The first track is entitled “A61 (Wanderwellen)”, and its existence was sparked by one of the many road trips to Stuttgart. Instead of listening to a CD or to a radio station, Steffan chose to put the dial in between stations and see what random sounds or stations would be pushed through the layers of white noise. All of us happy Vital readers have done this at some point on various waves on various radios, so the basics of what you will hear on this track is no secret. But you all also know that the ‘happy accidents’ make it so much fun to do it. What is being broadcasted when, by whom, is there enough information to extrapolate the date of recording, the location of the stations, maybe the band which was recorded … In my opinion, that is what this track is about. A bit different than ‘Surfing the waves’, this is more like ‘Wave Hiking’ (which, as I think is the meaning of the subtitle, with A61 being the highway’s designation).
“Punk Haus Piano” is another registration/field recording. About 10 to 15 years ago Steffan visited Frankfurt am Main and in a venue he found an old piano (here and there slightly out of tune) and after he put his microcassette dictaphone on top he started playing until he was out of tape. This track is those recordings and I can’t say much more about it. Maybe these recordings found their way onto other releases as sound sources; maybe they will in the future; who knows? This is, however, part of Steffan’s history; it made him who he is now as an artist, and therefore, it’s interesting. But just not too often … 😉
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