Allerseelen: Kleine Wellen. Haiku. Klangkapsel 024.
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"Klangkapsel / Sound Capsule 024 is a message in a bottle that contains the slow and melancholic Allerseelen song Kleine Wellen (Little Waves). Its lyrics were written at the Danube in Austria. Not only swans came close to ask for bread - it also seemed that thousands of little waves had a similar wish, asking for bread too. Or had they a desire for something much more immaterial, some intangible cultural heritage? Maybe they were just curious, maybe they asked for a haiku, a song. But maybe their wish was just some kind of seppuku wish, to touch the coast, to end at the mainland, the terra firma. Were they waves, were they particles? I thought of the wave-particle duality. The lyrics were written in the form of a Japanese haiku - five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables - which means that they are even more minimal than many other Allerseelen poems. What are words, what are syllables? Are they at the same time particles and waves too exerting their effects on the human physis and psyche? In this haiku song I am accompanied again by the dreamlike and pensive bass play by friend and fellow-musician Marcel P. This challenge of setting haikus to music will continue as I wrote in the meantime some more haikus. After the CD Toteninsel and the DoLP Abenteuerliches Herz, there are plans for a full Allerseelen CD with haiku songs. Details in one of the next messages in a bottle." (Gerhard Hallstatt 02.07.2023)
Bass: Marcel P.
Music, vocals: Gerhard Hallstatt.
Recorded at Haus zur letzten Latern by Gerhard Hallstatt.
Mastered at Dungeon Studio (Rhenania) by Marcel P.
die kleinen Wellen
kommen zu mir ans Ufer
als wollten sie Brot
the little waves
coming to me at the coast
do they ask for bread
17.01.2023
Gerhard Hallstatt
Photograph: Acharavi, Korfu c Gerhard Hallstatt 11.09.2019
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released July 2, 2023