Die Wand by Malo Moray & His Inflatable Knee

"DIE WAND" IS MY RELEASE OF THE MONTH IN FEBRUARY. "Die Dinge geschehen eben und ich suche, wie Millionen Menschen vor mir, in ihnen einen Sinn, weil meine Eitelkeit nicht gestatten will, zuzugeben, daß der ganze Sinn eines Geschehnisses in ihm selbst liegt. Kein Käfer, den ich achtlos zertrete, wird in diesem, für ihn traurigen Ereignis einen geheimnisvollen Zusammenhang von universeller Bedeutung sehen. Er war in dem Augenblick unter meinem Fuß, als ich niedertrat; Wohlbehagen im Licht, ein kurzer schriller Schmerz und Nichts." Marlen Haushof in "Die Wand"

One of the most intense reads I might have ever had is DIE WAND by Marlen Haushofer. A woman gets trapped inside an invisible wall on a small piece of land somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the alpes. Outside this wall all life seems to have stopped. To survive she starts writing a journal - roominating her depressive mind in a situation full of natural beauty and personal despair; in the novel Haushofer finds incredibly strong and magically tentive imagery depicting the endless loneliness of a person that seems to have lost contact to all life surrounding her. All loss and retraction. In her enchanting melancholic metaphor of this novel Haushofer creates an incredibly dense and compelling feel for the mind of her protagonist. Carrying this motion inside my heart, I sat down and played the music that you hear. (What you hear is my cello, electric bass processed with live electronics and a screwdriver.)

Malo Moray celebrates slowness and curiosity in his Music, with inimitable depth and clarity. He dives deep into the worlds between ambient, krautrock and jazz; with double bass and electronics, developing an intriguing pull into his sonic world. His art is a revelation of creativity and deceleration - rooted somewhere between Brian Eno, Faust, Sunn O))) and the Soundwalk Collective.

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