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01. CLARA HILL - Konkav
02. CLARA HILL - Dawn of a New Day
03. CLARA HILL - Dripstone Cave
04. CLARA HILL - Insomnia
05. CLARA HILL - Night Work
06. CLARA HILL - Lost Winter
07. CLARA HILL - Walk the Distance
08. CLARA HILL - Heading Out
09. CLARA HILL - Glacial Morain (Original)
10. CLARA HILL - Konvex
ARTIST
TITLE
Walk the Distance
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 272CD TR 272CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/29/2013

After a four-year break from recording, Clara Hill returns with Walk the Distance, which takes her back to her early youth. The un-self-conscious 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. 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.