Magnetfisch
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9/5/2007 1:11:51 AM
Anger and a landscape
On our way to a festival in Gempen last Saturday, the landscape changed all of a sudden when we left the grey but practical monotony of the motorway for lush green hills. I must admit that while it was certainly not easy for our bassist Rolf to drive the bus (or should I say “seafood carrier”) through the narrow curves and villages, I was getting increasingly enthusiastic about the surroundings. Had it not been for the open air concert, I would have spent my evening as a ravished tourist in my own country. But we had a mission to accomplish onstage. Just as Pachelbel’s “Kanon in D” used to accompany my family on countryside car rides, the beautiful landscape I saw now assisted the synthesizer string chorus. As we played “Brain Departure”, I felt quite immerged into this ambience and so were my fellow musicians and our audience. Near the end of the concert, this culminated when the E-drums made a break, leaving room for rapid electronic bass and hushed synth organ… whereon Seline slowly began to sing: “you were on the run, you were almost gone” and the guitars progressively started their part… It was just like gliding.
As I have mentioned in several of our previous blog posts, both songs have a particular emotional meaning to me, as I lost my father in June. Although I am by far not the only one to go through hard times, I cannot deny that this loss fills me with sadness and even with anger at times. Anger at dwindling landscapes for instance. In Switzerland, a square meter is covered in concrete each second. And to see soothing and inspiring landscapes being inexorably replaced by anonymous grey zones just makes me angry: No wonder my father and I went to a successful protest rally some time ago in order to save farmland. As Buddhists say, and although difficult to handle, anger can be a constructive force, too…
Timo / Magnetfisch
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