Mirabel Voss shared that the album's creative spark arrived during a solitary journey through the Mojave Desert — ten days with a handheld recorder, a borrowed guitar and no phone signal. The recordings from that trip, mostly wind and distant highway hum, became the bed underneath half the record.
“The desert is the loudest quiet I have ever heard,” they said in a recent studio note. “You start hearing rhythm in things that aren't rhythmic — a sign buzzing, gravel under boots. I came home and tuned every oscillator to those memories.”
“You start hearing rhythm in things that aren't rhythmic.”
From field recordings to finished tracks
Back in Berlin, the desert tapes were stretched, pitched and fed through modular filters until they sang. Two tracks keep the original recordings almost untouched — dawn wind under a slow arpeggio, and a night drive looped into a closing seven-minute piece.
The album arrives this autumn on vinyl and all streaming platforms. A short documentary filmed on the trip will premiere alongside the release.