Die “Magnum Opus Collectio”-Reihe des Berliner Labels Undogmatisch um den Klangkünstler Mirco Magnani wird Ende April mit einem zweiten Teil erweitert, der einmal mehr dem Untertitel “The Three Phases of Alchemic Process as Spiritual Transmutation” verpflichtet ist. Gemäß dem Thema der alchemistischen Transformation von der Materia Prima zum Stein der Weisen folgt auf die initiale Auseinanersetzung mit dem dunklen Element Erde im Teil “Nigredo” nun “Albedo”, das sich mit der Begegnung des Menschen mit seinem Animus bzw. seiner Anima und mit der Integration seiner Kehrseite oder seines Schattens in sein Selbstbild befasst. Erneut ist das Album als Gemeinschaftsarbeit ähnlich gesinnter Musikerinnen und Musiker konzipiert, das Line-up – Bleedingblackwood, Mirco Magnani, Andrea de Witt, Seiji Morimoto, Gh⊕s††, Dinner Situation, Zen Lu, Ken Harter, High Fall, Mnnn, Contaminated Lifeforms, Robert Farrugia – überschneidet sich in Teilen mit dem Vorgänger-Album. “Albedo” erscheint digital mit Artwork von Valentina Bardazzi. Ein dritter Teil ist bereits geplant.

“MAGNUM OPUS COLLECTIO SERIES is a set of three volumes, each inspired by the different phases of the alchemical process, which works with the prima materia to create the philosopher‘s stone. The three phases of alchemic process have been used in the Hermetic tradition to describe personal and spiritual transmutation, as well as a medium in art and literature. These three phases also have been meant by Carl Gustav Jung as a model for the individuation process, an unrepeatable psychic process, which leads each individual to approach his ego with the self. In other words the individuation process is a progressive integration and unification of all shadows and complexes forming the personality within oneself. In the Jungian archetypal scheme, NIGREDO is the Shadow; ALBEDO refers to anima and animus; and RUBEDO is the archetype of the Self that has reached completeness.

In the field of analytical psychology, Jung equates “Albedo“ with the revelation of the archetype of the anima in men, and of the animus in women. According to Jung, the subject, after having become aware of the negative aspects of his own Shadow, has learned not to project them outwards, but to constructively confront them, leaving the unconscious identification with the undifferentiated collective psyche, and withdrawing consciously, through reflection, in the process of self-identification. The albedo ultimately consists in the distillation of the ego from the unconscious. This project involved the painter Valentina Bardazzi as the creator of three artwork concepts. The work will be on sale in digital form on Bandcamp, under the merchandise section of Undogmatisch. Every exemplar is printed on special matt paper and is hand stamped and signed by the artist.” (Undogmatisch)