autopista by ml

In december I finished an audiovisual trilogy of colours (yellow/red/blue -> my youtube channel www.youtube.com/@vollesonne). A further tryptich was originally planned: white/grey/black. I started with white but the result was not convincing to me. Even though I inserted lyrics (by Robert Lax) as a new element, it felt like a mere repetition of what I did before. Repetition is not inherently a bad thing - you can show something about time, its duration, its passage. Catharsis may be won out of hypnotic repetition, the flow... But - no, it was just doing the same in a minimal different but not enriching way. The visuals did not add anything to the music. I had done a lot of audiovisuals in 2023, solo music only as improvisations - so the time seems right to work out a new album with pure sound.
Of course, initially the album was supposed to be called "weiß" (white) but the focus changed over time (remaining "musica blanca" the only survivor). E.g. a sequel of "wehr" (cannot be translated into english) was added. The concept of "wehr" was drafted in the beginning of the pandemic years. The material is reduced to three fieldrecordings, a caretaker working with two leaf blowers at the same time, the radio transmission of a footballmatch (goal Haaland) and a churchorgan. The series is to be continued.
Title and title track are a reminiscence to Kraftwerks "Autobahn" - the album was released 50 years ago - a vinyl that was very important to me as a teenager (I still own the double album). The spanish title has personal reasons and also points out that more than half the album was created in Spain. To remain consistently inconsistent, the coverphoto is a snapshot from a portuguese highway. But at least the car-tape-music comes from Spain, it is the beginning of the superb "Arrinconamela" by Gritos del Guerra, taken from the splendid Flamenco-Movie "Vengo" by Tony Gatlif.
The one and only beat on this album ("musica comercial") is from my dearest friend Andreas Fischer, thanks for that!

making experimental music, non-music, fake-music since the mid-80s. most of the time in improvisers-lifetime-project kdg (kdg-magamat.bandcamp.com). additional electronic (solo-)works since 2004 with no-budget-free-software only.

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