Folder #09 by the volume settings folder

the volume setting folder is a project born first and foremost to forget an ex.
it developed to become a very personal relationship with music, and this 100th release is just one last tile on a mosaic that is full of nuances, where you can trace back an evolution in style, instrumentation, and influences.

having Folder #09 as the 100th release was not planned but it turns out to be one happy coincidence. when I started it I was inspired by an anonymous artist who published 13 "Untitled" ambient albums on Boomkat, all in a yellow-ish 1950s post-like blank paper envelope, CDr format. I was so very captured by both the lo-fi quality of the music, its very intimate feeling and aesthetics. I really wanted to have something like that as the volume settings folder.

all the "Folder" releases can be grouped in triads. #01 to #03 share a very minimal, more polished vibe; #04 to #06 a heavy modern-classical and post-rock influence; #07 to #09 a love for tapes and open compositions.
as always there's an homage in the graphic design to my land (if you flip and align the insides of Folder #07, #08 and #09 you will obtain a map of the Dolomites, not far from where I live) and family (yep, that fierce boy in the very middle of the cover is my dad, holding a bottle of beer probably in his teens, 1950s Italy, surrounded by friends).

this is an homage to the past that was and the past we can only imagine, to the feeling of nostalgia some of us always seek and can only find through smell, images, music.

since 2011, an ambient / drone / post-rock music project developed by M. Beckmann. sketch and improv attitude to get sudden ambience.

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