DAMIEN

FALL 1888
- The Ripper Files-

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Album

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In so-called "Autumn of the Terror" in 1888
a murder series shook late Victorian London which caused
such a sensation as one had never experienced it so before.
An unknown serial killer murdered 5 prostitutes in the miserable
and despicable London East in brutal and cruelest manner.
He became world-famous under the pseudonym "Jack the Ripper".

About the theory who was this murderer who held London
 and completely England from August to November, 1888
in breath, there are many speculations, rumours and legends.
People from the Upper Class, how the royal conspiracy theory
as well as from the East could be possible.
The last riddle will be never presumably solved.

The secret and the legends behind this person
and the events in autumn, 1888 fascinates the people till this day.
 


The Whitechapel Mystery,
 from "The Penny Illustrated Paper,"
8th September 1888


The case of Mary Jane Kelly
 from "The Penny Illustrated Paper,"
9th November 1888

As a big horror - and mysticism fan the history
 has always fascinated me around "Jack the Ripper".
 The time in that the murders happened  was the late 19th century
and no other age was marked thus by industrialisation
and development like this.

 It was a time where it was a fashion to carry out necromancy and seances
in high circles, where to extend his consciousness one tried
with hallucinogenic drugs and where the people eat arsenic like candies.
The idea for this album guested already in 2000 in my head
when I read the appeared "Jack the Ripper" diary.
I found interesting to process some of these events in purely instrumental
 pieces of music and sound collagens.

Now this draught Album is finished and there has come out a cold,
melancholy, electronic work with 15 pieces which is capable
 of the dark atmosphere of those days -maybe...

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