Artist : Bersarin Quartett
Album : III
Year : 2015
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 228kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 53m
Size : 91.76mb
Label : Denovali
Catalognr : DEN246CD
Tracklist:
01. Verflossen Ist Das Gold Der Tage 3:33
02. Staub Und Sterne 4:31
03. Hinter Uns Die Wirklichkeit 4:13
04. Bedingungslos 4:17
05. Die NΣchte Sind Erfⁿllt Von Maskenfesten 5:11
06. Umschlungen Von Milliarden 4:47
07. Sanft Verblassen Die Geschichten 3:08
08. Es Ist Alles Schon Gesagt 4:54
09. Swcharzer Regen FΣllt 4:39
10. Jeder Gedanke Umsonst Gedacht 5:11
11. Welche Welt 5:36
12. Ist Es Das, Was Du Willst 3:16
Releasenotes:
Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of
the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was
considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In
fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be
caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern
interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to
the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this
context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and
cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us
melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to
envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory
systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in
a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us
melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and
sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line
by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating
music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that
BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bucker - is one of
them.
After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 -
album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists -
Bucker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release
6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure
paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every
element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field
recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is
meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bucker's vast but still
minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bucker's pieces seem to radiate a
certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and
liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them.
This transcendence is precisely the point where Bucker ironically looses control
over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III
offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the
arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic
grandeur of Bucker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a
description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a
defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum
of human states of mind which one can bear forever.
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