Archive 2022
(2016-2020) Mathias Grassow & John Haughm - OPALUS
3rd album between both artists. OPALUS was made during several "live"-sessions at home in germany on 12th and 13th deember of 2016.
Compiled, mixed, designed and produced by John Haughm; mastering by Gus Elg in 2020.
This album was recorded totally live, without any overdubs.
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released December 12, 2020
Cover painting by Cornelia Kern, photography of both artists by Veleda Thorsson, art direction & design by John Haughm.
(2020) : The dreamquest sessions (1998)
"The dreamquest sessions" was originally released as a CD-R in the late 90s. Ít is closely related to "The darklight quest" and especially "The nightquest sessions".
This edition has been slightly edited and features two framing chapters. It has also received a mastering touch by Anders Peterson of 'Ghost Sounds'.
I am extremely happy to finally be able to present the third, remixed and extended part as the end of this trilogy.
released December 7, 2020
Many thanks to Johan Rehn for making this release possible !
Painting of "the dream" directly to one of the artists "shaman drums" by MG somewhere in between worlds.......
(2020) Advent
Based on singing bowls and drones, Advent is a collection of pieces that were created in the last few weeks of this year's Christmas season. The pieces do not necessarily represent Advent I-IV in exact this order, but can be interpreted by anyone.......Enjoy !
On this album the artist plays :
Singing bowls - frame drum - deep voice - keys/samples/synths.
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released December 4, 2020
Thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia for cover image and layout.
(2020) Eleven virtues
"Eleven virtues" is an idea, a collection of primarily knightly virtues from the late Middle Ages, which I intuitively assigned to these pieces. I chose these virtues because I liked them best; Especially in comparison with the cardinal virtues, the Prussian virtues etc.
Of course, opinions on the "most important" and contemporary virtues diverge. Accordingly, of course, every listener has their own scope to discover this for themselves here as well.
The order of the individual pieces and their titles is not to be understood as an increase in the virtues to be acquired, but rather intuitive and arbitrary. The recordings were made "live at home" in a continuous session.
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released December 4, 2020
Many thanks as usual to my beloved wife and "Aguilar" mate Cornelia Kern for cover layout and support.
Cover photo taken by Tara Bierwisch.
(2020) Yggdrasils burning
This more classic drone-album was created from 3 home sessions that year, from which this two hour selection was made. The current critical situation of our "green lungs" and the consequences of what has not wanted to be seen for decades is the concept of this work. The titles refer to the eight largest "primeval forests" on our planet.
Title explanation:
Yggdrasil, Old Norse Yggdrasill, also: world ash, is the name of an ash tree in Norse mythology that embodies the entire cosmos as a world tree.
released October 24, 2020
Many thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia Kern for Images and support.
(2018-2020) The salt of life
Salt is a symbol of health, vitality, success and happiness. It stands for consistency and incorruptibility. In the past, salt was weighed with gold and paid as a wage, and today you recognize a person's worth by giving them salt.....
"The salt of life" here stands for the essence of what we are here for; on the one hand individually, on the other hand in a spiritual context with the universe.
At the end of the resonance there is the great and unimaginable nothing, the sound of the inconceivable emptiness, which is at the same time permeated by abundance. Not comprehensible with the mind, but felt through this music - an idea ......
Pieces 1-3 are variations from "Europa - Part II".......
released November 6, 2020
Many thanks to Cornelia Kern for images and support - as ususal.......
Life document: (2020) Live at Gut Saunstorf 1st of august 2020
This is the original recording of the concert at Gut Saunstorf near Wismar on August 1st, 2020. The recording was not post-processed, but rather adopted due to the preservation of the highest possible authenticity with all background noises and errors in order to faithfully reproduce the great spirit of this event.
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Tracks 1-7 were recorded directly in the audience with a TASCAM live recorder.
Tracks 8 & 9 are the same concert in only two parts - but here taken from the hall mixer.
So everyone has the opportunity to choose their personal version ......
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released October 2, 2020
Thanks to the whole team and organisators of the concert, you know who you are ! Thanks for the great support to my wife Cornelia Kern.
New release: KaleidosHope
This new 80 minute album was created around the same time as "Bazaar" and can therefore be seen as a follow-up album and yet......it is different : Middle points here are also oriental instrumentation, whereby the hypnotic 5th piece represents the core of the mysticism of the Arab worlds and bridges this with the west and the typical "drone" music.
"Life is a kaleidoscope and we design its blaze of colors..."
released August 7, 2020
Thanks to CORNELIA KERN for images, titles and cover-concept.
NOTE : Parts V & VI were played live during my forthcoming live album from "Gut Saunstorf" nearby Wismar in germany on 1st of august 2020.
I want to dedicate this album In memory of the "Hibakusha" - and all the victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945.
[/url]AGUILAR, the Mathias Grassow archive
Aguilar is the Mathias Grassow archive Bandcamp artist site that my wife Cornelia runs and manages. There - and only there - you can get the exclusive "Mathias Grassow" archive series, starting in 1980 ....
The individual parts have a comfortable CD length, are mixed and mastered. According to the time, everything is a bow to the possibilities that existed at the time and is accordingly authentic. You can be happy to collect these series for an acceptable price.
Enjoy.
https://aguilar1.bandcamp.com
From the archives: Drone-Day - Mathias Grassow live in Wiesbaden 26th of may 2018
Live performance of the artist during the "Drone-Day" in Wiesbaden 26th of may 2018.
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released July 3, 2020
Recorded live at the Drone Day Event at Luisenforum, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2018-05-26
Mastered by HaDi Schmidt.
Aural clean-up by Michael Brückner.
Thanks to both of you guys !
Thanks too to Cornelia Kern for cover image, participation and support.
