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Rating: Sunk into the couch, dim light and cheap brandy; even electronic music has its “Old Testament”, its parables. Cosmology of the human being in four movements; primordial broth; cello embers lash icy synthesizers, funeral organ chords warm under the light of an eternal vibraphone. Electronic magma and existential minimalism. I too have my “Old Testament”; sunk into the couch I rediscover it, sunk into the couch I let myself go. What did Baudelaire say?: “…deep couches like tombs…”.
First Movement.
The Universe is dark, at least as much as I am. Creeping and cunning shadows that we cannot shake off; only lights: those of the past, those we only remember, those we do not live, those of our lost illusions.
Second Movement.
The Universe is indifferent, at least as much as I am. Nothing worth more than a blink of an eye, a rotation on its own axis. Everything inexorably follows its course; after all, there is nothing to worry about: one day, perhaps, we will be free.
Third Movement.
Yet the Universe is also restless, at least as much as I am. The spasmodic beating of our hearts, the cold sweats that catch us off guard. Sudden eruptions of volcanoes we believed extinct remind us that we are alive; that our smallness is redeemed by our emotions.
Fourth Movement.
And yet the Universe still hopes, at least as much as I do. What exactly we hope for is hard to say; yet in privileged moments, in unexpected astral alignments, everything seems still possible, everything…
…Even believing in the Fourth Movement.
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