The latest chapter in David Lynch’s consistently interesting recent focus on music arrived today in the form of news of a 17-track charity compilation, curated by and set to benefit his David Lynch Foundation, which features exclusive tracks by Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, Moby, Ben Folds, and many more artists. In exchange for a pledge of $18, DLF Music will provide all tracks in a digital format over the course of the next six weeks, with all proceeds going to their global effort to teach “stress-reducing, health-promoting meditation to one million at-risk youth and 10,000 veterans with PTSD.”
Waits’ exclusive contribution to the “Download for Good” campaign is a stripped-down live recording of “The Briar & the Rose,” a song the Rock Hall inductee wrote in 1993 for the album and William S. Burroughs-co-written play The Black Rider. You can hear a 90-second preview of the track alongside four more cuts from the comp right now and purchase/pledge thataway.