It's pretty awesome to see my lyrics posted all over the interwebs. Gotta love the attention. But what i just noticed, if anyone ever tried some translation tool on the lyrics to "Geistige Umnachtung", they might wonder what the word "Entferung" means. And though it sounds vaguely similar to the word "Entjungferung", it's actually just a misspelling of the word "Entfernung". Wonder how that typo came together.
About "Reconciliation", i was forced to take a break from recording as my recording device broke. Took those people over 1 month to get it repaired. But at least they did it for free. Warranty and shit. So i'm back at working on it. As far as my "condition" allows me to. Don't mean to repeat myself, but i'm really fucking depressed. Like, seriously. Shit, dude. Sucks, man.
In the US, they use the term "double depression" for this stuff, dysthymia plus episodic recurrent disorder. They should make a wrestling move and call it that. Or create an extremely evil villain duo for some superhero comic. "Dayum, look! It's double depression! NOW we're really fucked, dude."
Uploaded 2 songs from my old Split CD with Odium Immortalis on bandcamp. Gave them a bit of a new mixdown. Musikalisches Zusammenspiel. Sounds like some fucking german Schlagermusic.
And thanks to that one dude who actually paid for the album, that's awesome.
I put my old stuff on bandcamp. This releases me from the necessity of hosting the album on my own server, and comes with several certain advantages concerning online distribution. Bandcamp also enables me to let you set an optional price for purchasing my music. This means, you can still download all my shit for free (click "Buy" and put a "0" in the price field), and i encourage you to do so if you're a poor wanker like me, or if you think my music is shit but still want to download it for whatever reason. But if you think i deserve to be paid for my music, i'd be really grateful for every penny you like to spare (cents are fine too).
"Reconciliation" will be distributed in an identical fashion, under a creative commons license.
I decided to open a youtube account for Basarab stuff, including this thing here:
Recently found out that a bunch of people took the time and effort to upload some of my stuff to youtube and other streaming sites. Felt somewhat flattered that some people still care enough about my stuff to do something like that.
Well, just a little update. I'm having a hard time writing the lyrics, just as i have a hard time with everything else. Progress is slow, and it's always far too easy to dismiss everything i worked on and start new from scratch, cause it just doesn't feel good enough.
Since Basarab has always been the umbrella term for all kinds of music i created as an outlet for my depressive disorder, there was always this subtle therapeutic aspect connected to it. And as some of you may know, dealing with the brutal truths of the depths of one's own emotional state can be fucking hard, especially during depressive episodes. It takes a lot of strength and courage to carry through with that process of confrontation. And that's probably one of the several reasons why i'm having such a hard time with finishing this goddamn asshole of a record, i once thought to be appropriately named "Reconciliation".
But that probably also explains why i take this stuff so seriously, as the music itself does have some connection to my innermost being at some level. Even if it makes me laugh at myself sometimes, cause the stuff i released so far is far from matching my own expectations of what decently written and produced music should sound like. But well, i can't change it anyway.
So yeah, i'm still working on it, and i will release this piece of garbage some day in some form of free license material.
Until then, you can still download my old demo from 2003.
And you can still contact me if there's anything you want from me.
info[at]basarab[dot]de
Take care and such.