An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg - Alain-Paul Mallard Cramps records relation and community that continue

relation and community that continue to dominate both our artistic and cultural conversation

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Accompanied by Gianni Ricchizzi on vichitra vina (a plucked zither played with a glass ball slide) and her own tanpura

And what if it is done with one’s own body

An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg - Alain-Paul Mallard Cramps records relation and community that continueA miniature portrait in misanthropy and an oblique account of the trauma that was the twentieth century, An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg is a Borgesian account of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has produced. In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of a man whose fragmented life crosses paths with fictional and non