Sur l’onde calme et noire où dorment les étoiles La blanche Ophélia flotte comme un grand lys, Flotte très lentement, couchée en ses longs voiles… – On entend dans les bois lointains des hallalis. Voici plus de mille ans que la triste Ophélie Passe, fantôme blanc, sur le long fleuve noir Voici plus de mille ans que sa douce folie Murmure sa romance à la brise du soir Le vent baise ses seins et déploie en corolle Ses grands voiles bercés mollement par les eaux ; Les saules frissonnants pleurent sur son épaule, Sur son grand front rêveur s’inclinent les roseaux. Les nénuphars froissés soupirent autour d’elle ; Elle éveille parfois, dans un aune qui dort, Quelque nid, d’où s’échappe un petit frisson d’aile : – Un chant mystérieux tombe des astres d’or
LP (180 Gram) Original Artwork by Peter Kastner Numbered edition of 25 ex. d’or082 Date of Publication: October 5, 2024, for pre sales contact Astres d’Or Price: 120 euro
RLW / PAAK …Von der Arbeit II…
Ralf Wehowsky and Peter Kastner, aka RLW and PAAK, have been established names in electroacoustic music for many years. RLW began his musical career with the group P.D. (later renamed P16.D4) in the early eighties and has been organising collaborative works and releasing solo recordings under own name since the early nineties. PAAK is a visual / sound / performance artist from Hamburg. He also runs the record label permaREV Platten and organises Rauschmelder events from time to time.
…Von der Arbeit II… is their fourth studio collaboration (after Mahlzeit – CD 2008, Klingelbeutel – LP 2012, and …Zur Arbeit I… – LP 2016). Eight years after …Zur Arbeit I… (To Work I…) , it’s time to update: …Von der Arbeit II… (Back From Work II…) , together with the previous collaborations, forms a series of sonic reflections on the state of economy and society, power and religion, technological progress and oppression, capitalism and resistance. (To be continued …). The pieces are based on, among other things, found sounds and the output of a primitive AI, but ultimately follow the old (utopian) idea of brain-, hand- and heart-controlled artworks.
RLW mixPAAK mix
Artwork description: Cut and pasted paper, ink, 0n paper. Artwork by Peter Kastner. Each copy is handmade and different from each other, despite using the same motifs.
