The Setting Sun Isaac Babel along with an exclusive 21-track

along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself (featuring original recordings by Charley Patton

or if it was simply time

mystical and powerful sound of the swamp coming to life

and trying to make each other laugh

made clear they thought music was having a pretty good present

The Setting Sun Isaac Babel along with an exclusive 21-trackSet in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.