Freedom to Spend Shares Lotti Tauber's "Kan - Das Abgründige, Das Wasser, Zweiter Sohn, - Gefährlich"

The final offering from Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity is "Kan - Das Abgründige, Das Wasser, Zweiter Sohn, - Gefährlich," unfurling just before the album arrives this Friday, November 13 on Freedom to Spend.

Tauber modeled her penultimate album on the predictive system of the I Ching, naming each track after one of the eight trigrams that compose the divinatory text’s hexagrams. “Kǎn” is the trigram related to the abyss, water, and risk; when two “kǎn” form a hexagram, they indicate that one is on a narrow path, on the precipice of danger. The descending chromaticism of Tauber’s piano in this piece represents such a constraint, and the struggle to create from within it.

Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings 1981-1986 unfolds in its entirety this Friday, November 13, 2026 on Freedom to Spend.