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was released on 28 May 2007. with the biggest lineup then to date. More than 30 musicians worked on the fourth album. However, a token performance on a single track will list someone on the booklet as a full-fledged member. The band members also do not make money out of the project, and do not
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minor details on it. The band members also do not work all together, but rather in small groups, exchanging material they record with others. The music
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was released. Many bands, such as Van Langen, Thiasos
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album was released in 2004. Because of what the band perceived as the poor quality of this record, Folkearth decided to remaster and reissue their debut. On 1 August 2006, shortly after the reissue of
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The history of the group began in
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