Only recently I mentioned to an acquaintance of mine, how very important it has been for me to have the finished album all to myself for the last few months. Admittedly, this is no news, but this time I needed it even more I usual do.
When he asked me what the album sounds like, I couldn't give him an answer though. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk about it ... I just ... didn't know what to say. This may seem rather odd, if not downright stupid, coming from the person who created it ... but, the thing is ... I was completely lacking distance ... and even now, when I think of MITTERNACHT, all the ... well, memories ... are crashing down on me in one giant wave.
My initial reaction was to describe it as quiet ... but then I thought of the occasional eruption here and there, and suddenly I wasn't so sure anymore. I also tend to see the music like pictures in my head, rather than just hear it, which doesn't make it easier to describe it in three words or less.
In an attempt to help, he then asked, if it sounded anything like the previous album POETICA, but even that I couldn't answer for certain. I had never compared the two. But now that I have listened to both albums in a row (several times actually), I can at least say that they work very well together ... - which is good. After all, they are related.
The peculiar thing about MITTERNACHT is that ... unlike all the albums before ... it wasn't done in one ... umm, "block". As in the mixing didn't follow right after the recording. In fact, now that I think about it, there wasn't even enough time to complete the vocals in one go, which did worry me immensely.
You have to keep in mind that recording an album is a magic(k)al process (well, at least it is in my case).
The most intensive moment (for lack of a better word) is the time when the vocals are being recorded, and, more or less immediately after that, the song is being mixed. The concentration of energies that have been called/invoked during the conception of the album is at its highest then ... which is why it is so important to channel them right there ... and, by mixing the song, direct them to where you want/need the energies to go. Once the entire album is finished, you can exhale ... sigh ... and release the energies. In the course of the following year(s) they work their magic ... which means that things happen to you ... all in accordance with the vibration, subject, intention and/or theme of the album.
This is how it has always been. This is what I am used to, as this is how I work.
Hardcover book
36 pages, high grade art print on high quality art paper
Black front and rear endpapers
Cover art by Natalie Shau
Illustrations by Anastasiya Chyringa
Hand-numbered by Anna-Varney Cantodea
Personally signed by Anna-Varney Cantodea
Strictly limited to 1.999 copies
