Mon May 23, 2016
20:30

Maja Osojnik 'A.t.t.w.a.' (SL/A/USA)

Maja Osojnik: vocals, paetzold bass recorder, electronics
Audrey Chen: vocals, cello, electronics
Raumschiff Engelmayr: e-gitarre
Matija Schellander: double bass, modular synthesizer, electronics
Manu Mayr: double bass, e-bass
Lukas König: drums, synthesizer

This record is CATHEDRAL. It is an underwater-record. It is a night-record. It is a red-wine-record. It is a Dancer-In-The-Dark-record, also because the music is very often machine-like. It is a retreat-record, I think, it sounds like it, maybe even a fleeing-record, an escape from the social, the general social, into the self, where only the special and the particular people are allowed and where work is possible (to be accomplished) – this record – that serves itself. Because, outside of this self-place, that you have to create, that you have to occupy, that is not given to you but steadily challenged, it’s more like Severin Heilmann writes in Streifzüge No. 65 : The puropse of work is rarely the work itself, it rather equips one financially to recover from it in his or her free time. Thus one’s free time has not itself as content but one’s maintenance for work. Which inevitably entails that neither in work nor in free time one can devote oneself to playfulness… (Philipp Schmickl, The Attic / Bucharest, Romania, 01/2016)

It is a particular music, sometimes disturbing but alive, throbbing, a beauty almost animalistic. (Battiti, Rai Radio 3, 12/2015)