By The Waterhole & Stephan Meidell - three

Finally Eva Pfitzenmaier's third album with By The Waterhole is ready. The result is catching ear candy from an eclectic sound artist.

Right after Eva Pfitzenmaier gave birth to her first child in 2016, a new pregnancy began: the new album with By The Waterhole. However, the incubation period turned out to be exceptionally long. Creativity paired up with procrastination instead of productivity. Eventually the hurdle had grown so tall that Eva needed some help getting the new record on its way. Luckily deadlines and inspiring colleagues/partners are there to do exactly that: her husband, musician and composer Stephan Meidell, offered to join her in the studio for a two-day impro session with a setup of different synth modules and many colourful cables. The premise: no limits, no rules, no expectations. These recordings became the basis for Pfitzenmaier's third album with By The Waterhole. The baby took her time, but the result is impressive. Phonetic poetry tickles both your ears and your fantasy. Join us at the waterhole and let us rehydrate you with suggestive rhythms, insisting electronical soundscapes, and word art.

German-Norwegian vocalist, composer, performer and writer Eva Pfitzenmaier, based in Bergen, Norway, works with a variety of projects and across artistic disciplines.
Her music draws inspiration from contemporary, electronic and popular music, as well as different types of folkloristic music. With improvisation as a main tool, Eva explores how different artistic expressions can be combined in order to create a holisitc piece or performance, and in her work she tries to find those short moments of instability and vulnerability which reflect the human condition.
By The Waterhole is her solo project, and usually it is a one-woman-band in which the vocalist accompanies herself with processed keyboard, a loop station and effect pedals, but on the comprehensive double album three, she is joined by musical adventurer Stephan Meidell on modular synthesizer, and together they take the listener on a cinematic musical journey through stretched out electronical soundscapes, past pulsating, analogue intermezzi.
three is a concept album about the human existence – searingly timely and simultaneously floatingly timeless.