Dworzec from Comfort by Nansea

The second song of the EP, Dworzec, is one for which I borrowed a poem by Polish Nobel Prize Laureate Wisława Szymborska. In Dworzec (Railroad Station), she creates a narrator that observes an every-daily scene, but instead of describing what happens, they describe what does not happen: „While they kissed, with not our lips, a suitcase disappeared, not mine“ With this negation, she manages to ask an existential question: What would the world be like if we had never existed? Would it be just the same? Szymborska makes us think: 'are we just vessels who fulfill an incidental destiny, actors in a play whose cast is interchangeable? This seemingly fatalistic attitude has a motivational aspect: By realizing we might be replaceable, we also realize that it's up to us to live up to the responsibility that is entailed in being alive.

Nansea (ˈnænsi) is the musical moniker of Berlin-based musician Marek Polgesek. With their music, they create a queer indie/chamber pop sound that goes beyond the traditional singer-songwriter style, while paying tribute to gender nonconforming artists that inspire them. Their sound has been described as a ‘more whimsical Rufus Wainwright' and reminiscent of Thom Yorke and Sufjan Stevens.