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Inside.
Looking for Wonderland


Each track tells a story.
A story about the makers, about our world, about human imagination.

All instruments improvised. All recordings original. All sound found.

Fusing recordings from all over the world - the dawn chorus of Camilla’s wedding in NZ, other moments and places of wonder in NZ, New York, Europe.

 

Prelude
The first instrument we bought together in a dingy audio shop in London’s Angel. We found it in an unobtrusive glass cabinet. A mint-green soprano melodica.

The first track we ever made. A soundscape made of recordings from a dance and piano playing exchange inspired an improvisation with this little instrument captured in Camilla’s living room - listen closely for the passing car... The soundscape was no longer needed, stripped clean and the notes of the melodica could soar.


52 Second Fall

“Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly…”
Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland is rich with social comment. 52 seconds is a long fall but the edit is at a dizzying speed charging through sound bites from the turbulent environment in which we live. All the more reason for Alice to lead us to Wonderland.

 
Blue
The first step in Wonderland. A delicate, slightly unsteady, uneasy beauty. An afternoon improvisation on an old Steinway grand.

 
Queen’s Garden
A mysterious place, somewhere on the edge of childhood memory - darkly beautiful. Oscillating between worlds, where stories catch in the wind and creatures linger in the shadow. It was the last track to be completed.

Creating this magic garden had us laughing till we cried. Several takes on the whispering voices – we got pretty close to creating a horror/porn movie soundtrack! For everyone magic is different.

 
Mrs B’s Locket
The dynamic of life captured in one sentence. Sitting with this exceptional lady in her living room was precious, hearing her recall stories so raw took my breath away. Extracted from an interview by Christin of Annie, aged 96.

 
Black Chocolate
Described as somewhere between ‘fem rock’ and a country cowgirl song. We were inspired by sex, men, dark chocolate and guitars.

 
Fractal
A meditation on sound. A fractal is a fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is approximately a reduced-size copy of the whole. Derived from Latin, ‘fract’ means broken. This became a map of construction. Seeking to give breath, take one tiny segment of recorded sound, dive in and wonder at the patterns in this seeming chaos.

Natural objects often referred to as fractals include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes.  

 
Edison
Every great scientist has visited wonderland. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone for telephones, enabling this call between Camilla in New York and her grandfather in Christchurch NZ. Sam Maling passed away during the making of the album but his stories live on, they were a little girl’s introduction to Wonderland.

Edison also invented the phonograph or gramophone, a common device for playing recorded sound during the19th and 20th centuries.

 
Hartenstraat 25H
A love song. Behind a grey door, a steep stairwell, shallow steps. Climb to the top and cultures collide. When you open the door you see a piano, the experimental meets the classical.


The Red Pill?
Morpheous offers Neo a choice… There are various ways to get to wonderland and just as many reasons to go. To wake up, to escape, it’s intoxicating this distortion of reality. Ginger In Orange is an old fashioned cocktail, in this track you hear the drink in the making and perhaps even the effect.

This song celebrates our name.

Lotus
She blossoms at dawn, rising above the muddy water to reveal a delicate magic. As the light fades, she hides her colours and sinks into her watery bed. 

A lotus symbolizes the purity of heart and mind. The piano here has an exotic element flaring just for a short time. The piano is at the heart of Christin Rauter.


Epilogue
Finish on a high note but there’s always an edge. Love.

 

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