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Posted by Romy the Cat on
07-05-2026
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https://mutationsbook.com/
As of now, only the Kindle version is available:
https://www.amazon.com/Yesterday-Starts-Tomorrow-Morning-Movements-ebook/dp/B0H72V8XKF?ref=GoodSoundClub.com
The paperback, hardcover, and audio versions will be available between now and July 7.
A Note from the Author
When Carl Jung was asked whether he believed in God, he replied, “I do not
believe. I know.” He did not mean that he had solved God as a proposition. He
meant that he had arrived, by means he never fully explained, at a state of
consciousness in which the question had stopped behaving like a question. This
book is interested in that kind of knowing. Some answers cannot be discovered.
They have to be felt. And to feel them, a person must stop lying to himself,
which is perhaps the hardest thing any human being is ever asked to do.
On July 7, Gustav Mahler and I were born.
Gustav Mahler was Mahler. I am merely another piece of consciousness trying
to declare its presence, perhaps by virtue of this book. But you have a
birthday too. It is not a trivial fact. At some point Mahler opened his eyes
and found himself here. You did the same; so did I. The rest came later.
I have spent fifty-seven years inside a nervous system that receives too much:
grief and tenderness, appetite and fear, and the small lies people tell
themselves in order to survive the morning. I did not choose this. I was born
to it.
This book is not written from a safe distance. It came into existence
through an act of self-burning. I am publishing it on the day I stop being
fifty-seven because the version of me that was afraid of his own language has
lived long enough.
It is literature: a symphony in fifteen movements, composed from the
materials of one life, transformed, rearranged, and reimagined into fiction.
The reader may decide whether the author is a witness, an Idiot, or an
idiot.
Roman Bessnow
July 7, 2026
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
07-20-2026
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Yesterday Starts Tomorrow Morning is a novel composed as a literary symphony in fifteen movements. It follows fifteen distinct characters whose lives unfold through music, memory, technology, love, conflict, and the strange comedy of being human.
Klaus is only one of those characters, but he may be especially familiar to readers who care deeply about high-end audio. His world is inseparable from serious listening: the equipment, the recordings, the search for fidelity, and the almost impossible hope of reproducing not merely sound, but the living presence of music.
Because this part of the novel speaks so directly to the audiophile experience, I am presenting Chapters III and XV here as MP3 previews. They offer a taste of Klaus’s story and of the larger novel surrounding him.
Klaus is not the subject of the entire book. He is one voice among fifteen—but, for those who understand what it means to truly listen, he may be the perfect place to begin.
The Audio File: Yesterday_Starts_Tomorrow_Morning_Bessnow_Ch3_Ch15.mp3
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