Audiac， a duo， located in Tübingen and Hamburg， made up of Alexander Wiemer van Veen and Niklas David， promise their listeners an enormous amount. Each song is a journey into sound， each strophe - a sonic adventure， each refrain - dreamlike. Their debut album of 14 years ago “Thank You for Not Discussing the Outside World” earned the band a stable ranking on rateyourmusic.com’s renowned list. Go to Trip-Hop where their listeners’ choice stoutly maintains Audiac between Portishead and Massive Attack. 14 years later， Audiac are bathing in sound again， with their second album， produced again by Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust.
In this manner， the complex arrangements refer back to a sensitive and eclectic musical taste of which both Audiac members are possessed. In the Faust studio in Scheer， Alexander Wiemer van Veen recorded the final vocal corrections， bringing to an end an incredible 14 years of production time. The result is “So Waltz” – an absurd wordplay - ten musical diamonds that grow with each listening. The choruses， piano scores， horn phrases， distorted organ melodies， not least Alexander van Veen’s sententious voice， all combine -thanks to Hans- Joachim Irmler’s magic fingers in the final and most accomplished stereo mix - to a far greater whole. With its roots in the German Romantic Lied， chansons， theatre music traditions and the burlesque， it is surely only a matter of time for Audiac to be discovered， not only by music lovers， but by the film world - Audiac’s music is filmic and its songs shamanic.