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The CD comes in a luxurious 8-panel digifile with embossed cover, printed on high quality natural paper, and booklet. Limited edition of 333 copies.
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The special edition CD set includes obi strip, sticker, moss spores and a certificate for supporting “Ekayana Forest Project” – a Buddhist community sharing a common forest worldwide, located in various reforestation projects. Their aim is to develop a climate-supportive and environmental-friendly spiritual practice. 3€ donation flows directly into the planting of 3 trees. The moss spores are for home gardening – moss binds huge amounts of carbon dioxide and thus also positively influences the climate. Limited edition of 66 hand-numbered copies.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Hunters in the Snow – A Contemplation on Pieter Bruegel‘s Series of the Seasons
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Inspired by the Pieter Bruegel’s seasons paintings, the three industrial music projects Anemone Tube, Jarl and Monocube developed a cosmos of sound over the course of more than five years. The result “The Hunters in the Snow - A Contemplation on Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Season” is an all-encompassing work of art from every perspective – exploring the seasons paintings through poetry, literature and sound. Originating from a visual piece of art, the musical interpretations meet every aspect of the sceneries, merging their unique approaches and individual styles into one vivid, ever-changing sonic landscape of the recurring cycle of decay and renewal. Sharply mastered by James Plotkin for eternity.
The spearhead “The Gloomy Day” seduces us to open up and give in to being carried away, a dream of a barren winter landscape that invites to calm and to rest while the sounds describe the first buds of spring penetrating the icy ground. Life returns with all its wonders. The relationship between man and nature comprises the leitmotif of the work - and is a cruel one: Albeit winter is the season where life slows down and one may enjoy ice-skating, as seen in the title picture, it is also the time where mankind struggles for survival. The need for hunting in the face of scarce resources, the killing of an animal to secure one’s own survival contrasts the peace and quiet. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: Anemone Tube, Jarl and Monocube directly put their fingers on this ambivalence, aurally contrasting the peaceful scenery with darker tunes, rough electronic patterns that convey tension and unease. These sounds provide a space where we are confronted with the harsh side of the cold, the mere fear of dying while man has no control over the course of seasons. Again, we find rest within more quiet pieces, like “The Return of the Herd”, thus meandering between the sense of natures’ threat and its welcoming, nourishing side. Tunes of silken softness gently touch the conscious and the unconscious, like the autumn sun caressing the golden fields. And while one meditates over the essence of life, surrounded by the vast compositions that reflect the most intimate creative capacities of the three artists, it is where we connect with the core of our humanness and touch upon our own spirituality.
The CD comes in a luxurious 8-panel digifile with embossed cover on high quality natural paper, accompanied by a booklet which includes an essay on Pieter Bruegel’s landscapes by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg & Kim Dohlich, and a poem by Jean Gebser that corroborates the conceptual framework.
credits
released April 5, 2019
Conception, music production and art direction by ANEMONE TUBE
All music recorded, composed, mixed and edited 2013-2018
Graphic design & packaging design by ANEMONE TUBE 2018
Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN 2018
Essay by SVEN SCHLIJPER-KARSSENBERG & KIM DOHLICH 2018
Poem by JEAN GEBSER
Co-released with Aufabwegen
The Epicurean . cure.21 . Aufabwegen . AATP065
Format: CD & download
Playtime: 49:32 min
supported by 15 fans who also own “The Hunters in the Snow – A Contemplation on Pieter Bruegel‘s Series of the Seasons”
Through evocative, bleak atmospheric texture, this album chronicles the creation of “the first fire ever made on Earth that did not have its origin in the Sun”. It shows this to be more than simply the most terrible weapon ever devised, but as the beginning of an epochal rip; a new relationship between humanity and the universe—one dominated by extreme abstraction and haunted by the specter of extermination. Southern Boobook
supported by 14 fans who also own “The Hunters in the Snow – A Contemplation on Pieter Bruegel‘s Series of the Seasons”
Powerful dark ambient/synth. There must be a Morricone circa 'The Thing' influence coming out of the artists here. This album is truly an experience to listen to, and is best engaged with in the dark - lying down, playing loudly. I did this the first time listening to it, while I was sick, at night, and rather than falling asleep I stayed half awake and just melted into it's realms. I don't know where I was taken, but I wasn't in my bed for the duration. A must have album. Archmage Orladin
supported by 14 fans who also own “The Hunters in the Snow – A Contemplation on Pieter Bruegel‘s Series of the Seasons”
Wow. Now & then a "dark ambient" album comes by that instantly captures your imagination totally. For example: Lustmord's Black Stars, Time Machines' eponymous album, and this. There's something literally magical about this, when I listen to it, I feel like I've been placed under some kind of spell, it grabs & holds you from start to end. Maybe it's something about the melancholic, mysterious chordal modes, maybe how the music flows over you & envelopes you in its dark, warm embrace. Spooky! Daniel Ruben