V.A. - MUSIK VOM NEBENGLEIS (LP)

Vox Populi!, Margot, Läuten der Seele, Pareido Wolv, Christoph Heemann, Baldruin, Limpe Fuchs, Skeldos, Cardevore, Kirschstein, Jonnine, Niedowierzanie,Brannten Schnüre, NAVE ""Nebengleis" is one of those strange and rare German words that seem to be born both out of the dust of a bureaucratic, functional grammar and a wild yearning to escape the tight fabric of this material world. "Nebengleis" translates as "side-track", the track on which abandoned and unused waggons are being left upon. Waiting to be pulled out into the blue of distance again or slowly corroding, fragmentising within the uncoiling threads of time. For a while, for ever. Unnoticed, unhinged. Not seen by the tired eyes of the busy day-to-day traveller that hops on his train, that train, always running from the main-track. Inspired by the almost cosmogonal qualities of obscure and cult compilations like "Terra Serpentes" or "Music The World Does Not See" and guided by an infallible artistic instinct, Christian Schoppik (Brannten Schnüre / Läuten der Seele) has curated a record that flourishes with an unconditional love for things that are otherwise unseen, tales that are untold, small fabulous creatures that are stuck in between this world and the pantheon of better-canonised mythologies. There rests a funny haziness between the semantics of the words to curate, to care and to cure. Cure what?, you will ask. An unearthly frightfulness to be at wrong pace with the rest of the world. And then take this fright and turn it into a celebration, a paean to all the crooked, hidden ways of being creative, of being otherwise alive." (Margot Benetti)