WALL OF SOUND

Folk prog collective Kaprekar’s Constant scale new heights on their third album The Murder Wall, telling the stories of success and failure conquering the north face of Europe’s most forbidding mountain, the Eiger. The collective’s founders Nick Jefferson, Al Nicholson and Mike Westergaard explain how they drew their inspiration for the album among the ropes and ice picks.

Alison Reijman

“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…

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