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The Safe Places We Make

by Grasslands

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1.
The Retreating Waves of Susanoo 02:35
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A Small Meadow Act 05:34
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3.
Grasslands feat. Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony & Sotoyoto - Mantranome 06:49
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Crossing The River Stones 04:57
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Grass Dance 03:13
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Intense Grass Meditation 02:46
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The Circuit Breaker 04:04
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The sentiment shows The only one that you know Raising your hands into dead air You are the one that caused the fuss You are the one representing us Ghosts mime as the world begins to break Close the door and don’t look back again These are the safe places we make Push the button and turn it off again The revenant lows Trace the lines the screen shows Ask questions if they rhyme Sit tight, hold your loved ones close tonight (in my mind, my mind) What remains as our days fray away? A circuit breaker will prevent the trend today Remake the safe places we make Push the button and turn it off again Your sentence is known Convoluted and owned Tired verbs on repeat You are the one that caused the fuss You were never the one representing us Every second I need back Stop the noise Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off
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Rejoice! The Dream Cathedral Emerges From The Clouds 03:34
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Amaterasu (Everyone Is The Rising Sun) 14:49
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about

Swindon-based Grasslands’ new LP is a power ambient/down-tempo collection of songs written during the various Covid lockdowns of 2020-2021 and reflects the journey to find inner peace in those incredibly chaotic times.

Tom had just finished work on the ambitious collaboration and location-based project of his previous LP ‘Gorilla Tactics’ when the Covid pandemic took hold, leaving him (and his toy badger) alone and homebound. To cope with the ongoing horrors reflected in the news, Tom took to experimenting with various music equipment setups including vocoders, auto-tune devices and micro-loopers and started performing ambient jam sessions at sunrise and sunset each day, all while recording the near silence of the outside world. The resultant songs make up ‘The Safe Places We Make’ which leans into drone, noise, plunderphonics, power ambience and what a regular Grasslands’ collaborators refers to as ‘8-bit Enya’.

‘The Safe Places We Make’ is a collaboration with the abstract artist & illustrator Bexrah June of Rahford does art – Soul Doodles, who created vibrant illustrations of Grasslands’ extended animal familiars for the front covers of the three previous singles and the LP. The artwork for the LP features the sleeping bodies of two behemoths from Grasslands’ set of characters after they have fought a fierce battle through a city and the city-folk have managed to move them into a sleepy calm state. The tone of the skyline from the LP cover was influenced by William Basinski’s ground-breaking ambient work ‘The Disintegration Loops’ and the art tells a perfect abstract metaphorical story about the challenge to find some form of peace through so much change and overwhelming odds.

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released March 24, 2023

Written, Recorded and Performed by Grasslands

Recorded at Neon Meadow Studios

Artwork by Rahford does art – Soul Doodles

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Grasslands Swindon, UK

Grasslands is musician/producer and ecologist Tom Haynes based in Swindon. Grasslands is a fusion of alternative rock, electronica, found sounds and folk pollinated with information about meadows, grasses and the environment.

Grasslands performs in both electronic form (with his rig of synths, samplers and DJ decks) and as a more gentle acoustic act with acoustic guitar and occasional samples. ... more

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