"Short and to the Point" EP released

The soundtrack for the upcoming theatre performance "Kratko in jedrnato" (Short and to the Point), directed and co-written by Marko Djukić, has just been released as a 15-minute EP, entitled "Short and to the Point". You can download it on Bandcamp (free / name your price) or grab a free download here.

All tracks on Short and to the Point were composed, arranged, recorded & produced by Borut Praper (a.k.a. Ray Kosmick). All instruments performed by Borut Praper. Produced, mixed and mastered by Ray Kosmick in S.U.R. Studio, Berlin, in 2016. The cover artwork is a screenshot from the film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by F.W. Murnau (1927).

Theatre performance credits: 
Starring: Branka Hočevar, Helena Bevc, Renata Jančar, Neli Mlinar, Tamara Kragulj, Aja Kobe k.g., Roman Tišler, Urh Props, Maks Kovič, Žiga Rappl, Gal Mavretič 
Set design & costumes: Katja Sladič Rudolf 
Assistant set & costume designers: Tina Baš, Tjaša Doblekar, Tessa Adamič 
Hair stylist: Nina Vozel Light design: Aljoša Vizlar 
Technicians: Jure P. Končar, Matej Bračun 
Performance produced by the TOMBAS society in cooperation with the Litija Cultural Centre

"Pendulum Pet" (the novel) released!

I am overjoyed to report that my second novel, Pendulum Pet, has just been released on Amazon! It's currently enrolled in Amazon KDP Select, so it'll remain exclusive to Amazon for the foreseeable future. I might change my mind and release it elsewhere at some point, but for now let's see how this arrangement works out. 

 I would hereby like to thank my precious "beta readers": Monika Fritz, Rick Harsch, Vesna Žagar, Barbara Drobnak, Jure Rudolf, Sunčan Stone and Marko Djukić for their invaluable insight, assistance in the never-ending whack-a-typo hunt, as well as their involvement in advanced mental fart eradication. Furthermore, hats off to Matej Peklar, top-notch illustrator and my best friend back in primary school (in another millennium, in a now deceased country), for his witty cover design. Yay, we've got a thoroughly grumpy pooch on the cover! 

Over here you can listen to the complete soundtrack for this novel and download it for free. I can only hope Pendulum Pet manages to find a few readers whose sense of humour is convoluted enough to enjoy it. By the way, the price on Amazon is $3.99.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

PENDULUM PET 

(Cynicism Management Series Book 2)

Satire / comic fantasy / sci-fi 

Pendulum Pet is a romp through the vicissitudes of a gregarious advanced culture with too much time, information and technology on its hands. Paranoia is placed and misplaced, the devious succeed through manipulations of those who gaze in wonder at the mundane like chimps on acid, or fail when the truly bizarre and unthinkable inadvertently stand in their way. 

Civilizations clash, as they will, when Metaore, a transnational mining corporation headed by CEO Budd Dimples, purchases a field behind Boris and Beeba’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Tavern, a cult concert venue and meeting place of an eclectic collection of feckless artists, in order to undertake a remarkable experiment: drilling a geopunctural borehole to heal the Earth. Budd has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and taken a sudden turn toward esoteric wisdom, much encouraged by his healer and sex therapist Ashtara Wolf. 

Bogomyr Yadvig, one of the more outré of the regulars, lives in a tent nearby with Rex the tavern hound – his idea of communing with Greek Cynics in preparation for an upcoming performance piece. He has cause to lose sleep and accumulate suspicion that the corporation has nefarious unstated ends in mind, particularly when he has his Roswell moment, if that is indeed what it is. 

The corporate endeavour comes to a sudden halt when their drill runs into an impenetrable barrier, leading to mutually unfortunate and potentially combustible discoveries, along with stunning truths about parallel evolution and devolution. Yes, the world of the techno-information age has gone mad and survival may very well depend on the whims of a pendulum pet.  

Please note that this novel is adult, poignant satire. As such it contains explicit language, sex scenes, politically incorrect depictions, and may be offensive to the more irritable readers. Even though the work is part of a series, the story is self-contained and can be read independently of the other Cynicism Management Series novels.