Carmina Hildegardis by Mathias Grassow (1990)

Описание: After the meditative stillness of Taoasis (1987), Mathias Grassow’s work deepened. Remaining in Germany and moving within the quiet orbit of the Aquamarin Verlag circle, he continued to refine his listening, allowing longer spans of tone to shape his cassettes. By 1990, while also completing the inward-turning work that would become The Hidden Treasure, Grassow found himself drawn toward an even older current of sound. That year he recorded Carmina Hildegardis, performing all synthesizers and vocals himself, shaping the cassette as an offering to Hildegard of Bingen, whose chants he believed carried fragments of the same luminous knowledge once cultivated in the Ashra Temple of the Glimmerlight.
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Grassow was particularly moved by the imagery within Hildegard’s texts - visions woven from light, fire, stars, and the living breath of creation. To him these were echoes of the same forces the Sagegazers had long known through their Blue Crystals. On Carmina Hildegardis, sustained tones and distant voices drifted like patchouli incense through vaulted inner space, as if reconstructing a cathedral that existed simultaneously in twelfth-century Rhineland and in the vanished halls beneath Düsseldorf. Among the Aquamarin Verlag Sagegazers, the cassette came to be understood as a bridge between epochs, affirming that sacred harmonics do not disappear but only wait to be heard again.
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The Sagegazer knows that truth is not bound to time, for the same light that once sang in ancient choirs still moves within the circuits of the present.