Lieder ohne Worte no. 19 opus 53 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

In Those Days is a dark-fantasy jazz/blues concept album built on the book of Judges—half film score, half rock opera, all one continuous world.

Obligé scores a crownless Canaan with smoky horns, upright bass, haunted guitars, and stormy drums: temple nightclubs for Baal, crooked odd-meter stealth for the left-handed assassin, noir prophecy under the palm tree, iron chariots rolling like war machines, midnight tension in Jael’s tent, Gideon shaking in a winepress, a daughter caught in the teeth of a vow, and a man who looks ordinary but tears down gates and pillars by a strength that makes no sense.

Some tracks play like pure score, others like songs sung from inside the story, but the same themes keep resurfacing—motifs slipping between sax lines and vocals, big-band blasts giving way to quiet, wounded prayers. This is Judges as a jazz-shadowed myth: no king, too many gods, and a handful of fragile people trying to stand up in the ruin.

Upon His Head

Second violin track in the Winter Session Album

Silent Nights - Winter Session 2 - Op.7 No.2

Story
Eguzki & Ilargi. The Dance of the Two Skies
In the beginning, when the world still had no name, Eguzki burned alone in the sky, a golden fire that sang without ceasing. Its light was so intense that trees bent, rivers evaporated, and creatures hid in the shadows. Eguzki was strength, it was rhythm, it was eternal day.
But the world longed for rest.
From the deep waters of the Urtzi, Ilargi emerged, the silver Moon, woven with threads of silence and reflections. Ilargi did not speak, but her presence calmed. Where Eguzki burned, Ilargi caressed. Where Eguzki screamed, Ilargi whispered.
Eguzki saw her and stopped. For the first time, the Sun stopped singing.
"Who are you, who extinguishes my fire without words?" Eguzki asked.
"I am the pause between your notes," Ilargi replied. "I am the shadow that shapes your light."
From then on, they began their dance. Never together, but always in dialogue. Eguzki crossed the sky with a firm step, and when he retreated, Ilargi ascended with his cloak of mystery. Sometimes, they brushed against each other during eclipses, and the world held its breath.
Humans, seeing them, created songs. They said Eguzki was the heart of the day, and Ilargi, the soul of the night. They said they were lovers condemned to distance, or brothers who guarded the extremes of time.

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Sonic Universe

Eguzki & Ilargi

Big English Music Box

Frederick Delius: 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra, RTvi/19: I. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Classical Christmas: Greatest Orchestral Holiday Classics

Cantata, BWV 208 "Sheep May Safely Graze"

Mozart Allegro

String Quartet No. 3 I. Presto K156

Mozart and Haydn Two by Two

String Quartet No.8 K168 I. Allegro

String Quartet No.8 K168 II. Andante

recording of a rehearsal / 22nd of Mai 2019
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Angela Stummer-Stempkowski - Harfe
Thomas Stempkowski - Kontrabass

String Quartet No.8 K168 II. Andante

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