Martin Ptak & Markus Mayerhofer 'Spitzbergen'
Markus Mayerhofer: pedal steel guitar, electronics
Martin Ptak: synthesizers, trombone, piano
& special guest: Lukas Lauermann: cello
„Spitzbergen“ – is tranquillity, solitude and reduction. The island in the arctic is used by the musicians as the screen on which their perception of tranquillity and solitude is projected. The reduced, transparent music is carried by a certain calm; a strange abstraction.