Galga by Baeddel
I was swathed in shadow
Summer had come to burn us alive
And nourish the soil with our ashes
That we flower over and over again
Dispossessed of the power of wrath
I know this story by heart now
And I must be a thorn in your side
I must be a thorn in your side
Bæddel is an old word for the transfeminine abject, from which the adjective ‘bad’ is possibly derived. A reclamation of the disavowed is pivotal to this project.
In pursuit of remembering a lost lineage – not as reconstruction, but the maintenance of a course into the future encrypted in the past – Galga patches together a model of Gothic indigeneity bastardized by bass music: a crooked path that weaves between the two in liminality.
The real efficiency of sound, not in a political but an eschatological sense, is deeply intertwined with the evocation of horror — not mundane fear, but the nocturnal brilliance of dread which pervades pagan customs, and forecloses the category of supernatural insofar as nature is seen continuously exceeding itself.
Tracklist
| 1. | Wyrd | 2:35 |
| 2. | OS Nibath | 3:32 |
| 3. | Smorfia | 4:06 |
| 4. | Poltergeist | 4:29 |
| 5. | I will break the door, I will wrench the locks | 4:25 |
| 6. | Marei | 5:33 |
| 7. | Malma | 3:28 |
| 8. | Fürwa Bagg | 2:30 |
| 9. | Nimue | 4:59 |
Credits
‘OS Nibath’ features electronic voice phenomena that were recorded with a short-wave receiver, vocals by marzannaDrowning.
‘Smorfia’ features loudspeaker transmissions recorded at Fontanelle cemetery in Naples, Italy.
‘I will break the door, I will wrench the locks’ features recordings of a spirit-box custom-built in Max/MSP.
‘Fürwa Bagg’ is titled after an elemental spirit channelled by Anton “Köther” Stammsen of Stammtisch Flutwelle.
’Nimue’ features a recording created while conjuring nymphs at the Teufelsseemoor Köpenick in Berlin, Germany.
Recorded by Earhiel Mendes in Berlin, Germany.
Mastered by Donatella Demuth at OZH-0 in Naples, Italy.
