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the why album

by AKASHIC RECORDS

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jeff gburek /aenigmaplasme - Aenigmaplasme mirror from afar 03:35
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Aenigmaplasme A--wwayGruv--Attax 02:40
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Aenigmaplasme Lao Kor 02:47
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Aenigmaplasme Kuta Kebang 02:16
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Aenigmaplasme Silly Thing 00:15
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Aenigmaplasme Disco Ducks 01:41
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Aenigmaplasme Awwway Dub version 1 01:19
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Aenigmaplasme Punjabit 03:14
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Aenigmaplasme Masscalzone 01:59
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Aenigmaplasme The Laughing Song (Artaud) 04:24
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Aenigmaplasme If I had an Afro 07:31
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Aenigmaplasme Etnogramattikon 03:25
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Aenigmaplasme Tal Talk 03:46
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Aynigumma Rollover Eindhoven 05:54
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Aenigramma Ray Extensore 18:36
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Aenigmo King Allamarvidja in a Can 02:01
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Enigmann Neuetnogrammaticker non-Hop 05:52
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Aenigmosis Masscalzone Unexplainable Shard 00:25
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Aenigmo Lais BB high freak mix (free) 03:13
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Aenigma DybuuK xtndd mix 05:50
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L'enigmot Bryn Jones (not a remix) 02:32
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Enigmo Kalidoscopohilia 10:17
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Aenigmaplasme aWWay Original 02:06
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Aenigmaplasme Auschnittenbildernmechanik (sic) 01:14
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Aenigmaplasme Mascalzone live mix (edit) 02:49
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Awnygwynas Curvature of the Nuclear Driveway 06:12
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about

so, why did I make "the why album"? Indeed..., well, the answer to all whys generally leading to a series of "becauses" one can infer or refer to as so many chains rattling in the cartesian wind. but, i never set out to make and album at all and the tracks were created individually out of some thought-bound necessity of the then when I made it. imagine you find yourself in berlin suddenly and ((something terrible happens which you'd rather now forget about)) and the scene has three types: the pretentious, the extremely pretentious and the extremely pretentious and malicious and it's all going nowhere: you are starved for inspiration and stimulus, you are heading for dark times, money is running out, you are alone in berlin, you are alone in berlin in the winter, you begin to live during the nights when the days are gray and faces frown in the downpours. there are the clubs. that works to distract you for a while but it begins to feel empty. at home you work on your music and you draw. you are making abstract sound art and your social problems leave you isolated and hungry. the miracle moment finally arrives: someone asks you at Karmanoia Theater to do a creative DJ set for the after-party of some performances and they, being theater people, really like the idea of something other than a person staring into the laptop. you invite two drummers, one from heavy metal background, another with funk chops and fond of mimicking drill and bass. you build as quickly as possible some music that magically enough permits you to dance while you are making it, alone. and then you take it onto the stage with the two drummers free to add their sounds into mix you are creating. it's exciting. people are dancing. beer is free. doves float in the azure air. one thought grazes the upturned nipple.

so now, maybe you know why "the why album" now exists fwiw. the live show worked well two times. the third to happen did happen but then the drummers couldn't do it. one had school to think about. another didn't feel like he was getting paid enough. I could not guarantee any more money and I so did the set alone. it didn't quite have the same effect as with the drummers. but then the Karmanoia crew and theater decided to deconstruct itself and rebuild as the prototype labyrinth. I was on some kind of roll with these sounds anyway, just keep making more pieces (in between working on the abstract sound art, such as Virtuous Circles that you can find here on my bandcamp site and Red Rose for the Sinking Ship which you will be able to find here soon). I would post tracks on myspace and see the counter of plays go up and dreams of playing other gigs. Life seemed good and filled with both desperation and potential. But I grew sick of programing and buggy programs . I started to play the guitar again, mastering the finger-picking technique and then I moved first to Belgium, then to Poland. There is a new girl in my life became my wife... and it's like that... a few years later I came to find files and played them loudly and had nice memories. Perhaps there is something of you in there too.
Jeff Gburek
April, 2012
Poznań, Poland

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released April 12, 2012

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Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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