Vanitas, by Michael Begg

Vanitas

by Michael Begg

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1.	Invocation: Solfeggio Sonification, Lunar Eclipse, March 21st, 1513 03:08	buy track
2.	Identity Cards 03:50	buy track
3.	Glass On Glass 07:19	buy track
4.	First Night In Mexico, a dream 03:44	buy track
5.	The Little Shoes, for piano 02:09	buy track
6.	Your Papers Are Approved 05:01	buy track
7.	Outboard 05:48	buy track
8.	Black Hill 07:44	buy track
9.	Have Faith 05:15	buy track
10.	Vanitas End Papers 05:13	buy track
11.	1983, 0200 Hours 13:12	buy track
12.	Black Hill End Coda 01:27	buy track

credits

released May 6, 2019

All work, written and arranged by Michael Begg
All instruments built by Michael Begg
The Black Glass Ensemble appear on track three

Cover painting: Vanitas by Edwaert Collier

“Over the years Michael Begg has brought us some great works, crossing borders - from atonal quietness to orchestral expansiveness… keeps the listener captivated on a coherent album that makes great sense.”
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

"it’s remarkable to ponder how accomplished and visionary his work is… A gorgeous sound palette which he uses to paint tantalising shadow realms and infinite night skies"
Norman Records

“Glorious. Magnificent work.”
John Kealy

“I’ve just listened to Vanitas and I'm blown away. It's a hugely immersive work - I quite lost track of a sense of time. At turns heartbreaking, melancholic, unsettling, uplifting and transportative, it has a deeply emotional resonance. I think this is going to be one of my favourite Human Greed/ Michael Begg releases.”
Grey Malkin, The Hare And The Moon

“The music he creates with his ‘cheap tools’ and his ‘doomed junk instruments’ bears every sign of a brilliantly creative composer… the kind of artist that does not conform to imposed rules but pushes the boundaries into unknown territories to be explored.”
Ambient Blog

“He paints the nostalgic panoramas of his dreams in a tranquil, subtle but extremely exciting way with tender brush strokes. It is all of unprecedented, fragile beauty.”
Subjectivisten / The Shadow Cabinet (NL)

There are few more nocturnal musicians than Michael Begg. I do not exaggerate when I place him in a high firmament alongside Arvo Pärt and Coil. Begg’s is a music to make the twilight last, and in that liminal area he sets his table. We listen and shudder, while we still have the time.
Denis Boyer, Feardrop (Fr)

“Decadent flows intertwine with filaments of imploding chaos and soaring drones… Essential and penetrating.”
Paolo Bertoni, Blow Up (IT)

“Meditative and reverential… Wondrous and startling”
Compulsion Online

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