After a four-year break from recording, Clara Hill
returns with "Walk The Distance", which takes her back to her early
youth. The unselfconscious sound experiments that have always
accompanied her are met here with new inspirations, leading to an album
that sounds intimate and incredibly familiar, yet otherworldly.
As a young girl, an East German Triola, a Bulgarian
plastic guitar and a small plastic piano formed the basis of her musical
world. Throughout her youth, Clara Hill was influenced by music, but
her focus was on sound experiments rather than the quest for the perfect
composition. The plucking of the strings on her first piano or the
melancholic sounds of the bells of a grandfather clock today reawaken
formative memories.
The production of three albums was followed a long
pause from music, during which Clara Hill returned to these early
influences. The break was needed in order for limits to fall. Walk The
Distance is not about the pursuit of a smoothly produced album, but
about open experimentation, authenticity and the free development of
ideas.
With that in mind, Clara created song sketches on
her own at home and deliberately left room for small inaccuracies. These
little errors lend the album an endearing atmosphere that makes it
special. A new environment was also important. Hanno Leichtmann was
immediately inspired by the song sketches and produced a large part of
the album, Schneider TM plays a characteristic guitar on one piece and
Thomas Bücker (Bersarin Quartett) developed the opening track of the
album from one of the sketches. YoggyOne, aus, Kalle Kalima and Simon
Whetham were also involved.
The result is enchanting, magical and sometimes even
hallucinogenic, in some places intimate, otherworldly in others – Clara
Hill undergoes this journey through abstract soundscapes, thus newly
challenging both her audience and herself.
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