Aber mich macht’s traurig, by Kai Althoff

Aber mich macht’s traurig

by Kai Althoff

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1.	Telgor, - Lied entgegen der Reue 04:00	buy track
2.	Forerunner (Thema) 03:17	buy track
3.	z.B. der Kampf mit dem Engel 05:45	buy track
4.	Jungbauern 04:03	buy track
5.	Brachet 04:30	buy track
6.	Frei, ohne Idol, - verschränkt 05:03	buy track
7.	Die Sonne verschlingt die Welt in Ruhe 03:43	buy track
8.	Leck gescheit, du Dieb (in Krankheit) 03:52	buy track
9.	Weihe und Schau 04:31	buy track
10.	Mit Dir wohin! 03:45	buy track
11.	Janusz 05:01	buy track
12.	Man könnte ja Teil 1 06:38	buy track
13.	Man könnte ja Teil 2 02:19	buy track
14.	Aber mich macht’s traurig 07:41	buy track
15.	Erhöhung aller Kinder 06:35	buy track
16.	Seminar 03:05	buy track
17.	Weil sie allein gehen kann 04:09	buy track

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„Aber mich macht’s traurig“ (But it makes me sad) is Kai Althoffs first regular release after several records as Fanal and before with his band Workshop. The music for the double album was recorded by Kai Althoff between 2016 and 2019 with numerous instruments - including synthesizers, flutes, acoustic and electric guitar and bass, various drums and percussive instruments (rattles, bells, cymbals, ratchet....), Biwa and his voice.

"But it makes ME sad

Nobody had to bear this music, neither was it thought out by anyone, played by none, nor dedicated to someone.

Also, one no longer is, and therefore this utterance generates itself and is music to nobody’s ears.

Organizing the entombed power structures, paving alongside the most beautiful nettle-seamed trickle of remembered civilization on one’s own authority, which eventually gives in to its assumption; its mouth pasted (over) with the dried-up vomit of its intentions, never to open again.

It carries this desparate melancholy, always ready to ridicule all of its (own) forms, to get to the bottom of all matter. Poking in the flesh of doggedly pursued gnosis with fingers, with weary despisement, deflating to crinkly tissue after life’s bloating :Oh, seriously! How could I be sad, the way they carry themselves and sing as they do that?

Alas, those whose fingers these are, just take those flutes and instruments! —- in liberation without the Idol, to no longer play something."

A.M.

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released October 2, 2020

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