Canto XXIX   |   Canto XXX   |   Canto XXXI   |   Canto XXXII

Canto XXXIII   |   Canto XXXIV

Comments

[john]

The link for Canto XIV links to XV instead.

[Station Manager Ken]

Sorry about the bad link on Canto 14 - it's fixed now.

-ken

[Sabine]

A nice visual companion to these sounds is an exhibition about Dante's Divine Comedy in Fort Asperen in the Netherlands in 1999.
http://www.clubmoral.com/ddv/hel/

[amma]

that was hell of some years ago ... no internet around at those times otherwise it would have been necessary to add this technique in the radioplay. when I visited John Peel to record his voice for this play he committed to me that his imagination of hell would be that he has to listen to all his radio shows for all eternity. but there would be no need for that as John ist in the heavens above