East and beyond was released in June 2010 and is Land's third album. It closes some way a trilogy which beginned with The Sand Corridor and Mountain Grace about the search of oneself in travels, in "aways".
The album is inspired by memories and tales of journeys in the East, and especially to India along the ancient silk roads which became in the 1960s the hippie trail and prefigurated mass tourism. The music refers to this period.
Also inspired by L'Impossible Voyage of Marc Augé, East and beyond is a reflexion about the illusions of travels. What does one actually see? What does one try to find, others, elsewheres or oneself? Is travelling only a stage-setting, a picture of oneself posing and moving in a landscape?
Is the East only a larger view of oneself in the world, a picture, a projection? Oneself against an other, a strangeness?
Can one go beyond these pictures? How to build another relation between oneself and the world, this geopoetry discribed by Kenneth White in The Intellectual Nomad? How to catch this beauty that lies in places where we move and that gets into us, makes us?
A box, some objects, some memories that rise, take shape and change. What have you seen? What have you lived during this journey?
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