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Music For People Who Need To Calm Down

by Magna Frisia

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Note - The album is built around American radioplays from the 40's, the 50's, and the 60's - all in the Public Domain. Headphones recommended.


Influences of my youth on Magna Frisia and all my later art :

01 - I was born as the youngest son of a farmer in the North of The Netherlands, Western Europe. In the year 1959 we moved to a huge farm ( at least for me as a kid it was ) about a mile from the nearest village. For me the next years to come were like heaven - they pretty much shaped my current artistry.

The thing I remember most about that time was sitting silently somewhere in this huge barn directly connected to the house we lived in. As the first years passed by so did the seasons - and the lights... they dimmed... November came... December came... And there I was : listening now in almost complete darkness to the omnipotent sound of the wind, the massive rain on the massive roof - and in the far away distance ( don't forget - I was only a kid at the time ) my mother's voice, almost certainly praising The Lord. What I remember most about her voice was when she finished a song - in one long last vibrating breath...

Today ( 50 years later ) you will find elements as mentioned above in all my art : distant, almost alienated voices - the omnipotent sound of the softly howling wind ; waves of Nostalgia, and waves of Melancholy.

02 - When I was a young kid I used to sit a lot at the side of the road in front of our farm. For a few stretching miles to all directions of the wind there was basically nothing - but the Frisian lowlands. Totally at random someone seemed to have thrown in a couple of farms; the first b-road along our farm was only laid out somewhere in 1965. Before and after there was the overwhelming silence of the lands. I remember especially the early days of March - when everywhere around us the lowlands ( finally ) defrosted, sometimes in early spring days without any trace of wind whatsoever. Special also where those extraordinay silent days in late September, early October - as we were all watching the skies for the first storms to arrive.

Today ( 50 years later ) you will find elements as mentioned above in all my art : the overwhelming waves of silence, the slowly passing of time ( coming to a complete standstill - I like that! ), and the sounds/noise of Nature.

03 - I remember it well : my first addiction > the transistorradio. Already when I was 8 years old I carried it with me like it was a smartphone covering the most valuable information ever - and it did. The quality of AM radio was influenced by so many things, I only mention thunder and lightning. And I quickly got addicted... to the Static, the Noise, the Fuzz, and the Buzz...

Also I was there when a pirate radio station while drifting on The North Sea launched The Animals' The House Of The Rising Sun, I was there when they launched Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone, I was there when they launched The Velvet Underground's 'banana' album, I was there when they launched The Stones' Satisfaction ( I Can't Get No ), I was there when they launched The Beatles' Revolver album, I was there when they launched The Who's My Generation, I was there when they launched Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale, I was there when...

But most of all I got addicted to the Static, the Noise, the Fuzz, the Buzz, the wear and tear of vinyl... It was only a matter of time for this addiction to return - so here we are : the mind-boggling perfection of the digital era reaching out to a now close to mythical past, only to shake hands and say: has actually anything changed at all?

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released January 31, 2019

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Magna Frisia Amsterdam, Netherlands

Johannes Breeuwsma is an Amsterdam based underground sound artist , and has been so for the past 29 years. He has always focused on creating in solitude and independence - living a self-chosen life in "shadows and beyond".

Magna Frisia is his latest main project.
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