Shotfiring in Coalmines

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‘Shotfiring in Coalmines’ marks a return to my ambient style, deep and dark. It is informed by the geography, geology and history beneath my feet. I am, as the crow flies within a few hundred meters of eight former coal mine pitheads. As a youth, the pits were closing, the miner’s strike was in full swing, society was about to pivot away from heavy industry courtesy of Thatcher era policies that some may see as fortuitous; those at the blunt end, less so. This work reflects my recollection of those times. Younger, lying in bed hearing or rather feeling the occasional crump of shotfiring beneath me in the seams and tunnels below; hearing the clack-clack of coal wagons on the Leen Valley line at the bottom of the road pulling away from the stop signal; terrified as a four year old on the footplate of a vast steam locomotive, as the coal was shoveled into the flaming maw fired by my uncle Ted.

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released January 11, 2023

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Landschaft UK

Landschaft formed in 2003 is Alan Walker based in Nottingham, England and cyberspace. A continuation of earlier incarnations starting in the early '80s with my foundation work 'Ghost Images of Forgotten Skyscrapers'.

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