"I don't have any problems. I can have difficulties. It can be very hard to finish a picture or do anything. I can be ill. But it is not a problem. They are normal things, part of the great solution." (Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview in Penthouse)
https://de.scribd.com/document/167690172/Jodorowsky-The-Penthouse-Interview-pdf
https://twitter.com/Allerseelen/status/1775862524778258788

‎"Brontis: It is very hard rock. We have hit it a thousand times. We will never crack it. El Topo: Only a thousand times?" (El Topo. Screenplay by Alexandro Jodorowsky)

Allerseelen C60 / CD / C90 Frühgeschichte II. Requiem.

C60 (sold out): https://www.discogs.com/release/14770404-Allerseelen-Fr%C3%BChgeschichte-II-Requiem

CD: https://www.discogs.com/release/7491405-Allerseelen-Fr%C3%BChgeschichte-II-Requiem

C90 (sold out):
https://retortae.bandcamp.com/album/fr-hgeschichte-ii-requiem-arkaisk-edition
https://www.discogs.com/release/319948-Allerseelen-Requiem

C60, CD (extracts):
https://youtu.be/gW7YQWS33r8

C90 (extracts):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRVJEKk8Bw

ERWÄHLTE MANCH EDLER MÖNCH
VON DEM MAN HEUT KAUM SPRICHT
DAS LEICHENFELD ZUR WERKSTATT
UND ERZÄHLTE IN BILDERN UNS
VOM TODE STARK UND SCHLICHT

PLUS D´UN ILLUSTRE MOINE
AUJOURD´HUI PEU CITÉ
PRENANT POUR ATELIER LE CHAMP
DES FUNÉRAILLES
GLORIFIAIT LA MORT AVEC SIMPLICITÉ

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

„All the tracks are extremely stark, striped-back and ultra bleak in their slurred ritual industrial feel. The linear notes talk about autumn tiredness, crypts and death, and that's exactly what the music here sounds like - it's grey, earthy, musty and dread filled rattling with ageless despair and timeless gloom.” (www.musiquemachine.com)
http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=5654

“The artworks in the chambers of the Coemeterium Capucinorum in Rome consisted solely of the bones of unknown monks. And unknown too remained the artist and monk that had realized this almost surrealistic Capuchin Cemetery centuries ago. It was his obsession to create circles, crosses, thorny crowns, flowers, garlands, hearts, stars from thousands of bones and skulls of his dead brothers. For years, decades, maybe even centuries, this unknown Capuchin had worked in his Totengarten, his garden of death, which knew just one season: autumn." (Gerhard Hallstatt: Mönch und Mörder. Dreitausend tote Kapuziner)

http://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/music
https://retortae.bandcamp.com/music

http://www.discogs.com/seller/Aorta.Mailorder

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Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen), Menuo Juodaragis, Zarasai, Lithuania c Cabeza de Lobo 26.08.2011

Mėnuo Juodaragis:
https://mjr.lt/lt/
https://www.facebook.com/MJRfest
https://www.instagram.com/menuojuodaragis/

Cabeza de Lobo:
https://t.me/cabezadelobo
https://www.facebook.com/palipaster
https://www.instagram.com/cabeza.de.lobo.ink/

Allerseelen:
http://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/music
https://retortae.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/allerseelen.allerseelen
https://www.instagram.com/gerhard.hallstatt/

Aorta Mailorder:
http://www.discogs.com/seller/Aorta.Mailorder
https://www.facebook.com/aorta.mailorder.aorta

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"Geduldig nahm ich nach und nach von allem Abschied." (Friedrich Hölderlin: Hyperion)

"Und furchtlos gehn die Söhne der Alpen über den Abgrund weg auf leichtgebaueten Brüken." (Friedrich Hölderlin: Patmos)

"Itzt sind die Helden tot, die Inseln der Liebe sind entstellt." (Friedrich Hölderlin: Tränen)

Personal statement by Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen)

Austria is, as Switzerland, a small neutral country in Central Europe and always has to be cautious, critical, sceptical concerning all influences from the West and East, concerning all attempts to be taken over by one side, NATO, or the other, Russia. To be critical means to listen to all sides. I am an Austrian citizen and thus decided to be neutral too concerning conflicts and wars in other areas, even if they are really close - there is just one country, Hungary, between Austria and Ukraine. As most members of Allerseelen are Austrian citizens, Allerseelen is a neutral project too. Allerseelen have performed various times in Ukraine and in Russia, we have followers and friends in both countries.

Austria has its own experience after the second world war with ten years of Russian occupation - which was longer than the time of having being annected by the Third Reich. From narrations of my grandparents and historical reports I know what this meant to the Austrian people: psychoterror and terror.

On a very personal level, I have been working for a long time in an enterprise where I am the only Austrian in a wonderful team of employees and students that come from two countries: from Ukraine and Russia. In this enterprise we also frequently have visitors from several enemy states, for example Israel and Palestine, so it is a real necessity and essential virtue to maintain a neutral position with a certain distance. And this critical neutral position I also have in my private life and also as artist. I am working together with these Ukrainian and Russian colleagues and friends in a harmonious and peaceful way. All of us created together an island of peace without conflicts where diplomacy and respect and thoughtfulness are real virtues - something that maybe may sound unbelievable to some readers of these lines who are too often slaves of propaganda. Yet it is the truth. And this island of peace is a vision or even virus that should be spread - not the world of fanatism, propaganda, psychoterror, terror, violence and war that we are experiencing in a brutal way in Ukraine and Russia, in the Middle East and many other areas. The world is a barrel of gunpowder, and everyone who lives in it should be aware of this, doing his best to avoid its explosion.

Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen), 03.04.2024

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Allerseelen:
http://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/music
https://retortae.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/allerseelen.allerseelen
https://www.instagram.com/gerhard.hallstatt/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/24241-Allerseelen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Neutrality

Elisabethkirchlein, 1796 m, Schneeberg, Niederösterreich c Gerhard Hallstatt 08.04.2024

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabethkirche_%28Hochschneeberg%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_Memorial_Church

Elisabethkirchlein - Allerseelen CD Terra Incognita:
https://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/album/terra-incognita

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/7117108-Allerseelen-Terra-Incognita

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKAqE1ExUU

https://wandernimwienerwald.com/2021/01/02/zeitkapsel-008-wintersonnenwende-auf-dem-schneeberg-21-12-2013-gerhard-hallstatt/

The Rilke-Stein is a stone from the Sentiero Rilke, the Rilke Trail between Sistiana and Duino in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia. This stone is an apparently insignificant, yet very active musician in Allerseelen playing electric violin in a very innovative and almost violent way on some at the time of writing unreleased songs. A gift from Katharina c Gerhard Hallstatt 11.01.2023

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilkeweg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilke_trail

https://wandernimwienerwald.com/2023/06/30/triest-schloss-duino-rilke-wanderweg-strada-napoleonica/

https://wandernmitkindern.com/author/katbliem/

"Damit ist wieder einer der Irrwege zu Ende gegangen, es gibt keinen, den zu gehen ich nicht bereit wäre." (Werner Herzog: Eroberung des Nutzlosen. Iquitos 25.9.80)

Allerseelen: Vsjaka Valna. Klangkapsel 040.

https://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/merch/allerseelen-stundenglas-hourglass-52-klangkapseln-52-sound-capsules

"Klangkapsel / Sound Capsule 040 is like a small boat on the Danube, somewhere between the Black Forest and the Black Sea. Black and melancholic is also its atmosphere. Its title is всяка вълна, Vsjaka Valna - the Bulgarian words for Every Wave. This composition was inspired by several travels to Bulgaria and the Black Sea and also by years of collaborations with the musician Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Miel Noir) who has his roots in this beautiful country. The song was published on the CD compilation Iznutri by Ewers Tonkunst in Russia in 2007. The minimal just consist of these words: "und jede Welle bringt mich näher" ("and every wave brings me closer"). It remains an enigma - to the listener as well as to the poet himself - if this movement means a being brought closer to a beginning or an end of something, to an hour of truth named love or death or desillusion or something entirely different. The Black Sea wave sounds in the song were recorded close to Калиакра, Kaliakra. Additional inspirations for this song apart from personal experiences and impressions were also the poem Gesang der Geister über den Wassern (Song of the Spirits over the Waters) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the composition The Perfect Fool by Gustav Holst. A very different song with a very similar title in German - Jede Welle (Every Wave) - appeared on the Allerseelen CD Rauhe Schale. This had been inspired by Croatia and the Adriatic Sea." (Gerhard Hallstatt 15.04.2024)

Music, vocals: Gerhard Hallstatt.
Recorded at Haus zur letzten Latern.
Mastered at House of Mirkmoon.

Iznutri:
https://www.discogs.com/de/release/968689-Various-Iznutri

Allerseelen: Jede Welle (Rauhe Schale)
https://allerseelen.bandcamp.com/track/jede-welle

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesang_der_Geister_%C3%BCber_den_Wassern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesang_der_Geister_%C3%BCber_den_Wassern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfect_Fool

Photograph: Die Bernsteinkatze im Wasser. The Amber Cat in the Water c Gerhard Hallstatt 07.10.2007

Stundenglas / Hourglass is a special subscription project by the Austrian project Allerseelen that has been active for many years in a unique field of force between ritual music, industrial music, neofolk and krautpop.

The subscribers receive in 52 weeks 52 sound capsules. These are exclusive compositions, live recordings, soundscapes or works in progress with a certain timeless quality. Each mp3 has a length between 30 and 300 seconds, available via e-mail or WeTransfer.

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