"In the last few years I have travelled
more than ever before in my life. Physically, in terms of seeing
foreign countries, walking through wastelands, kissing new friends
goodbye in distant airports, as well as mentally, just gathering new
experiences and insights.. And sometimes I managed to record those
journeys, let some of those moments curdle into sound and song. Those
acoustic artefacts of different points in time and space now lie on
my desk like postcards that I bought and lettered yet never sent. Now if I were to travel back in time to
those points that were significant, where would I end up? What's
written on those postcards that I'd find now that I forgot about? I'm not quite sure, but either way it's
time to go and send them, one by one, until we have a collection that
traces the steps on this journey. The trip starts on an island in the
Baltic, summer 2010, will continue to spring in Turkey, move back
home from there.. and end in Berlin as we move from past to present
tense. It will contain songs about apocalypse played on water bottles
and resonating flintstones, the very first attempts to play a piano,
explorations of vocal music, discoveries of new instruments, songs
about yearning for departure and songs about return. You will see, as each month from now
until the end of the year, you will receive a bunch of mixed and
mastered memories from me." (Entertainment for the Braindead)
Alcune release hanno il pregio di arricchire la mia cultura geografica e di portarmi a scoprire alcuni luoghi finora a me sconosciuti.
E' il caso di "Postcard #1: Songs for the Apocalypse"di E.F.T.B. Quattro tracce scritte e
registrate nel 2010 a Hiddensee, un'isola tedesca nel Mar
Baltico, località di villeggiatura molto amata dagli scrittori,
luogo pacifico e interdetto alle automobili. Barche a remi e canti di
gabbiani, la voce del silenzio che ti sussurra la sua beatitudine.
Una chitarra acustica che racconta con semplice serenità il suo
stato d'animo appagato. Melodie e armonizzazioni vocali che mi
offrono sfocate visioni di esseri umani in ginocchio intenti a
pregare e a sperare in un mondo in cui il suono delle monete e delle
guerre economiche senza spari ed esplosioni siano solo un cattivo
ricordo. "Hiddensee" è una leggera e salutare medicina contro lo
stress quotidiano. A volte bastano quattro brani come questi per
sentirsi meglio.
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| Entertainment for the Braindead |
Label: Self released
Style: Acoustic/Ambient/Folk
Date: September 02, 2012
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