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The Volume Settings Folder
12+ albums
ambientdronepost-rockexperimentalfield recordings
about
“the volume settings folder” is italian guitarist M. Beckmann’s latest project, consisting in ambient, drone, post-rock music with a bit of field recordings and Noise. Despite a bunch of good – and also successful – ambient/drone/experimental names coming from the mediterranean country, it’s quite difficult to find an audience for this music and try to “grow a proper musical style” with low budget. On the other hand it’s very motivational. M. Beckmann started playing guitar quite “late”, aged 16, in a time when most of radio-aired music were grunge and metal. Sigur Ros records, especially the Untitled album “( )”, slowly changed his vision and approach to music. Drowned into post rock bands like [ Mono ], [ Mogwai ], [ The Album Leaf ] and at the same time loving the experimental sides of metal, starting from [ Isis ] to [ Jesu ], [ Earth ] and [ Sunn O))) ], Beckmann left no paths unexplored: the so called IDM scene, easy listening, german electronic and ambient/drone music from tons of artists [ Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin, Alva Noto, Pjusk, Svarte Greiner, Machinefabriek ], the whole 12K roster among many others) and some “nu-jazz” from norway filled the gaps of a growing musical acknowledgment. All these listenings were shared with friends, in the almost-foggy countryside of north-east Italy. By the early 2009 he formed with them a “collective of 6 musicians and artists” called Dört: electronica, trip-hop, electro acoustic, post-rock stuff and live visuals. The project
