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In 2024, Mauricio Reyes approached John Duncan with an audacious idea: to reimagine “Gloomy Sunday”, the Hungarian Suicide Song through the piercing, investigative lens that had defined Duncan’s early groundbreaking work.
The resulting composition, “Gloomy Sunday: The Funeral I Plan for Myself”, is not merely a journalistic project. It is a haunting exploration of the somber, isolating landscape of mental illness.
“Gloomy Sunday” (Hungarian: Szomorú Vasárnap), known as the “Hungarian Suicide Song,” was created by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and first published in 1933.
The story of “Gloomy Sunday” has taken on a life of its own. Both the song and its chilling legend have been chronicled widely in newspapers and magazines, tied to countless alleged suicides.
Duncan, intrigued but cautious, noted that the journalistic angle had been explored thoroughly. He instead offered something more intimate, more unsettling: segments from “Soundtrack For An Incandescent Departure”, a stark and personal composition originally created for his own funeral. The result is not a mere reinterpretation. It is a reckoning, an unflinching meditation on mortality, memory, and the echo of departure. “Gloomy Sunday” draws on elements from “Klaar” and “River in Flames”, earlier works from 1991 by Duncan, reshaping them into shifting textures that dissolve, fracture, and reassemble as the piece unfolds. The sound flows seamlessly, blurring the boundaries between memory and reinvention.
During his research, Mauricio Reyes unearthed two extraordinary recordings in the Telekinett archives. The first, “Santo, Santo”, a funeral mass recorded in San Miguel de Allende, México, features a rendition of the “Rosario” prayer with a hypnotic, almost trance-like quality, haunting in its serenity. The second, “Sarah’s Letter”, a fragile recording from 1953, threads a human presence through the work, casting a psychological shadow that anchors its abstract textures in a deeply personal resonance. The final segment delivers a chilling story: a woman who fell in love with a serial killer imprisoned at Lecumberri Prison in Mexico City, whom she called “My Beautiful Executioner.” In her letters, she describes the ecstasy she felt under the weight of his violence, longing to die at his hands even though he was forever beyond reach.
“Gloomy Sunday” is not merely a piece about death or dying. It reaches further, into the shadowed corridors of the mind where despair quietly forms. It seeks to trace the contours of psychological descent: the slow unraveling, the invisible pressures, the unbearable weight of silence, grief, and disconnection. Whether that final step into the void is chosen in cold clarity or dragged from the wreckage of a mind worn down by invisible torment, “Gloomy Sunday: The Funeral I Plan for Myself” is not an elegy. It’s a dissection. A raw, unrelenting examination of the forces, internal or inflicted, that drive someone to abandon the fight and embrace the fall.
The elements added by Reyes shape the emotional terrain of the piece. The mass looms like a shadow, a ceremonial frame suggesting reverence and resignation. “Sarah’s Letter” pulses quietly, intimately, almost like a whisper cutting through the noise. The Spanish narrative, fractured and elusive, is less storytelling than emotional texture, flickering in and out like memory fragments or intrusive thoughts. Its language adds layers of dissonance and sensuality, even if its meaning remains partially opaque. That ambiguity is its power: it seduces, it vanishes, it lingers. Together, these additions imply rather than dictate meaning, like echoes in an abandoned room. They sit beneath the surface, shaping the listener’s emotional experience.
This haunting work will be released on Halloween 2025 by Soleilmoon Recordings. It comes as a standard CD and a limited edition funerary box containing ashes, photographs, and letters without relation to each other, evoking fragmented memories often found in the labyrinth of mental illness.
Please note that the CDs are professionally duplicated and printed CDRs.
UPD/USB CHIP CONTENTS
1. Gloomy Sunday: The Funeral I plan for Myself
Mauricio Reyes / John Duncan 01:00:00
2. Online Ads
3. Original Gloomy Sunday Recording “Szomorú Vasárnap”
Courtesy of the Internet Archive
4. Postcard
5. Production Notes
6. Copy of the 1956 Sarah’s Letter
7. Seress Image
8. Official Video Promos in full HD
Every Sarah box ships with a copy of the recording as a professionally made Audio CD-R
CD Contents
1. Gloomy Sunday: The Funeral I plan for Myself
Mauricio Reyes / John Duncan 01:00:00
Technical Data (Disc Specs)
UDP/USB Chip
Grade-A UDP Flash Memory Drive USB UDP Chip
Flash Grade: Grade A
Capacity: 4GB
UDP Dimension: 24mm X 11mm X 1.4mm
Reading Speed: Big Capacity (15-18M/S)
Write Speed: Big Capacity (7-10M/S)
Functions: Data Storage, Storage Carrier
Controllers: SMI, Alcor, CBM, Phison, Etc
Recorded CD-R
Audio duration: A standard music CD-R can hold up to 80 minutes of audio
Data size: This is equivalent to approximately 700 MB of storage
Audio format: Uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM).
Capacity: 700 MB (74–80 minutes of audio).
Data Encoding: Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation (EFM) with Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Error Correction (CIRC).
Durability: More stable than CD-R because no organic dye layer is used (replicated discs last decades if stored properly).
Compatibility: Fully compliant with Red Book (CD-DA), Yellow Book (CD-ROM), or other CD standards, depending on format.
Packing
Each box comes with an authenticity edition numbering card. Each product will be carefully and professionally packed to ensure it reaches you in pristine condition.
