Noon Wine Format:DVD Imperium Mortalia spans eight compositions

Imperium Mortalia spans eight compositions that reckon with the grim relationship between the individual and the state

and features an ensemble of North America's finest roots musicians

Also recorded for the first time is the 1st String Quartet by Christoph Staude

There is anger

Noon Wine Format:DVD Imperium Mortalia spans eight compositionsRoyal Earle Thompson owns a dairy farm in southern Texas during the late 1890s. His farm is fairly unproductive, due in part to Thompson's laziness and distaste for most of the required labor on a farm. Thompson lives with his wife, Ellie, and two small sons, and while Ellie is continually ill, she does her best to perform her domestic duties around the farm. One day, Olaf Helton presents himself at the farm and the taciturn Swede asks Farmer Thompson