WALL OF SOUND
“The thing about David [Jackson] is that he will research the stories behind the climbs. He wants to get inside the whole vibe of the track he is putting stuff to.”
Nick Jefferson
“It’s basically a load of limestone that’s rotting away and crumbling,” declares Nick Jefferson. He’s describing the Swiss monolith that inspired 75 minutes of new music on Kaprekar’s Constant’s third record, The Murder Wall. The album’s brutal title is the name frequently bestowed on the Eiger’s perilous north face and its songs focus on six attempts made over the decades by brave, but sometimes foolhardy and ill-equipped, mountaineers to scale it.
Epic storytelling is the hallmark of the musical collective, founded by multi-instrumentalists Jefferson and Al Nicholson, which is named after an obscure mathematical theory. The duo previously played together in 2017, followed two years later by , which featured Ian Anderson reciting a poem. Both are full of elaborate musical stories, covering places, people and history, and each contain a track that’s more than 20 minutes long. However, there’s been a deliberate shift towards shorter songs on .
