This mixtape is the second part of a small series of mixtapes that came up as a physical response to the worldwide situation related to COVID-19 pandemic. Artistic-wise the main reference point being Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”.
While living this strange period of “waiting” isolation, two questions kept coming up: “when all these will end” and “how are we going to begin again”. An immediate urge to dig once more Samuel Beckett’s body of work started surfacing and Endgame seemed like a perfect match. By the first phrase of Clov: “Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished”, it was clear that I had just found my canvas. Not long after that intriguing encounter, I caught myself following Beckett’s thread to the center of Endgame’s maze.
At the same time, I was recording my everyday life in my house, being the kitchen, the bedroom or even the balcony and spending most of my time in the home studio. A lot of hours working with several synthesis tools, my eurorack synthesizer as well as various creative plugins in the digital workstation. And… this is how this mixtape came into life.
Obviously, living in a convenient apartment in Greek province during springtime with my partner is not so grey and gloomy or miserable as of let’s say Endgame’s world. This is quite apparent in the mixtape too. But still… the threatening atmosphere, the malicious effects in our reality in some way or another are “operating” either in our conscious layers (how our everyday life has changed) or in the underflow, in the mazes of our subconscious.
To sum up, I have never hide my personal fascination for mazes and labyrinths as my favorite symbols of life and cosmos, nor for theater and drama. This mixtape is not an exception. For this one I chose the theater reference to be represented throughout the track titles. All of them are quotes from Beckett’s play being phrases or even dialogue. Always in a playful manner even if they clearly represent a quite claustrophobic situation. Even if they seem so relevant to our current lives.
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Tracklist
1. Rendeece – If I could kill him I'd die happy.
2. Rendeece – And the horizon? Nothing on the horizon? –What in God's name could there be on the horizon? –The waves, how are the waves? –The waves? Lead. –And the sun? –Zero. –But it should be sinking. Look again. –Damn the sun. –Is is night already then? –No. –Then what is it? –Gray. –Gray! GRRAY! –Gray! Did I hear you say gray –Light black. From pole to pole. [04:44]
3. Rendeece – Last night I saw inside my breast. There was a big sore. –Pah! You saw your heart. –No, it was living. [10:06]
4. Rendeece – What's happening? –Something is taking its course. –We're not beginning to... to... mean something? –Mean something! You and I, mean something! Ah that's a good one! [15:35]
5. Rendeece – But humanity might start from there all over again! [21:40]
6. Rendeece – Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn't fill it, and there you'll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. Yes, one day you'll know what it is, you'll be like me, except that you won't have anyone with you, because you won't have had pity on anyone and because there won't be anyone left to have pity on you. [25:14]
7. Rendeece – So you all want me to leave you. –Naturally. –Then I'll leave you. –You can't leave us. –Then I won't leave you. –Why don't you finish us? I'll tell you the combination of the cupboard if you promise to finish me. –I couldn't finish you. –Then you won't finish me. [33:48]
Notes
Track no2, sample: Lucian Ban – Transylvanian Folk Songs: The Bela Bartok Field Recordings (Track: “The Return”)
Conceived by & produced by Rendeece.
Made for my residency @ web radio, Random Access Radio.
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