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Unzufriedener Rabe. Haiku

by Allerseelen

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Allerseelen: Unzufriedener Rabe. Haiku. Klangkapsel 031.

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"Klangkapsel / Sound Capsule 031 is a haiku song by Allerseelen named Unzufriedener Rabe (Dissatisfied Raven). It is the fifth in a cycle of haiku songs that, when finished, will be released as a proper release. Ravens have played in the past an essential role in various recordings by Allerseelen. An entire early cassette and later CD release was called Schwartzer Rab (Black Raven). The main inspiration was its significance in alchemy, mythology and shamanism, but also in Dark Romanticism. Inside a small Austrian wood, full of ferns, ivy and moss, close to a small dark lake, I had noticed a raven. For some reason I had the impression that it felt dissatisfied. But this was probably just my own imagination: The raven had become a kind of black mirror that reflected my own emotions and thoughts, a certain discontent and melancholy inside my own psyche. The raven seemed to search or to wait for something - in vain. The lyrics of this song have the form of a Japanese haiku - five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. Thus they are even more minimal than many other Allerseelen lyrics. Haikus are a microcosm. they are stills from a movie named reality, single frames of a small detail or short moment that exists only for a couple of seconds. Others would not even notice it or consider worth mentioning it. But a haiku poetess or poet, having fallen in love with it, turns in the seventeen syllables of a haiku this small or hidden or even invisible detail or moment into something timeless, eternal, immortal." (Gerhard Hallstatt 10.11.2023)

"Zufriedenheit ist meine Speise nicht. Contentment is not my dish." (Hermann Hesse)

Bass: Marcel P.
Violin: Erich Zann.
Music, vocals: Gerhard Hallstatt.
Recorded at Haus zur letzten Latern by Gerhard Hallstatt.
Produced and mastered at Dungeon Studio (Rhenania) by Marcel P.

auch Du kommst jetzt vor
unzufriedener Rabe
in diesem Haiku

now you appear too
you dissatisfied raven
inside this haiku

07.01.2023
Gerhard Hallstatt


The early cassette by Allerseelen Schwartzer Rab was re-released in 2014 as CD by Ahnstern / Aorta and 2019 again as cassette by :retortae: with some additional recordings.

www.discogs.com/master/30973-Allerseelen-Schwartzer-Rab

retortae.bandcamp.com/album/fr-hgeschichte-i-schwartzer-rab-arkaisk-edition

Another song named Schwartzer Rab, based on some lines from an alchemical tract, is on the CD Hallstatt:
allerseelen.bandcamp.com/track/schwartzer-rab

Photo: Unzufriedener Rabe. Dissatisfied Raven c Gerhard Hallstatt 28.02.2007

Stundenglas / Hourglass is a special subscription project by the Austrian project Allerseelen that has been active for many years in a unique field of force between ritual music, industrial music, neofolk and krautpop.

The subscribers receive in 52 weeks 52 sound capsules. These are exclusive compositions, live recordings, soundscapes or works in progress with a certain timeless quality. Each mp3 has a length between 30 and 300 seconds, available via e-mail or WeTransfer.

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released November 8, 2023

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