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Aber hi! (feat. Vsevolod Sadovyi)

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ABER HI! is about love and the grace of language in a war year like this.

Lyrics - translated into English by Karen Leeder:

into the blue yonder, that is, with gentle swallows
in the darkness i hear the albums of bird song

that mean spring in this gloomy year.
Friederike (wasn’t she just here?)

greeted the spiralling larkspur: hi!
but i'm full of rage and am losing the thread

for the little hat of fury on my head, i'm so in diamond.
above the two of us hangs yesterday’s full moon

sweetly bruised, and in the centre of its
pupils, black as your hair, sit two sisters:

love and the polished grace of language
lighting our way through the

thicket of our hearts = dark decade
of fury and fear. but hi! i’m still dancing

i’m still here. i write without a frown: irismonth
2022, week 16 of war, world-soul turned upside down

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Original German lyrics by Ulrike Almut Sandig:

Ins lichtblaue nämlich mit zärtlichen Schwalben
im Dunkel vernehm ich die Vogeltonalben

des Frühlings in diesem finsteren Jahr.
Friederike (sie war doch gerade noch da?)

grüßte den wirbelnden Rittersporn: hi!
aber ich bin voll Zorn und verliere den Faden

für mein mützchen v. fury, bin so im diamond.
über uns beiden süsz verbeult schwankt

der Vollmond v. gestern und mitten in seinen Pupillen
schwarz wie dein Haar, sitzen zwei Schwestern:

die Liebe und die geschliffene Anmut v. Sprache
und leuchten uns einen Weg durchs

Wäldchen im Herzen = dunkles Jahrzehnt
v. fury und Furcht. aber hi! trotzdem tanz ich

trotzdem schreibe ich munter: Schwertlilienmonat
2022, Kriegswoche 16, Weltseele kopfunter

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released December 26, 2022
Lyrics & Performance by Ulrike Almut Sandig
After a poem by Friederike Mayröcker

Electronics by Grigory Semenchuk
Duda (Ukrainian bagpipe) by Vsevolod Sadovyi

Cover artwork by Sascha Conrad

Produced by Poesiekollektiv Landschaft

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Landschaft Berlin, Germany

Poetry collective Landschaft aka Sascha Conrad (Denmark), Ulrike Almut Sandig (Germany) & Grigory Semenchuk (Ukraine) mix their poems with triphop, electropunk and video art. An exhilarating fusion of music, poetry and film, Landschaft make verses float and flow. ... more

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