Bitter Moon keeps going. Over the last few years the ominous duo delighted us repeatedly with unexpected recordings. We released record after record. And still we find in every new piece what has fascinated us from the beginning. A certain mystery, a refusal to take the easy way. This music drifts idiosyncratically from crystal-clear songs to rhythm and synthesizer driven sound spheres only to culminate in eccentric musical patterns that almost fall apart in their wildest moments, only to get back on track just in time. Bitter Moon is veritable audio-cinema. Not simply a soundtrack to accompany a movie, but a story in itself. In «The World Above» we embark on another journey full of listening pleasure, irritations and suspense. And still it is hard to grasp what these two musicians actually do. While experiencing the musical pieces of this concept album -  somewhere between songs and sound experiments - complex atmospheres evolve and a wide array of subtle emotions find their way through our ears right to our imagination.

The World Above is Bitter Moon’s first Long Player. Prompted by a chance encounter with New German Cinema, the concept album was envisioned in Bitter Moon’s winter hideout in the Swiss Italian Alps.

The bare compositions were then taken to the hills of Lisbon, the city in which Dutch multi instrumentalist Jacco Gardner was living and had located his recording studio. Somnium had just come out of the pressing plant, Gardner’s visionary move towards dreamy and cosmic explorations of the visual nature of sound was the reason why Bitter Moon had contemplated a collaboration in the first place.

Together, armed with magnetic tape, a dying Optigan and a handful of analogue synths, they patiently waited for the narrative to unfold.

All percussions were performed by Nic Mauskovic, mastering courtesy of Simon Heyworth (Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno)

Tracklist:
Zenos Paradox
Images
Spurlos
Eva
Formlos
The World Above
Gloria
Still Stiller
Kontaktseinheit

black 12" vinyl
Edition of 200