| 1.fonzie 2.new years eve 3.avant garden 4.globetrotter 5.sumsmoove trip |
6.bare 7.two trees 8.back to canada 9.eleven thorns 10. minya 11.immortality |
Bonus Tracks:
12.Avant Garden (Drum and
Bass Remix)
13.Sumsmoove Trip (Trip Hop Remix)
14.Hello Stranger (Outtake)
15. Globetrotter (Drum and Bass Remix)
16.Avant Garden (Trip Hop Remix)
17.Eleven Thorns (Video)
No Space For Words
1.fonzie
The original version of this song was actually meant to be a hoax. It was
a dancefloor track i produced to play a joke on a friend of mine, but I liked
the chorus part too much to waste it. So I rearranged the track, replaced the
synths with guitars and recorded it. In order to obtain this reverse sound for
the interlude I had to learn to play the part backwards, reversing it afterwards.
Finally Michi laughed into the mic. She also said the phrase "can you do that
again". The looped voice at the beginning is mine.
2.new
years eve download
Composed
and arranged, as the title suggests, on new years eve. For the first time I
tried to incorporate an oriental touch into this song. But there is also a certain
"spy groove" rippling through the verse. "New Years Eve" is one of my favourite
tracks to play on stage. There are a lot of stories that could be told about
it, both about thematic and technical aspects, but I think in this case the
music should do the talking.
3.avant
garden
This is a rather gloomy song. I like to play it as the opener at our gigs. Tricked
by my computer, I had to record the whole song anew, although I have already
had completed it. For the bass parts I fell back on Alex Jilg and his 5 strings.
He did not know the song very well but managed to copy the basslines true to
the original programmings. He spent a night waking, aging a couple of years
in just a few hours but the end justifies the means.
4.globetrotter
The oldest song to be found on "No Space". The original version was written
at the time when I was playing in the band "Solar Eclipse" with Alex and Robert
Jilg. After years I programmed a version with didgeridoos and percussion. The
lead guitar parts were added even later. This track reflects the aggressive
and more rock-based side of "No Space for Words". "Globetrotter" deals with
wanderlust and the wish to go out into the big, wide world.
6.bare
download
Originally planned for the next album, but I couldn´t wait. We played this
Jungle Track very often live. Alltough this version is more synthetic and electronic
then the live version.
7.two
trees
Previously
named "Two Rivers", this is a song from the early days, like "Globetrotter".
It was written very fast. A rough version was programmed within a few hours
and I recorded a tentative guitar track. Two years later I rerecorded the song
for "No Space For Words". Since I had got used to the old version so much, I
simply copied the originally improvisational soli.
8.back
to Canada
"Back to Canada" is structured similarly to "New Years Eve". I wanted to
use some ethno elements here, however, most evidently effecting the programming
of the percussions. The song used to be one and a half minutes longer and was
my first song to be edited after it was completed. The name does not really
have a message. Basically it was just an allusion to my friend and band member,
Lászlo Váncsa's fascination for Canada, he had then. Now I tend to think of
more abstract titles for my songs and Lászlo has since turned into an Ireland
freak.
9.eleven
thorns download
I often play intros like "Eleven Thorns". A guitar, a brief melody
and some effects. This one is based upon a fragment of "Immortality". I still
have a lot of similar pieces up my sleeve.
10. minya
Sometimes writing a song is really effortless. Inspirations virtually pour down
on you. This was not the case when I composed "Minya", although it seemed easy
at the beginning. In the course of a nightly jam session with a couple of friends
I came up with this strange melody played on a melodica. At the crack of dawn
we went home and I started arranging the song right away. I decided to baptize
it "Minya" because that is the name of a girl, who was present that night and
gave a fairly crazy impression (in a positiv sense). Then I was stricken by
a writer's block and had to put it on hold.
11.immortality
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