The Painters Long March to The Lost Land

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HA! Hanging out in the musical bubble with solemnland is akin to being in the quiet company of a master photographer whose keen eye could be focused on the horizon, or a nearby leaf, or perhaps both. He focuses, clicks, and later you discover he saw something more than your own eyes could comprehend in the moment. His music draws in everything with measured consideration and zero fanfare; the grandeur of what he does becomes self-evident without ever pushing or prompting. A master.

Belial Pelegrim Such a great concept and equally brilliant compositional alignment. The pacing works wonderfully in pulling the listener into this world of detailed synth and piano motifs. A truly original work! Favorite track: Sex Landscape.

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1.	The Ignorant Must Have Their Way 09:16		buy track
2.	Voce Velata / Voce Phosphor 06:39	info	buy track
3.	Mornese 00:56	info	buy track
4.	Map Under Skin 05:13		buy track
5.	Water 02:31		buy track
6.	Food 02:18	info	buy track
7.	Sex Landscape 09:31		buy track
8.	Sardonic Weather 04:52		buy track
9.	The Albigensian 01:01		buy track
10.	The Pallete Eats the Paint 04:55		buy track
11.	Montsegur 03:35		buy track
12.	Fragrant Dream of Quotation 08:25	info	buy track
13.	The Land, The Quiet (Short Version) 05:57		buy track

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Musical interpretation of the known events of the Middle Ages painter - possibly Pietro Eco, as he in a fit of anger and a miasma of despair undertook a passage to a "New Land" of sunrise, wine of a "new day", and women both holier and more profane. We believe he painted his way possibly from Monsampolo del Tronto or Borgo Quinzio, west and north, selling works and preaching both the salvation in philosophy and the dissolution of the flesh resulting from narrow-mindedness. He may have escaped floggings, a hanging, castration and the loss of his painting hand by the deft craft of poetic soliliquy.
The facts are scarce.
After a possible 12 year pilgrimage he is thought to arrived in Montsegur. The year was 1243.
This is a musical sketching out of Middle Ages life most decidedly not presented with period correct instruments. Proficiency in the shawm, the sackbut The rebec or the psalterium is not on display here but rather electronic keyboards attempting to suggest the time and flavour of that distant past.
Thanks to Umberto Eco (for Baudalino)
Jordi Savall ('The Forgotten Kingdom')
Bernard Cornwell, David Herlihy, Mr. Rick Wakeman, The Renaissance Festival (RIP), and David Malouf (of course!)

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released July 1, 2021

Keyboards - Raymond Tani
Artwork - RT
Recorded Spring '21.
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Free-classical by inclination.
Experimental Piano
Electronic music
Absolutely nothing in common with anyone, anywhere.
Music taken seriously

21st century tone poems..
Releases also under the name Raymond Tani. ... more

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