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FREEATLAST MUSIC leaving the dry lands attracted me to this album I had to buy it straight away ..
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I've never heard anything so amazing in my whole life ..
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Jon H Subtly melancholic, nostalgic and very, very beautiful, Hamlets is right on the feeling that my countrymen call "hiraeth." Excellent stuff - one of my favourites this year. Favorite track: The Tics and the Tocs.
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    CDr enclosed in high quality photo booklet - contains the bonus track "Remains of an Empire" (soundcloud.com/mobelstuck/remains-of-an-empire). The artwork comes from a picture of an aerial view shot over the Venice laguna multiple times on the 14th of August 1918. It's been printed on thick, high quality "Rembrandt Stucco" paper. Additional artwork printed on "Turner Gesso" paper with pictures by M. Beckmann. Handmade booklet printed on 1930s notepad aged paper, with various stamp techniques and handwritten tracklist and credits.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Postnatural studies, Gentle Tide, Leavings, Oostende, A pencil of sunlight, Sketches From Afar II, The Pantry Log, An Impression Of May EP, and 80 more. , and , .

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1.
Leaving the Dry Lands 02:36
2.
White Maize 05:18
3.
Canola 03:02
4.
Sorgum 05:26
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The Tics and the Tocs 09:50
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No Tillage 03:56
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Landlubber 03:42
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Grove of Reeds 04:56
9.
Laguna Rising - Neon Flares Dripping Down My Spine 08:49

about

During summer 2016 I visited a friend of mine who lives 50 kilometers away from my village, still here in North-Eeast Italy. There was a big flea market in the town. We passed by lots of sellers. One in particular stuck with me, an old man selling all kinds of old pictures at unreasonably high price. I came home empty-handed.

Months later I visited the market again, this time determined to bring home a set of beautiful aerial pictures I spotted during the previous visit. I already envisioned how to use them for a new album because they sparkled something, but I was not sure what. The man was still firmly decided not to lower the price for me. So I bought only one, for forty euros.

The picture is astonishing, in my opinion, also given the fact that it is a composite aerial view shot 99 years ago, in 1918, over the fields and marshes of the Venice Laguna.

2017 arrived and I had no new material to publish. Plus I got a new, stiff job. The pacing of my daily life changed dramatically. Weekends became a time-space to live entirely and properly, and also the only time left for my music. I composed a lot on the go, while clearing my mind among the lands of the laguna. I dusted my old tape recorder, and maximized its use to its broadest extent in my personal music making to date.

So after over a year I found that real place, and that aerial view found its music in an album about tension and release. A coming and going to the many places I explored in the few hours I had. An ode to all the villages and parishes, hamlets drowned in fog and mud

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released December 8, 2017

Music, mastering and artwork by M. Beckmann.
Composed between February and October 2017.
North-East Italy.

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since 2011, an ambient-drone-post rock music project developed by M. Beckmann. sketch and improv attitude to get sudden ambience.

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