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Pingipung Podcast 144: Menqui - Capricorn

If you're reading this, chances are that your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain—and by the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it.
Mindfulness of breathing—how to “put out the welcome mat” for whatever arises in one's experience
What to do about pain—how to work with intense and unwanted sensations
Working with thoughts and emotions—how to avoid identifying with your experience of pain and instead see sensations and thoughts as sensations and thoughts
Resting in awareness—a three-minute mindful pause to restore balance, resilience, and self-compassion
Mindfulness in everyday life—allowing the nitty-gritty of one's daily life to be both the ultimate meditation teacher and the real meditation practice

Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Sample by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Cycles of the flow

Music for Indoors 33 comes from a reserved figure of Berlin's underground. ✨🌗 

Co-running R.i.O. label and being part of the monthly Past Forward Show on Cashmere Radio, @Menqui always strives to offer quality music. He DJs in Neukölln spots like @Sameheads, OTB, Ziegra11..., and at Fusion, @cosmicgathering, Nation of Gondwana, Zmar... Festivals. 

His wonderful mix for our Music for Indoors series www.instagram.com/ecoutesauvert, locks its slow rhythm & mood right from the start, flowing through deep ambient along meditative grooves. 

@Menqui was born in Pforzheim, a small city on the border of the beautiful black forest. After visiting Berlin a few times, he moved there in 2013. In his teenage years, his older Brother inspired him with his CD collection which was focused on US Hip-Hop and electronic projects like Prodigy, Kruder & Dorfmeister, and so on. He also had the chance to learn the violin, but the instrument never "clicked" with him, thus stopping around 13 years old. 

Later he turned his interests to Skateboarding and roots reggae, dub and jungle musically. As they didn't have any good events in their hometown, together with his good friend Benedikt Frey, they organized events called "Larifari", which were mainly focused on dub techno and deep house. 

Since then, @Menqui has spent much time in record shops and browsing the web discovering all kinds of music, from obscure German tracks from the 70s and 80s to psychedelic funk from all around the globe to more wavy stuff, Ambient, Krautrock, and much more...

In 2019, he founded @riolabel with @freybenedikt and @daloworks, to release experimental dance music with a psychedelic touch, which is also suited for home listening.

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MFI 33

Music for Indoors 33 - MENQUI (R.i.O. / Past Forward - Berlin)

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Albion - Mixtura 16 (2011)

Painting by Eliza Wagener

Music selection by Glooming Silhouettes (@snakedance44 & @avavava-826629204)

Recorded at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof on the opening night of the exhibition Linger Longer, Windowpecker by Eliza Wagener

The word ‘Windowpecking’ describes the act of wandering through a city and becoming mesmerised by shop fronts and the windows of residential buildings and flats. Initially, the practice of ‘Windowpecking’ may be an act that occurs rather automatically when strolling around in unfamiliar areas. It is linked to the practice of drifting.

‘Windowpecking’ creeps its way into one’s walking, until one finally realizes that there is a pattern in the randomly occurring, unplanned paths one takes and their gaze remains glued to certain panes of glass and lingers.

Like a bird hammering on a window to request entry, ‘Windowpecking’ reminds us of the separation between internal and external, private and public, sidewalk and interior, of lantern light and bedside lamp.

Wagener's namesake series captures the fleeting encounters that occur on both sides of a window, between passersby and residents, in small-format paintings and a corresponding audio piece. Translucent figures appear behind the windows, taking on forms of everyday gestures as they are immersed in soft light. The glass both separates and allows for a temporary intimacy, leaving us in the in-between space: to detach ourselves and move on or to be longingly embraced by the world behind the windows.

Curated by Elisa Nessler.

Photos by Maik Gräf.

The exhibition is kindly supported by the Sparkasse Harburg-Buxtehude and Galerie Noah Klink (Berlin).

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