Mental Minority - Mariupol
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This may not be my most polished work, it was done within two days in a very strange mood. I started doing "something with music" to take my mind off the things happening - and ended up composing while at the same time having a news-channel permanently showing all that madness on a little screen on my desk. I really wanted to turn it off, most of the pictures and texts were repeated constantly, there was kinda no point in having the device active all the time - but I just couldn´t.
Strangely enough even in this "setting" creating music did for me what it has been doing for 25 years now: When things come too close, when I reach that point where I think "Man, if you don´t stop thinking now, if you don´t stop walking on the edge of this abyss right now, everything may fall apart to a point of no return", then transforming this lurking nothingness into something has so often saved me in a way.
Therefore a lot of my tracks are like time-capsules for me - when I listen, I can exactly re-feel what was wrong (most of the time something was wrong) or what I was thinking about back then.
More and more I realized that this piece of music perhaps would be connected even closer to the very moment it was created than usually. I really hope that, given time, I will look at this one and say "These were some dark weeks in history and I remember them exactly when listening, but at least in the end it didn´t turn out as terrible as it could have".
Original pictures (in order of appearance) by:
OpenCliparts_vectors @ pixabay
Gerd Altmann @ pixabay