Brussels artist Sophie Schneider and her husband Antoine Beuger’s project “A Trauma Daze” is about the trauma of being left alone in one’s own land. The pair have lived in Germany for over 30 years and have two children who live in the UK. In their introduction to the CD, they write, “We’re not citizens, but we do have the right to visit our children”. With this in mind, they set out to do just that.

The result is an album of music that is both intimate and expansive, and the duo’s repeated attempts at self-expression. These two tracks on “A Trauma Daze” (“Härenfeuer” and “Här-D”) are the soundtrack to a dream, or a dream sequence, in which Schneider’s husband is chased by a phantom or a phantom. It’s a dream in which the narrator has vanished from the narrative, replaced by an ominous soundtrack of occasional gunfire, and the narrative has been distorted by a familiar narrative-trajectory of fleeing.