Don’t tell anyone that they haven’t been warned: “Happy is he who plays halma behind the stove with the owl,” someone sings while something clatters that somehow sounds like a computer, but at the same time sounds like the Middle Ages. That’s fine. At least in the world of the world dream explorers. They are an imaginary trio that the Zurich artist Christian Pfluger invented in 1981 and has been writing ever since – not only with hundreds of songs, but also with novels, drawings, maps, sketches of living spaces, research reports and even their own writing .
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This is how a complex, quirky world of dream figures such as Iguana Riddle Man or Kip Eulenmeister emerged, which was even presented in a retrospective in the Kunsthaus Langenthal in 2013, and from which Die Welttraumforscher are now broadcasting new whimsical pieces with LIEDERBUCH. Some tracks sound like a pubescent spaceship that beeps melancholically, “She came to you and painted flowers” is then again a quite conventional singer-songwriter ballad, “Quittenmarmelade” is an atonally slipped children’s song. As much charm as the individual pieces develop, it is much more fun to discover the fantasy world from which they originate.
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