donis - bez grazdanstva cas
Autarkeia
Price: 13 EUR
This long-planned LP is dedicated to a very close man of the author –
his grandfather. Based on the story of his life, it reflects the
post-war Lithuanian near border residents’ fates. Some were killed,
others exiled or remained in the occupied territory of the Soviet
system, which is an equivalent to the internal deportation or
capitulation and surrender, hypocrisy. However, it turns out that even
in such circumstances there’s possible a silent one person's resistance
against the entire system. In the dark Soviet times album’s hero dared
to defy the executive instructions of their actions on the grounds that
he was not a citizen of this country. In the events of turmoil, it can
be considered a miracle that the latter had survived, but had not been
exiled to the northern camps. He was issued an identity document “БЕЗ
ГРАЖДАНСТВА” (in Russian, “No citizenship”).
Album compositions
encode the post-war era’s symbols from child’s memory while listening to
the stories of relatives. "So called Wolf's children – children
wandering alone in East Prussia, which were protected by good people.
"Flowering Gardens" – a generous harvest greeting exiles that returned
home. "Cult servant" – a multi-layered and complicated personality and
social status. "GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN" – inscription in
grandfather's personal documents indicating the place of birth, current
Ţindaičiai town. "1977” – the symbolic year in which the album’s hero
died, and a few months later, LP’s author was born.
The record is
done using only acoustic instruments and ambient sounds of the
authentic grandfather's life places: the remaining houses, attics with
old craftsman’s tools, native whistling winds of Ţindaičiai and chirping
birds, church, yellow rusted documents and photographs, squeaky steps
in Jurbarkas’ town cemetery...
"БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА" is a
melancholic, atmospheric instrumental ambient album for the human
condition, when you become a stranger in your own homeland, imprisoned
in a trap and a hard choice: to flee or to stay.
Album's tracks listing:
A. "БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА"
B. "GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN"
Album lasts for 40 min. Lim. E. Various normal and chrome branded audio cassettes. C-46.
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