O sleep! O gentle sleep!

O sleep! O gentle sleep!
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?
2 Henry IV (3.1.7-16)

Via Jarvis Cocker I’m listening to Max Richter’s Sleep – the 8 hour piece that broke several world records being broadcast live a few months ago. Some of it is music so beautiful it makes me want to cry…

He’s released a box set of the 8 hours and also Mogwai has remixed Path 5 which is released today, as more of a nightmare than the somnambulist peaceful dream of the original.