A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake

by Erik Kramer

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Cardian Matsu How can a single artist have so many different, strong ways to express themselves? It almost feels unfair listening to AHFITMOAL, all of these finely developed styles and experiments into folk, drone, and ambient compositions seeming as if they came into existence with ease.

Opening with a long, new age inspired track and closing with a tender, short delve into simple strumming and folk ballad singing, everything feels so huge in scope, yet mind-bogglingly cohesive in what it has to say. Favorite track: Map.

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2.	Ghost Of The Harvest 03:27	buy track
3.	Face Of God On The Forest Floor 04:25	buy track
4.	The Wind At Your Back 12:42	buy track
5.	Grass Burning In The Palm 03:17	buy track
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7.	For Bruce Langhorne 04:56	buy track
8.	Salt Creek 10:18	buy track
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A House, Floating In The Middle Of A Lake is the debut release of Erik Kramer from Madison, Wisconsin. It's a collection of folk abstractions, new age textures, guitar soli, and pastoral ambience, all with a focus on the blending of organic and synthetic sound realms.

AHFITMOAL is also the debut release from Anthropocene Recordings.
The Anthropocene is a name for our present geologic epoch, a time where the ecological-social impact of capitalism has made (and, without
serious intervention, will continue to make) our Earth a profoundly different place. Anthropocene Recordings will exist as a home for music whose inspiration comes from the natural world and its entanglements, both material and spiritual, in human cultures.

"A House, Floating in the Middle of the Lake may resemble a separation of ideals, but it also seems to symbolize the erosion of our land — both caused by our own hands or forceful done by others who benefit from tearing us apart (again). Kramer creates a tune so forlorn, and yet, so beautiful (“Face of God on the Forest Floor”) and then follows up its eco-spirituality with the destructive (“The Wind at Your Back”), a song that is a steady drone gale that dares the listener to stand up to its ecological force. But much like the resulting folk (r)evolution, the genre (as broad as it is) seems to be looking to echo destruction rather than to proactively speak against it, as if to give us the real sound of our fate rather than thoughts of cautious protest."
- Justin Spicer, Tiny Mix Tapes (www.tinymixtapes.com/cerberus/erik-kramer-house-floating-middle-lake)

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released July 28, 2017

Written and recorded by Erik Kramer between 2012-2017 in Madison, WI, Brookfield, IL, and London, UK
"Ghost Of The Harvest" contains samples from The Wind Harp- "Harvest" (Song From The Hill, 1972) and from Ingmar Bergman's Persona
"Grass Burning In The Palm" features Alex Ferron on bass and sax and Marty Gross on banjo, knives, and incantations
"Gayatri" features Zack Stafford on electronics
Mastered by Collin Gorman Weiland

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