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Todd Tobias
Tristes Tropiques

Album NL 2015 on Tiny Room Records label
Electronic and Rock (Avant-garde, Art Rock, Ethereal, Ambient)

IF we visit a place once inhabited by a lost culture, we can open a door to the deep past if we remember that every feature of the landscape was once part of a story or imbued with sacred meanings. There may still be human beings living in that place - people who have forgotten the story- worlds of their ancestors - but somehow the forest, the river, the island, the desert, or the mountain remembers. With this collection of music, my aim is to give shape to the shapeless melancholy hanging in the air in places where organic human culture has vanished or is on the decline. Because I am a distant observer of so-called primitive cultures, this has been a romantic exercise. TRISTES TROPIQUES From the title of the book by French Anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss. The literal translation is Sad Tropics. The English version of the title is World On The Wane, referring to the vanishing culture-worlds of the last remaining small-scale societies on Earth - those in the process of being swallowed by an ever expanding global civilization. Most of these iso- lated cultures are found in the tropic belt, hence the title. The music on this album is not inspired directly by the book itself, I simply borrowed the title. -Todd Tobias Written, performed and recorded by Todd Tobias. toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com Tiny Room Records 2015 / TR005 / tinyroom.nl Publishing by Hidden Shoal / hiddenshoal.com Thanks to Stefan Breuer, Thijs Kuijken and Cam Merton.

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