from
Sound Maps For The Dreamer III,
released October 18, 2019
Piet Schen - Annual Rituals, 06:07 min, 48/24
The volcano Eifel is a rural area in the southwest of
Germany near the border to Belgium and Luxembourg.
Periphery.
The lives of the people in the villages are still shaped
and structured by communal religious rituals, in
everyday life as well as throughout the life course.
In the recording, some of the rituals are documented
throughout the seasons, starting with the rattle at Easter
(in which the children pull loudly through the village
streets to replace the church bells) to the St. Martin fire
at the end of the year.