专辑简介

Frank Benkho's second release on clang continues his investigation into the possibilities of improvisation with analog instruments, effect pedals and voice. In terms of sound, 'A Trip To The Space [Between]' continues where 'The Revelation According to Frank Benkho' ended, but displays many new features when it comes to the development of themes and musical material in general. Abrupt changes, dark twists and freely disposed developments are set on an experimental, electronic backdrop that retains aspects of an ambient minimalism that captivates with its delicate transformations of space and time. The instruments breathe, whisper and shout, converse amiably and clash viciously while voices of unknown origin transmit indecipherable messages.

The title and the tracks names resemble at first sight a sort of journey in the solar system and its surroundings, but at closer examination and attentive listening reveal to us that it in fact concerns an internal mind-journey. The spaces we experience are those that we as humans create between us can be just as vast, void and insurmountable as the distance that separate us from the center of the universe. While the speakers become silent, we humans fall inescapably into our own extinction...