geisternatur music mix: feb. '20 - time shining into toxic deep waters.

music for when every day is the same and sadness and disorder rule most of it, making you want to sleep forever, maybe daydreaming a moon age or a house filled with sunshine. but also for when good dreams don't come to you, and your head keeps spinning, spinning into a toxic downward spiral of negativity.

playlist:

john grant . touch and go
balbina . der schlafvertrag
her tree . deep water ( only a link to the official website of this new band, sorry folks, but at least you can listen to three other songs there, and let me tell you, they are all beautiful ❤ ).
christine and the queens . people, i've been sad
years & years . shine
jack garratt . time
MIYAVI, NVDES, seann bowe . i'm so
david bowie . moonage daydream
joy division . disorder
baba ali . house
do nothing . lebron james
system of a down . toxicity
downy . kakushaku celluloid ( 赫灼セルロイド ) ( another band where you can rarely find music online - spotify excluded ;) - so here's their soundcloud with two other songs on there - and their website if you're interested in reading up on them )
dir en grey . keigaku no yoku ( 谿壑の欲 )

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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