Firmament, by Museum Of Natural History

Firmament

by Museum Of Natural History

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feth I was so impressed with Firmament that I bought the company. But now I'm stuck on this weird island and I forgot to pack my electric shaver. I'll never get my money back! Favorite track: kid climbed a golden ladder to heaven.

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rd28: Party like it's Warp records 1998 with the album 'FIRMAMENT' on beautified high-fidelity high-colour compact disc. Comes with an 8-page booklet, the full set of tales from Port Igby, a gorgeous photo of the beautiful cat ladybug, and the usual ethereal doodles and biro daydreams.

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	1.	improver 04:30
	2.	seaplane night landing 05:49
	3.	afterhours 03:06
	4.	water from the ace of cups 06:32
	5.	ghost in th' rockpool 03:03
	6.	watched over 02:47
	7.	kid climbed a golden ladder to heaven 04:06

about

rd27: The boats came and went - the first departures were large bittersweet events, the whole town waving them away from the port. New arrivals were heralded into the port with delighted ceremony.

In the following months, though, it became routine. A departure twice a week, two returns every other week. Regular commerce and trade was established between other villages and cultures in the archipelago. Some of the townspeople never returned, only seen again in silent smiling reflections trapped in quiet corners of the beach. While the townspeople poured out to the world, new knowledge, custom and engineering flowed back into the village.

An age of aviation arrived, rickety biplanes, hot air balloons, zeppelins and seaplanes crowding the skies.

Maybe it was the seaplanes that did it: the quiet academics and homebound philosophers of the museum who stayed behind were compelled now to turn heads skyward at the sound of roaring engines out over the water. First eyes, then newly-constructed telescopes and observatories swivelled upwards. The townspeople became fascinated by the scope of the infinite cosmos above them and as they gazed up, something eternal gazed back and the world around them changed.

During the days strange cloud drifts formed and broke apart. Rainstorms crashed and thunder boomed from clear blue skies. At night, stars wheeled around irregularly, removed from any calculable orbit or pattern. In the dark forests around the village glowing fireflies hinted at odd, golden-bronze entities further off in the gloom. Spotlights and huge cameras were mounted, traps cautiously set, but the creatures always remained just out of sight, impossible to recognise or define.

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released April 7, 2022

Villager 1 - Kawai FS680, live percussion.
Villager 2 - Volca Lead, noise generation.

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ROTTEN DEVICE Adelaide, Australia

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discography

Coastal EP

Mar 2024
Firmament

Apr 2022
Eve Of Destruction

Sep 2021
Don't Run

Jan 2023
Drifts Tape

May 2021
Ecotone

Dec 2021
Unholy Dream

Nov 2020
Demo Tape

May 2020
Easy

Feb 2020
Mammon Machine

Dec 2021

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