![]() ![]() Perrault’s Barbe Bleue is directly inspired by a true historical figure, Baron Gilles de Rais. All of this is valid and true – at the same time, none of it is valid and true, but almost harmful, since it entirely takes the focus away from the true story.īluebeard was initially written down in 1697 by Charles Perrault, who was also the true author of many other folk tales like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Sleeping Beauty. The Freudian interpretation, most prominently carried out by Bruno Bettelheim, suggests that the forbidden room is symbolic for the unlocking of sexual desires, with the bloody key being a phallic symbol. The feminist perspective claims that it is a story about domestic violence and victimhood of women. The Christian reading emphasizes on allusions to the biblical story of man’s fall and the role of Eve / women as scapegoats for the origin of evil in Western civilization. Over the years, the interpretations of this chilling tale concentrated on gender questions and sexuality. She tries to cover up her actions and clean the the key which has dropped into the blood, but the key is magical and the blood cannot be removed, revealing her disobidience to her beastly husband. ![]() Of course she enters it nevertheless, and discovers a blood-flooded room full of female corpses hanging from hooks on the wall and ceiling. He gives his newest beautiful bride the keys to his huge castle, allowing her to explore any room, except for an underground chamber that he strictly forbids her to enter. At the core of these tales which were kept alive (but also embellished, changed, and decoded) by the oral tradition, often true events are to be found.Ī good example is Bluebeard (1812), which is the tale of a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married several times to women who have all mysteriously vanished. They also go beyond the categorization of archetypes and psychoanalytical interpretation, which too often obscures more than it reveals due to its narrow theoretical and hypothetical nature. An analogy to the Grimm Brothers is ideally suited to work out the outstanding quality of Rausch: more revelation through light, and light’s closeness to the cosmic beat.Ĭurated and disneyfied by the cultural makers of the modern world, the original Grimm’s tales bear sinister truths that go beyond cartoonized princesses, wolves, and witches. This forest here is mythically charged and sinister, but otherwise captivates through the absence of mythical and magical creatures, through its abstract realism. On the album’s artwork we see forests and trees where the sunshine gleams trough- Rausch is a testament to the horrors of the daylight which does without cheap effects like the full moon and wolf howls at night. This ecstasy has another connotation, it is an endless and relentless march through deadwood and undergrowth ornated with thorns, an hour-long voyage through these misty Teutonic forests, a record that brings together all senses by that it makes you feel the moss, hear the crack of wood under your steps, and smell the fog and rot. ![]() Voigt is taking us to the mythical German forests, but although the album is titled “Rausch“ („intoxication, ecstasy“), it is a not a mystical album celebrating the dreamlike, unconcious state and the vague darkness of vision resulting of that. It should be listened to as a single composition and full symphony, and so it was premiered in the Cologne Philharmonia in the year of its release. Cosmic music that is constantly on the edge to being a nightmare, yet it is strangely far from being otherwordly and keeps a sober and focused composure with a tireless physicality knocking at the pain threshold, which as whole is often reminiscent of Wagner. Rausch is a hypnotic mix of ambient and classic with just a hint of techno. As inspiration for the precious Grimm’s tales that exported eerie German knowledge to an universal consciousness, to this day its being revisited by artists such as Lars von Trier, who will only film in the German forests for the right impact of his unsettling and radical films (f.e. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of great sagas and the peak of romanticism. GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) ![]()
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