Wesen by Giovanni Di Domenico & ZUGZWANG

Final chapter on the trilogy about Funk music and German existentialist philosophy after "The Ear Cannot Be Filled With Hearing" (2017, Silent Water) and "Reflection Is Circular" (2019, Silent Water)

Imagined (?) dreams of being chased, false awakenings, etc. analyzed through a lens of the gestaltpsychologic understanding. Perceptions containing qualities that do not result from the arrangement of simple sensory qualities. An example of Gestalt-qualität, as Christian von Ehrenfels writes, is a melody that may consist of individual tones, but is much more than just the sum of these tones. Individual tones could combine to form completely different melodies, but the melody remains the same even if it is shifted to a different key and therefore contains different individual tones...the Gestalt laws are, however, nearly universally applicable.

song titles and text: Tomas Földes

Tracklist

1.	Du musst dir eine Frage stellen	5:54

2.	Fühl ich mich glücklich?	5:02

3.	Na ja, Glück ist nichts anderes als das Umfangensein…	7:21

4.	Man hat es nicht, sondern ist darin.	9:59

5.	Man kann nur fragen, habe ich mich glücklich gefühlt?	9:17

6.	A stranger approached you on the street	7:14

7.	You ran but he followed	7:13

8.	He woke up and you disappeared	6:31

9.	Gefüge und Tektonik	5:02

10.	Ganzbeschaffenheit	9:01

11.	Wesen	8:01

Credits

released October 7, 2022

all music, production & engineering by Giovanni Di Domenico

Recorded in The Nest Cellar, Brussels, and so many other places, 2019-2021

with the invaluable help of:

- Giotis Damianidis: electric guitar on A1, A3, B2, C2, C3, D1, D2
- Laurens Smet: electric guitar & bass, synths, acoustic guitar, banjo
on A3, B1, C3, D1
- Pak Yan Lau: synths on A1, D2, D3
- Riccardo Marogna: clarinet, tenor sax, electronics on B2, C2, D3
- Miquel Casaponsa: electric guitar, electronics on A1, A2, C1
- Kostas Benís: electric saz, voice on B1, C2, D2
- Grégoire Tirtiaux: baritone sax on A2, C1

mastered by Matt Bordin at Outsideinside studio, Volpago Del Montello, 2021

art-work & layout by Miquel Casaponsa

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