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Maren Gamper

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[An Improvisation Inspired by Schwarzenbachs Text, Performed on a 1919 Brtner Piano]Erdenschwere (The Weight of the Earth), the debut solo album by Swiss pianist Maren Gampfer, is an improvisation inspired by a text written on June 22, 1942, in Tetouan, Morocco, by Swiss poet and photographer poet, and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, written on June 22, 1942, in Tetouan, Morocco. The Weight of the Earth is a central theme in Schwarzenbachs literature, encompassing existential melancholy, a thirst for freedom, and the struggle with the weight of life; Gampfer juxtaposes the resonance of her piano with the words of a writer whose lifemarked by anti-fascism, drug addiction, and depressionand Gamp confronts them with the resonance of the piano. The recording was made in a quiet studio on the Baltic Sea coast, far from the hustle and bustle of daily life, using a 1919 Blthner piano. It is an i