BOOKLET: https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1383302/the-nearness-song-cycle-lyrics-and-story.pdf

INTRODUCTION: The song cycle narrates the recurring convergence of two primordial forces—Call and Echo—whose separation gives rise to the world and whose periodic reunions shape the course of human experience. These two entities originate in a pre-temporal state in which sound and memory existed as a single undivided presence, before the emergence of time, history, form, or identity. Their initial division enables creation to unfold, since distance allows resonance, recognition, and longing. Yet this division also ensures that they remain bound to one another: distinct, but never wholly separate; distant, but always drawn to convergence. The cycle therefore traces their meetings not as isolated events, but as recurring patterns across the vast geography of time. The narrative situates these reunions at various points in human history, beginning with moments that precede written record. Later manifestations occur in recognizable cultural contexts, such as Florence in 1478, during the world of Renaissance workshop culture; Vienna in 1792, among the philosophical and musical transformations of the late Enlightenment; Paris in 1911, at the threshold of modernism; Berlin in 2042, within an imagined near-future shaped by new forms of memory and technology. These locations are not intended to imply exclusivity to Europe; similar encounters can be found in other regions and eras, where the same pattern of recognition, creation, and inevitable separation reappears. The recurrence is not determined by fate in the strict sense, but emerges through the subtle interplay of circumstance, perception, and emotional resonance.

Each meeting is characterized by a brief interval of profound intimacy, during which the world becomes newly possible. Yet every reunion also carries the inevitability of dissolution, since their roles—expression and remembrance—maintain the structure of existence itself. The cycle, therefore, is not a tragedy of loss, but a meditation on how closeness and distance together generate meaning. Whenever Call and Echo encounter one another, history acquires direction, art gains depth, and individuals feel the presence of something known before they could name it. The cycle continues as long as time continues, and its conclusion, if it has one, would require the world to return to its original stillness.

The album has many instrumentals with dialogue - or duologues and convergences - with violins, sax, guitars, flute and cello across the album. There is a big range of musical styles.