Rural Space Music

Michael Futreal

Michael uses homemade instruments and more in wide variety of instrumental approaches including landscape meditations, Appalachian conjurings, and crooked shingigs. Michael also dabbles in animation and other filmmaking.

Check out music from Michael's trio, Twang Darkly.

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Discography

Ozymandias

Ozymandias (2021)
Guitars, chromatic dulcimers, bamboo flutes, electric gourd, and more — a sonic journey told by a traveler from an antique land.

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Piper at the Gates of Dusk

Piper at the Gates of Dusk (2020)
Gourd flutes, overtone flutes, electric gourd, and other contraptions abound on this collection from the Appalachian end of the solar system.

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Woodshed

Woodshed (2017)
Music contemplating a variety of settings: Appalachia, The Avian Kingdom, the Great Basin, and a few otherworldly locations.

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The Court of King Skebal

The Court of King Skebal (2016)
Ambient and experimental music from my sci-fi/fantasy museum exhibition with salvage artist Steve Zihlavsky.

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Counting for Thunder

Counting for Thunder
(recorded 2013-14, released 2016)
Original score for the independent feature film.

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find out more or watch the film