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KASSEL JAEGER / STEPHAN MATHIEU - Zauberberg

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Shelter Press SP068 Release Year: 2016 Note: inspired by THOMAS MANNs "Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain), KASSEL JAEGER organized this project to evoke the aura and atmosphere of the remoted place in the Swiss mountains described in the novel => capturing psychogeographic field recordings there and using music that the main character HANS CASTORP played, a subtle and ghostly soundtrack was created at a studio using of the GRM in Paris.... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €23.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Few years ago, an idea germinated while reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. An idea not driven by the narrativity of the book, but by the traces and the aura invoked in it. That was it: an audible auratic journey trough the memories of a place lost in the heights of the swiss mountains. A century after the events depicted in the book, we went where the story took place, trying to capture the remaining sounds that could have been heard at the time, and the ghosts who might have still wandered around. Zauberberg is based on these captures, on recordings of the music played by Hans Castorp (the novel’s main character), on acoustic/electronic instrumentation and digital processing. The result is an evokation of time and duration, an exploration of what remains and what is lost, a meditation of the dissolution and persistence of the aura surrounding everything. — Kassel Jaeger, Nov. 19, 2015