V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Berlin “It’s grappling with what I

“It’s grappling with what I imagined he would have felt leaving this earth

Advaitic Songs achieves a level of composition that would've been impossible to foresee

supplied Jelinek with multi-layered song sketches that the German artist subjected to a rigorous process of manipulation

letting space

is reconfigured as a continuous field — dense yet permeable

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Berlin “It’s grappling with what IThe political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title "United States Of Melancholia" refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising facade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheer