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German instrumental
prog-rock band
HALMA
will release album
‘Driving By Numbers’
track-list:
Phlegraean Fields
By The Way
Slow Song
Driving By Number
discography:
2000 Container verloren und gesunken CD
2003 Minifield CD
2006 Back to Pascal Vinyl/CD
2008 Broad Peak Vinyl/CD
2011 Dissolved Solids Vinyl/CD
2015 Granular Vinyl/CD
2019 The Ground Vinyl/CD
2024 Driving By Numbers Vinyl/CD
‘Driving By Numbers’ is the eighth album by the Hamburg band HALMA, out on May 24th on Kapitän Platte.
The four musicians Fiona McKenzie (drums), Andreas Voss (baritone guitar), Gundi Voigt (bass) and Thorsten Carstens (guitar) get straight down to business on the first track of this instrumental longplayer:
The sound structure grinds and flies – it’s impossible to immediately find your way through this surging abundance of the audible and the conceivable:
“You have to start again, begin again, in order to grasp the complex construction and artistic wit of this music.”
The band has released the first single ‘Phlegraean Fields’.
Sounds and rhythm play hare and hedgehog with each other:
catapult starts, accelerations, delays, fades in and out.
The variety makes it clear that the band’s focus lies in the unknown:
What can be heard works like the breadcrumbs in Hansel and Gretel’s forest – the associatively assembled improvisations lead through ups and downs and ravines and valleys to the goal after all:
and back to the beginning – like the pins with which insects are fixed in the display case – escaped from time…