voices #52
◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
here we got:
thëm
answering some questions. We have already observed his experimental / ambient / post-rock work here.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “El Dolor La Norma” that we prefer is “S’Agabbadòra (Mazzolu)”. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► thëm: The concept of ‘El Dolor La Norma’ arose after suffering from a serious and rare illness, which fortunately is now in the past. It left me with several bad and somewhat traumatic experiences on a personal level. After a while, they were still very present in my daily life, dark and sad memories. I thought it might be therapeutic/healing to use these feelings to do something beautiful and enriching for myself. And then I expanded the concept of the album to explain stories that, at first glance, seem cruel but turn out to be healing or kind. While searching for information about this concept in other cultures, I came across S’Agabbadòra, a woman who was responsible for providing a quick death to terminally ill patients so that they would not suffer. I thought she was a clear example of the concept of the album, as she may seem like a macabre, cruel character, but she was actually a person who was called upon by the relatives of the terminally ill to end their suffering. Meanwhile, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a figure associated with kindness, had her “hospitals of suffering”/’houses of death’, where, through the privacy of medicine and the pain suffered by the sick until their agonising death, she promised them paradise (the more you suffer, the greater the reward). Agabbadòra bad and Mother Teresa good… isn’t that curious?
The song attempts to set to music the scene of how I imagine it would be before, during and after S’Agabbadòra’s work with a patient.
[2. CREATION]
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