*100 copies limited edition.* A raw sonic document of exile, trauma, and transformation, this CD collects early works by Hungarian artist Sándor Vály, recorded between 1988 and 1992. Created using homemade instruments, rudimentary electronics, and cassette gear, these tracks trace a turbulent path through desertion, psychiatric confinement, political escape, and cultural rebirth. Inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and personal upheaval, Bardo Tödol I–II, SoulDrum, and other recordings evoke a haunting inner journey between life, death, and renewal.

Bardo Tödol I.- Bardo Tödol II. (1988) and SoulDrum (1989)
In the spring of 1988 I received my military draft. As I had no intention of joining the army, I fled to France. I lived in very difficult conditions in Paris until I had to come back at the end of 1988. As I was a deserter under the laws of the time, I was sentenced to several years in prison. On my return home, on the advice of a friend, I was admitted to a mental hospital after a suicide scene in a public place, and after seven months I was discharged with borderline syndrome. During these seven months of confinement, I encountered some astonishing human dramas that influenced my later life and art. It was at this time that I started reading in the mental hospital the Tibetan and Egyptian Book of the Dead, among others, which also influenced the theme of Early Works. After I was discharged I started to process musically the stories I had experienced. The army, escaping, Paris, the return, the situations I experienced in the asylum, my liberation, etc. From this material I recorded Bardo Tödol I - II (1988) and SoulDrum (1989). For the recordings I connected my father's C-cassette recorder to a radio amplifier with a distortion and an analogue delay. For the recordings I used a microphone, a primitive electric guitar of my own construction, a Russian synthesizer, a trumpet and a piano I found at my mother's workplace.

Limbus Patrum, SoulDrum, Life-Death, Melancholy (1992)
In 1990 I met my Finnish wife in an anarchist club in Budapest and moved to Finland that same year. In Helsinki in 1992 I had my first opportunity to work with computers. At that time the keyboard of the computer was connected to a very rudimentary sound program, which produced strange beeping, throbbing sounds and rhythms. I started experimenting with that; a four-channel C-cassette mixer, a multi-function effects machine and a piano. It was a strange, dreamlike time. Love, my marriage, change of country, new language, culture, society, the birth of my children and the harsh northern climate, alternating darkness and insomnia, left their emotional stamp on these recordings. The songs Limbus Patrum, SoulDrum, Life-Death, Melancholy were selected from these recordings.