Published
Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 17:15
- Profan's next LP uses the human voice to surreal effect.
This October, Profan will release Kafkatrax, a compilation of Wolfgang Voigt's recent string of EPs.
Much like last year's Freiland Klaviermusik, Kafkatrax shows the Kompakt co-founder's avant-garde side. This time his focus is the human voice, layered over a 4/4 pulse. For source material, Voigt used recitations of Kafka's writing, but his choice of this author in particular is mostly incidental: the material is so thoroughly chopped up and rearranged that it becomes "entirely meaningless to the final product." Reduced to unintelligible fragments, the voices have a strange and hypnotic effect that characterizes the album. All of the songs on Kafkatrax were originally released over the past few months in a three-part series of limited edition, hand-painted vinyl.
Tracklist
01. Kafkatrax 1.0
02. Kafkatrax 1.1
03. Kafkatrax 1.2
04. Kafkatrax 2.0
05. Kafkatrax 2.1
06. Kafkatrax 2.2
07. Kafkatrax 2.3
08. Kafkatrax 3.0
09. Kafkatrax 3.1
10. Kafkatrax 3.3
11. Kafkatrax 3.4
Profan will release Kafka Trax on October 11th, 2011.