Portrait: Fotos Modular Illumination

»I didn‘t understand for a long time that it‘s difficult to implement electronic elements when you write songs with many chords.«

Beat/ „Auf zur Illumination!“is your second album in the last ten years. Are you a band that deliberately takes a lot of time?

Tom/ We had a long “hibernation” between the third and fourth album (“Porzellan” from 2010 and “Kids” from 2017 - note by the author). At that time, I spent seven years studying synthesizers and modular synthesis. I started producing and got used to electronic music - as a listener and a musician. But it took longer than I thought. Suddenly five years were over and when I had written the album “Kids”, but the rest of the band and the producer at the time, Tobias Siebert, were busy with other projects. But this time it went faster again, because it was only two and a half years and I hope that there will be more „flow“again in the future.

Beat/ „Auf zur Illumination!“took its course during the first lockdown. From that point of view you were indeed very quick this time.

Yes, we‘ve only been that fast on the very first album so far. This was