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Zu Dir:: tags
alternative experimental
ambient
atmospheric
aural experience
cinema
dark
drone
emo
experimental
gloomy
indie
magnificent desolation
minimal
neo-folk
otherwordly
post-rock
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How To Deal With Destiny ( Untitled 02 ) - Thu May 03, 2012 : So will you not come home, brother... Says the warm wind... The west wind... ( ! POST-ROCK ! - looped, delayed and detuned guitars and drums, sequenced bass sounds, 1951 American radio, and Celtic chanting. SUPER headphones are highly recommended! )
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines - Fri Aug 24, 2012 : Tonight I can write the saddest lines... ( From the deep and dark heartlands of post-rock - the deserted Amsterdam harbors by night ( fieldrecording ), looped and detuned piano, Neruda's poetry, and classical sampling. SUPER headphones recomended! )
How To Deal With Destiny ( Untitled 03 ) - Wed Nov 14, 2012 : !! POST-ROCK !! The sound of the wind and rain as recorded in the deserted harbors of Amsterdam, processed drums, tremelo/detuned keyboard, Katrina Porteous' poetry, and the American folksong Poor Wayfaring Stranger. SUPER headphones recommended!
How To Deal With Destiny ( Untitled 04 ) Part 1 & 2 - Wed Apr 10, 2013 : !! From the heartlands of POST-ROCK !! Processed and delayed drums ( part 1 & 2 ), looped and detuned synth, sequenced deep bass sounds, spoken word, Celtic chanting - and more. SUPER headphones recommended!
Gunnthrain is the main project of Amsterdam based underground- and soundartist Zu Dir. All through the misty haze of long gone years - still going strong - he has been building his current catalogue slowly and seemingly almost reluctant. From deliberate lofi (radio)noisy interludes to hifi stereospread infinite soundscapes he refers to his own work as Magnificent Desolation. He prefers to ride alone, living a self-chosen life ( in his own words ) "in shadows and beyond". Back in March 2007 Gunnthrain's Eternal Life was awarded Best Song Miscellaneous 2006 at iacmusic.com ( The Independent Artists Company ). Due to server-problems which couldn't handle his 10 to 12 minutes pieces anymore, he had to leave there. This was a severe throwback from which only recently he has recovered.
Gunnthrain's influences range from Joy Division to Biosphere, from Velvet Underground to Cocteau Twins, from Nick Cave to Brian Eno, from Underworld to Mathias Grassow, from Erik Satie to Thomas Köner, from Harold Budd to Pink Floyd, and all over again.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas ( 1914 - 1953 )
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, a poem composed in 1951, is considered to be among the finest works by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). Written for his dying father, it is one of Thomas' most quoted works. The poem urges his father to fight against death - to " burn and rave at close of day " - rather than surrendering. The poet himself certainly burned with zest for life. Unfortunately, he indulged in it recklessly, drinking heavily, and dying soon after the poem was published.
As such Do Not Go gentle Into That Good Night lies at the heart of Gunnthrain's Magnificent Desolation : on the one hand Life's ( possible ) Grandeur with its seemingly endless temptations, possibilities and ( again possible ) disappointments, while on the other hand its inevitable decay and ( for some total ) horror.
On the one hand the " raging against the dying of the light ", while on the other hand the awareness of " this is the end, my beautiful friend " - a synthesis of Darkness and Light, a synthesis of ( more cosmic ) Night and Day.
"" Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation. "" - Jean Arp.
Seelenruhe - Coming down from an atmosphere drenched in wind, rain and solitude.
Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors - From the heartlands of post-rock : recycling the Late 40's, 50's and Early 60's.
The Johannes Breeuwsma Museum - A few acoustic pictures taken from a troubled life, and more.
Anything else...?
And then I found The Streaming Audio Recorder... And all my problems washed away into the great North Sea... If you have recording problems like me it will solve them all... Internet radio, the sounds of freesound.org, anything on your system - it records without any loss in quality. Please feel free to try!