La Muerte de Empédocles - acantilado
…tries to decipher certain mysteries that did not glimpse at their moment.
The Books
After recording Escritorio and soon to start the production of embas‘ Suburbia, I began to work with 4 books published by biblioteca del acantilado
Resting - Attila Bartis
Fateless - Imre Kertész
Death of Empedocles - Frederich Hölderlin
Inferno - August Strindberg
The result was a 8 theme EP (each theme is presented mastered and remastered) were I placed my interpretation of each tale. The title: acantilado
Empédocles is surrounded by his disciples, is being loved and rejected. We can hear him advanced to his time, thoughtful on reflection… always trying to generate it. We can follow him climbing Mount Etna, between ideas and nature, until his final speech and departure.
He dies alone and immortalizes himself in solitude.
The Phrase
“¡Olvido!…¡Oh, como una vela venturosa
me desprendo de la costa, y la ola de la vida
por sí sola me deja!”
Friedrich Hölderlin.
As a part of the composition exercise, on each theme of acantilado I putted a phrase that obstinately joins the rest. Here, it can be easily identified. It represents the people assimilation, over adaptation, to Empedocles’ ideas.
In the theme our main character is never understood.
