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Solastalgia I

by Vlk

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes with an exlusive 12 page-booklet including an unpublished short story and exclusive artwork. Each lyrics page individually painted and designed by Sara Zaddach

    Includes unlimited streaming of Solastalgia I via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €8 EUR or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Vinyl comes with exvlusively designed back page and unpublished short story.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Solastalgia I via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      €15 EUR

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    By choose to pay more than 7 EUR, you can get the digital booklet with the lyrics and a short story, all designed as exclusive artwork by Sara Zaddach.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR  or more

     

  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    t-shirt with the logo of vlk, designed by Sara.
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      €12 EUR or more 

     

1.
Collapsology 07:02
Blood Pain Wounded creatures Fire Flood Annihilation Hunger Frostbite Dying of thirst Face Fear Agony Gale Drought Drowning Plague Blaze Mass migration The Blame Is Ours Whining Pleading Vegetating Wastelands Withering lands Bodies bent in pain Doomed – Damned The Blame Is Ours Tainted air Epidemic alerts Co-Extinction Collapse of civilization
2.
Indigenuity 10:34
Hundreds of feet make the earth tremble In the darkest hour Their bodies become one with her Forming a whole of uniqueness They dance words that the tongue cannot shape Tell stories much older than themselves Following earth’s rhythm The magic of beat, vividness The smoke of the sacred grasses reveals Wisdom of past ages The flames unveil ultimate truth Of ever-present life The savants teach us to discern Earth shares memories Plants whisper wisdom The fire reveals truth Together we listen, never disrupt We strive to comprehend Because we are the youngest of all Because we have the most to learn Now I sit here again in this sacred place Yet everything has fallen silent The bodies are limp, sitting in silence, starring at the floor The plants are mute, the flames have died out The land is withered and burned The ashes no longer share their wisdom
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Burning ravens, shattered deer Bleeding eagles, crushing fear Defiled forests, grinded shields All, a unique guilt Eroded wastelands, long gone life Endless destruction, by our hands We have failed all measures Chances to safe life The blame is ours The blame is ours
5.
Extinction 07:42
Streams of tears flood our paths Anger and despair burst all hope Bleeding wounds corrode the soil While illusions spread like a virus Mind outwitted itself, robbed itself of raison d'être Self-hatred spread when repression had no future We observed the disappearance of all being only carelessly One day though, some were able to hear an unusual sound The sound began to disturb and disturb Drove people into madness and despair Origin of the sound was the disappearance of all life last testimony of destruction and injustice The shrill and aching sound, sound of extinction, seemed never to end So now we see how our deeds destroyed all Now we feel the pain we caused The last resort is to take life from ourselves And thus become part of something bigger for the last time – the last great lament of all life
6.
Loca Inferna 01:14
Depletion and collapse of all The grief, anger, anguish The stitches and torment, shame The blame is ours, the blame is ours

about

"Solastalgia I" is a concept album and the first part of a trilogy. Solastalgia is a made-up word, formed from Latin (solacium – consolation) and ancient Greek (algos – pain), which was first used by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in the 2000s.

Solastalgia refers to the pain and grief of losing our environment: emotions driving to despair, which we bring upon ourselves through our greed and hubris. As a result, the climate and biodiversity crises are intensifying the destruction of the environment and nature.

The album is an artistic reflection and processing of the loss of home, the wealth and diversity of nature, and the livelihoods of all life, which ultimately lead to destruction, agonizing death, and extinction. A dystopian outlook and a warning for the present at the same time.

The trilogy is accompanied by short stories by Wolf-Georg Zaddach as well as photos and paintings by the artist Sara Zaddach.

credits

released November 3, 2023

All music was written and performed by Wolf-Georg Zaddach;
guest vocals by Stacy Taylor (Berlin) on “Extinction”

Mixing: Wolf Zaddach, Tom ‘Fountainhead’ Geldschläger, Berlin;
Mastering: Tom ‘Fountainhead’ Geldschläger, Berlin

Artwork: Sara Zaddach

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Vlk Berlin, Germany

Founded in 2021, Vlk has risen from the dark times of our present.
"Vlk" (pronounced "wilk"), Czech for "wolf", is a symbol, an allegory for the conflictual encounter between us and nature, which allows us to become aware of our own alienation and hubris. Vlk is about this conflict, and everything that can grow and flourish from it.
Thus vlk stands for dark, distorted, transgressive music and art
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