tracklist
1.
Kautz (5:23)
2.
Salamander (4:44)
3.
Moos (Live) (6:46)
4.
Myzel (6:05)
5.
Wurzel (Live) (5:40)
6.
Aue (Live) (6:01)
7.
Kafer (5:21)
8.
Fichte (Live) (4:23)
9.
Eichelhaher (4:55)
description
Wald begins immediately, ends abruptly, and is divided into three acts over three tracks. It is the first studio album under Stefan Betke's Pole moniker for eight years - not counting the three 12" EPs under the title Waldgeschichten (released in 2011/2012 and which were something like preliminary studies for this new album). Eight years is half an eternity in the digital age - yet the pieces on Wald seem timeless, or to have fallen from time. Stefan Betke: "After Steingarten I was on tour for two years. At the same time, Barbara Preisinger and I set up our record label scape. Those were two hindering circumstances that were not exactly conducive to a creative restart.
