Carrousel by The Phantom String
With its two tracks, Carrousel is a digital single, not an album. With this, The Phantom String take a step back to the 2020 album Twin. The francophone Carrousel was the piece with the most song-like character on the album, it also could be heard in its original almost six minutes long version on the compilation Grenzwellen Acht. In this three-minute single version, however, it is heavily shortened straight to the main theme.
I declined to create real video clips as I released Twin in 2020 for time and cost reasons, but I wanted to do moving images for three of my songs for a better presentation on video platforms that visually support the mood and feeling of the tracks. One of my ideas was a video clip in the guise of a 70s film opening credits, which ultimately resulted in this short version of Carrousel.
The B-side of the single is the title La Présence temporaire, which was also featured on the album Twin. On the single version, only the ending is a little shortened. This dark piece of music has always been overshadowed a bit by other tracks of the album. Anyone who is familiar with Polanski's film The Fearless Vampire Killers possibly may hear the Krzysztof Komeda influence on this title. Both tracks have a very cinematic acoustical side, but are subtly complemented by electronics.
Tracklist
| 1. | Carrousel | 3:06 |
| 2. | Le présence temporaire | 4:10 |
Credits
all tracks written, performed, produced & mixed by Olaf Kujat
original photographs by Kai-Patric Fricke
License
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THE PHANTOM STRING is a studio project launched 2015 by Olaf Kujat to realize dark and atmospheric albums with a cosmos on its own, with an electronic sound that is as organic as possible. Kujat's main instrument is the synthesizer, but even so Kujat likes to play with the peculiarities of acoustic instruments with an idiosyncratic sound.