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Dipsomania is the name of the CD, Quispel Quintet is the name of the band. Fans of A.F.Th. van der Heijden’s cycle of novels The toothless time will prick up their ears just reading that title and name. Because isn’t “dipsomania” a fancy word for quarter-drinker, and in Advocaat van de hanen, the seventh part of the cycle, published in 1991, isn’t the protagonist Ernst Quispel such a periodic drinker-without-rem?

Indeed Viennese saxophonist and clarinetist Leonhard Skorupa (36) was inspired by The toothless age to create the eclectic album Dipsomania. The quintet’s name is borrowed from the troubled lawyer in Van der Heijdens novel, also filmed in 1996. There are twelve tracks on the CD. One of those tracks is called Schneenacht im September, after the ending of The Court of Mercy which, together with Under the Pavement the Marsh , forms the third part of the cycle. (translated with deepL.com)

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