Ecartele is an imaginary soundtrack to a feature film project from the 1970s about the meeting of two great thinkers of the 20th century - the Nobel Prize winner for physics Wolfgang Pauli and the psychoanalyst and creator of the archetype theory Carl Gustav Jung. The album musically tells the story of an unusual friendship between the two researchers and takes them on a journey into the mysterious borderland between physics and the psychology of the unconscious

The album title (from French écarteler) comes from the medieval method of execution of the division into four parts and at the same time refers to Jungian concept of the Quaternio - a cross of two pairs of terms that complement each other in a polar way. Thus two other people play an important role in the Jung-Pauli exchange: on the one hand, the young English doctor Erna Rosenbaum, who joined the circle around C.G. Jung at the end of the 1920s... and finally the mathematician, astronomer and theologian Johannes Kepler, whose work strongly inspired Pauli

The pieces on the album are short, episodic, minimalist and narrative. A musical script and soundtrack for a film that could never be realized..

In order to develop a sound palette that is both modern and cinematic, composer Damian Marhulets works with electronic sounds on the one hand, and with the four strings of the renowned Szymanowski Quartet and piano manipulations by Marina Baranova on the other.