Deertrail to a Secret Place: Works from a Mythical Ensemble 2009-2019

by Ben Livingston

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Petrichor Inverness is such a special place and this music wraps me in it everytime. I've taken to playing it in my dye studio while I work and it just feels like magic. Thank you for your offerings.

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1.	Unsick/Blue Sky/Calm Bay 09:35	buy track
2.	Granite Spine; Flecked with Mugwort 06:25	buy track
3.	Koxoenis Dreams a Deer 07:08	buy track
4.	Deertrail to a Secret Place 10:48	buy track
5.	Her Wings Still Lie in the Field 06:13	buy track
6.	I Gather the Small Waters to Me 06:25	buy track
7.	River Running Uphill 05:55	buy track
8.	Unprocessed Spirit Data 08:20	buy track
9.	Breathing Meadow 05:00	buy track
10.	Nebulous Sky, Newborn Stone 10:40	buy track

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This is music that aims to be fully of the place it was made - the West Marin landscape, unceded Coast Miwok territory. These are experimental instrumental journeys that stem from extensive bushwhacking and attentiveness to birdsong, the ways the wind moves through the trees, mugwort-dreaming plant magic. The styles range from solo guitar explorations to impressionistic ambient soundscapes, deeply textural drone and raga-like melodic rivers. Embracing spontaneity and imperfections. Hummingbird songs. Coyote songs. Music unfolding like a tree's roots searching through the soil for nutrients. Or something. I'm not sure what function this music has in this newly emergent paradigm we are entering into, but I hope it can bring about moments of introspection and reverence for the animateness of this beautiful world.

Deertrail to a Secret Place is an archival collection of recordings selected from earlier albums, given fresh mixes and remastered by Jeremy Harris.

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released October 1, 2020

Ben Livingston: All instruments, recording, production, etc.
Jeremy Harris: Mixing and Mastering

Recorded in Inverness from 2009-2019.

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Ben Livingston Inverness, California

Ben Livingston makes landscape conversant bio-regional instrumental music in Coast Miwok territory. He is also a vegetable farmer and an editor/publisher of the Inverness Almanac and Mount Vision Press

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