I am yours and you are mine; Wir tauschen uns aus.

Written and recordet by Matthias Peyker
Mastered by Florian Richling at Highhat Studio
Artwork by Matthias Peyker, Agnieszka Baginska
Video by Matthias Peyker, Christoph Schwarz

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Movement 1 (Love As Passion) is the first recorded output from A Thousand Fuegos since his 2012 album The Treachery Of Things, which, in contrast to its folky predecessors, was laced with traces of various electronic music epochs. Movement 1 continues this evolution and heralds an upcoming album of similar style. A Thousand Fuegos used the time since TTOT to refine his musical vocabulary, somewhere between sound-experiment and club-culture, but without losing pop-appeal. Movement 1 plays with identities, in form and content; the song is hard to pigeonhole, the video distorts perception with its countless picture-in-picture montages.

“Even though technology allows creating precise images of reality, the meaning of the single image gets lost in the blur of their multitude. Do I still exist or am I already replaced? Somebody lives my life, and it’s not me. I am yours and you are mine.”

 

A Thousand Fuegos is the music alias of artist Matthias Peyker. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna he now works multidisciplinary with emphasis on design, video and music, analogue and digital. In 2006 A Thousand Fuegos debuted with an EP followed by the full length albums Like Big Black Clouds Through Burning Eyes 2007 and A Thousand Fuegos 2008, recorded predominantly with traditional musical instruments and guest musicians. The 7” Three Gorges In A Cuckoo’s Egg (2010) and the tape-release A Thousand Fuegos In “The Great Pretender“ (2011) bore a new sound through experimentation with electronic means of production. The Treachery Of Things, released 2012 on Seayou Records, was the third album and fully realised the electronic shift. In 2014 A Thousand Fuegos also began composing for film. A new full length album is scheduled for May 2016.