Abonji/Nill: Verhören

Nadj Abonji, Melinda, Nill, Balts

INT 240

Melinda Nadj Abonji: Text, Voice, Gesang, Geige, Kazoo
Balts Nill: Text, Perkussion, Ukulele
guests: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart: voice, Mich Gerber: Kontrabass

Balts Nill, many years with "Stiller Has", Melinda Nadj Abonji, writer, singer, violinist, honored with the German and Swiss book prizes for her novel "Taubenfly auf", present a piece of music that explodes genres with "interrogation".

At the invitation of the "Hexperimente" cultural initiative in Val Avers, they delved into the court minutes of the witch trial of 1652 against Trina Ruedi. The court files complement and contrast them with their own texts, interludes, improvisations and songs.

"Suddenly there is a different tone," writes Balts Nill about the creation process. "A mocking rebellion against dullness and superstition. A linguistic melody emerges from the judicial discourse. A figure emerges, a subject who speaks. This subject, which springs from our imagination, is the starting point for a new text, a counter-text to the minutes .

"Interrogation is a touching border crossing between music and language, historical interpretation and diagnosis of the times - highly topical in the examination of gender issues, fascinating in the game with sensuality, body, repression and liberation.

CD x 1

Intakt Records

12/4/14

7640120192402