Karis: about dying, death and surviving. A meditation on contemporary music.
Is it coincidence that this episode of Karios on the 4th of May has so many references to dying death and the dead? Yes, in a way it is, because it happened by accident. But what is coincidence? Coincidences are nothing more than trying to explain what is happening. Death is part of live and therefore always present. The question is, whether and how you want to see it. Death is what ends life and what makes it precious. But is death the definitive and therefore regrettable end, or is it a moment that gives meaning in a cycle, or maybe the moment of deliverance of the unbearable? And death is definitely the moment of regret. Regretting, mainly, what people were afraid to do or be. But let this be an invitation! And yes, let’s remember our dead. They went before us, but maybe they are following us. Then it’s up to us to give direction.
playlist:
00:11 This Leo Sunrise. The gardener path. Album ‘Spoken’. Tiny Room Records TR008.
05:01 Jherek Bischoff. Cas(s)iopeia. Album ‘Cistern’. LEAF.
08:20 Richard Bolhuis/House of cosy cushions. Bleed the need. Album ‘Haunt Me Sweetly’. Outcast Cats CAT 0C01.
11:59 Richard Bolhuis/House of Cosy Cushions. Kerkje te Oostum. Album ‘Spell’. Outcast Cats CAT 0C002CD.
20:10 Mark Lohmann/Moon Moon Moon. Deathbed. Album Help! Help! Tiny Room Records TR015.
23:30 Kim Janssen. Bottle Rockets. Album ‘Cousins’. Snowstar Records.
26:09 Johan Johansson – The Candlelight Vigil. Album ‘Prisoners’. Water Tower, NTOV.
31:06 Douglas Dare. Nile. Album ‘Whelm’. Erased Tapes Records ERATP 057CD.
35:34 Richard Bolhuis/House of Cosy Cushions. The Mad Sisters. Album ‘Spell’. Outcast Cats CAT 0C002CD.
39:35 Ólafur Björn Ólafsson/Ulfur. Heaven in a wildflower. Album ‘White Mountain’. Western Vinyl.
45:34 Pauline Oliveros. A love song. Album ‘The Well And The Gentle’. hat ART 2020.
50:09 Frederick Septimus Kelly – Elegy for strings in Memoriam Rupert Brooke – St. George Quintet (Liesbeth Baelus – violin; Kaja Nowak – violin; Marie-Louise De Jong – viola; Wouter Vercruysse – violoncello; Bram Decroix – double bass). Album ‘British Legends’. Pavane ADW 7584.
57:52 Anders Holte. Full Moon Dance (fragment). Album ‘Lemurian Home Coming’. www.anders-holte.com.
