And thanks for the link to Serenia and Silk--I think I'm going to subscribe--sounds interesting.

Silk (1998) is one of my favorite novels, and I think you might like it very much: it's built around music and the ambiguous space between the true supernatural and what's inside people's heads, and its language is extraordinary in its detail and rhythm; the ten-years-later sequel Murder of Angels (2004), although a very different kind of book, is also quite good.