Recording of Sirens from Ulysses

A recording of Cathy Berberian reading an excerpt from Sirens from James Joyce’s Ulysses. She has such a smooth voice. I came across this listening to Crystal Castle’s song Air War. Text: BRONZE BY GOLD HEARD THE HOOFIRONS, STEELYRINING IMPERthnthn thnthnthn. Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. Horrid! And gold flushed more. A husky fifenote blew. Blew. Blue bloom is on the Gold pinnacled hair. A jumping rose on satiny breasts of satin, rose of Castille. Trilling, trilling: I dolores. Peep!
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