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Harvesting the Wheat

Harvey Dunn (1883-1952)

American Artist

Brandywine School

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The Urbanist

Whatever sins of urban living you commit today, and you will commit at least one, will be washed away overnight. When you get back on the train the next morning, nobody will even remember. It’s liberating, in a way. It’s the introvert’s dream. All the people around you are extras in the movie of your life, and you are an extra in theirs.

via The Urbanist – Sanspoint. – Essays on Technology and…

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Terra Incognita, anti-ruralism and a return to nature

I've been working more on Terra Incognita, restructuring and reimagining the piece. I've probably done more versions of this album than anything I've done before. There's about 90 minutes of material recorded, although I think I've finally pieced together the best 30 minutes into a nice piece. Discussing release options with a couple of labels at the moment. I've also worked on a couple of mixtapes to fit the theme, which will be aired later in the year.

I recently returned to the 'Where Will We Go When the Roads Have All Cracked?' record I was working on a few years ago, and finished it off to a standard it needed. Going to start sorting out release details for that soon. It will feature reworkings of previously released tracks 'The Slow Decay of Concrete and Glass' and 'Oxygen, Tanks and Gas Masks', and an album release, finally, of 'Closed Loops of a Train' - for those of you who've heard those, that will give an idea of the mood. I'm describing it as anti-ruralism, although in its portrait of the bleak, hopelessness of urban decay, I suppose it comes around to the same sort of thinking as ruralism itself: a return to the tranquility of nature and the land as a refuge from the 21st century.

Anyway, after the anti-ruralism and exploring the psychedelic headspaces of Terra Incognita and its associated mixtapes, I feel comfortable returning to the ruralist world for future recordings. I have no real plans at the moment, other than getting some gear and setting up a mini-studio (sick of my laptop). I've been listening to Eno's 'Another Green World' lately, and would love to do something with a similar pastoral feel. So who knows!

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