The Hand that's Closest the Heart

by Landschaft

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1.	Song for Vini 04:39	info	buy track
2.	The Hand that's Closest the Heart 10:54	info	buy track
3.	In the Dark Pool 13:18	info	buy track
4.	Transported 10:23		buy track
5.	The Hand that's Closest the Heart - reduction 10:54		buy track
6.	Song for Vini - return 02:12		buy track

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Well here we are again, another Landschaft album; no 32. Like my other releases there is a back-story. It's a jigsaw puzzle of influences and references; among them: Killing Joke (layered grind-riffing), Hendrix (in full improv mode)' Section 25 (meandering, mesmeric), Joy Division (whip-crack snare and punchy kicks), Sleep (Dopesmoker - loud and long), Zappa (complex polyrhythms), Durutti Column (the start and end pieces).

For the first time Landschaft is in classic band format: guitar, bass, drums, synth. No vocals (yet as I don't have a mic).

All of that cooked up into a genre hybrid I could describe as math-rock, ambient doom metal, djent... Marking that swing in creative direction, this is the first album with me on the cover art, here in nineteenth century trawlerman mode.

The title, 'The Hand that's Closest the Heart', deserves explanation. For anyone wishing to explore the context, see p294/5 of Richard Bradford's biography of Alan Sillitoe, and draw your own conclusions as to how it ties into the Landschaft lens of enquiry.

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released October 7, 2022

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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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