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STONES´ BLISS

by Stefan Hardt

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Stone´s Bliss I 33:02
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Stone´s Bliss II 13:53
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It´s not a melodion you listen to here, neither something transposed into the depth electronically nor the bass version of this instrument. All the sounds are original, just like that, with no effects but the obligatory reverberation, and they came out of a mouth harmonica, more precisely, out of a bass harmonica.

How do you react when someone talks about stones bearing children or even, like me - Stones' Bliss -, about their bliss?
That trees have a certain social life and virtually do show emotions, that word has meanwhile gotten around. But stones?
Almost 800 years ago Zen master Dogen describes the process of awakening with the help of wooded mountains: "Only seeing that the green mountains are always moving, who would know that the white stones bear children by night."
Here they are, the stones.
Big but not immovable they are. Regarding stones different laws of time are in charge. The reverberation demonstrates that they move, swing, billow, dance in huge gestes and bear children. And the storks - in the piece you can hear real Alsatian storks - bring the baby stones. As the water splatters if you cause a singing bowl - filled with it - to vibrate, also the stones »splatter«.
They just breath a little slower.

Dogen was - as writer - a great stylist and eager to express the inexpressible perfectly, perhaps that´s why stones appear quite often: "If you can set eyes on the potential outside of forms, you'll laugh as you watch a stone girl perform a dance."

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released November 16, 2018

Stefan Hardt - bass harmonica, percussion & composition

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