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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

H.M.

In another place another sense of time
Creation in my eyes

Slip as tethers fade
Tune a frequency and glide
Beyond this mortal fire

Other single states
Left drifting in the wake
Still a unity of one

Stepping back to view
A frame extending on all sides
Creation in my eyes

We are too young too innocent to see what is
Right before our eyes
Nothing before, nothing will end
We never truly die
Like a spark of energy cries
For life and ignites one day we’ll realize
That all worlds must collide

Gotts Street Park + Lorn & Dolor + Blut Own + Elegy No.2.

The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.

R.C.

Action is a disease of thought, a cancer of the imagination. To act is to exile oneself. Every action is incomplete and imperfect. The poem that I dream is faultless until I try to write it down.

F. P.

Science compels us to explode the sun.

Outer Wilds

This album is, for all intents and purposes, is an homage to classic ambient and ambient techno albums of the past (of course filtered through the distinctive sound world of The Green Kingdom). This is not to say that the aim was to recreate or mimic the sound of these recordings, but rather the feeling they create through the use of sustained tones, repetition, melody and texture.

As indicated by the title, these pieces are meant to evoke vast and expansive environments, either real or imagined. These landscapes can often provide a sense of calm and wonder at our relative insignificance in comparison to the majestic grandeur of the larger universe all around us. Although the cover is one example of such a landscape, the tracks remain untitled in hope that the listener might attach their own associations.

Mike Cottone is a graphic designer and musician based in Detroit Michigan. Under The Green Kingdom moniker, he produces minimal ambient music using a variety of digitally manipulated sounds sourced from a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments.

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