HauschkaFerndorf
2008
Ferndorf, the small town after which the album is titled, provides an interesting set of memories and perspectives for Bertelmann. The album is instrumental, but in the absence of lyrical guides, instrumental themes signpost where Bertelmann’s moods are traveling, and paint imaginative scenes of a serene and simple—if, at times, dull and a little restricting—childhood. “Freibad”, named after an outdoor swimming pool in the forest, begins dripping melancholy strings, before the advance of peppy horns establishes the warm, fuzzy nostalgia one would expect of a childhood memory in a park. Its immediate follow-up, “Barfuss durch Gras”, is more solitary, featuring only Bertelmann and the clicks, pops, and jangles of his prepared piano. Gradually, “Gras” bubbles and rises, perhaps as an expression of the frustration of being an artist with world-touring ambitions and coming from a beautiful, but small and definitively non-cosmopolitan background.
Uma obra de arte para nos aquecer. Para ouvir em soalhos de madeira tosca.
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