Hunterland is a single by Lee Harris

Lee Harris (South African musician)

Lee Harris , is a South African playwright, publisher, and spoken word artist.He was one of the few white members of the African National Congress, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela...

 and River Styx

River Styx (musician)

Hicham Bensassi , also known by his stage name "River Styx", is a British songwriter, rap poet, composer and music producer whose work includes music on the satirical BBC animated series Monkey Dust in 2003, remixes including Howard Marks and The Mystery School Ensemble in 2005, also most recently...

 released in 2009 on Artifact Records. After being part of the Naked Lunch @ 50 symposium in Paris, Harris and Styx were inspired to complete this ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 homage to William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...

 and his seminal work Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959. The book is structured as a series of loosely-connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order...

. The piece is composed of original writings by Harris from 1971 adapted into a cut-up

Cut-up technique

The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. Most commonly, cut-ups are used to offer a non-linear alternative to traditional reading and writing....

poem by River Styx. The music was produced by River Styx and is made up of electronically manipulated guitars and also analogue synthesizers by Artifact founder Sean Williams.