Windy & Carl
Drawing of Sound

Windy & Carl write music that is deeply rooted in the earth element, although the use of drones, hyper-distortions, and overdubs would easily classify them as late epigones of a space music updated to the '90s. It's true, the krautrock influences are perhaps significant, with elongated timings, metaphysical anxiety, electronic adjustments, but the true reference is the white masses, the divine liturgies of Popol Vuh. However, while the exploration of cosmic space was a quest for the divine, a reconnaissance to touch divinity that resulted in transcendence rooted in the subject (God is within us), Windy & Carl seem to exclude eschatological drifts for an animistic immanence, with nature and man - a natural product that celebrates a praise to the earth as a divine being.

The long tracks on the album are sonic translations of the present, almost recordings of the sound of specific places on earth. Concerts of trees, waters, cities, skies are not rituals of a visionary shamanism shaken by spasms where the divinity appears terrible and perpetually mystifying, which, by the way, does not belong to the duo, but worshipful feasts where if there is any disturbance, it is lulled by the background pulse of the earth-life. The tragic vision of the becoming of everything is softened in the permanence of nature's laws. There is a strong suspicion that the rift between man and nature is irreconcilable; in "You", where the human voice is predominant, one experiences the most oblique, almost sinister atmospheres, where a glimmer of consciousness persists, the two seem to tell us, it is almost implicit the sense of the ephemeral, of instability. If one relies on the sonic frescoes, however, they instill not so much a sense of quiet but rather a penetration of the human psyche into the meshes of nature, a participation in infinite immanence.

With this album, Windy & Carl wanted to recover the panicky elements inherent in man by placing the perishable human experience within the indestructible solidity of the cosmos, elevating it to the rank of an indispensable manifestation of the divine, the greater humanity is, the more transient it becomes.