Excerpts #3 is the 6th studio album by Tonto, a labour of love created and reworked across 4 years. The album follows the release of “Samplestretch Massacre #1” (Gross Diskos, 2023).
With each release, Tonto delves into unique recording techniques. During the sessions, the song structures are transformed by hours of spontaneous digressions, successively edited into a final shape.
The recording studio
itself is regarded as a creative tool, a sonic surgery table for sounds and structures. In these sessions, the sound of cymbals and drums is captured by custom contact microphones, heavily processed and blasted at
monstrous loudness into the recording room to harness the audio feedback between the drums and the speakers. The voice was amplified using a broken headphone modified into a gag mic.
Tonto doesn't write lyrics, instead expressing through an invented language of sounds, with track titles transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).