Balcony's Paradise - Spot the Difference
Bretford
- 1hollow diary
- 2time after time
- 3weird ways
- 4spot the difference
- 5fishing next to the lilies
- 6alone with the crowd
- 7silly girl
- 8but of course
- 9love longing
- 10aftermoon
- 11one of these nights
- 12college knowledge
- 13outro
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Open edition
Spot the Difference opens a new chapter in the Balcony's Paradise project – a subtly nuanced album, a journey into chiaroscuro.
New to Lorenz O'tool's musical universe is the idea of the narrative collage track – a miniature world of field recordings, dripping sounds, clockwork and fragments of voices. Like an inner film, a different time opens up here, beyond the present and beyond logic. Right from the first track, hollow diary, we are led into a timeless sound space full of echoes, resonances, spherical guitars and mysterious textures.
An escape – from the overload of reality and the heart. Feelings dissolve in this cave world and reset themselves. What appears complex, contradictory and fragile on the outside gains clarity and lightness here.
Two voices seem to meet in this acoustic refuge – hesitant at first, then almost symbiotic. Time loses its grip. The outside world becomes unimportant. It is a form of salvation, so radical that the thought of returning no longer plays a role.
voc git prod Lorenz O'tool
drums Jeremy Tayler and Benjamin Zimmermann
sax Philipp Gropper
ambiance Sigourney D. Orphée
master Max Power, Norman Nitzsche
lacquer cut by Tobias Lill, Lathesville Berlin
"weird ways" by Jeff Clarke, "alone with the crowd" and "but of course" by M.O.T.O., "silly girl" by Television Personalities
silkscreen by Julian Barfknecht
released October 17, 2025
New to Lorenz O'tool's musical universe is the idea of the narrative collage track – a miniature world of field recordings, dripping sounds, clockwork and fragments of voices. Like an inner film, a different time opens up here, beyond the present and beyond logic. Right from the first track, hollow diary, we are led into a timeless sound space full of echoes, resonances, spherical guitars and mysterious textures.
An escape – from the overload of reality and the heart. Feelings dissolve in this cave world and reset themselves. What appears complex, contradictory and fragile on the outside gains clarity and lightness here.
Two voices seem to meet in this acoustic refuge – hesitant at first, then almost symbiotic. Time loses its grip. The outside world becomes unimportant. It is a form of salvation, so radical that the thought of returning no longer plays a role.
voc git prod Lorenz O'tool
drums Jeremy Tayler and Benjamin Zimmermann
sax Philipp Gropper
ambiance Sigourney D. Orphée
master Max Power, Norman Nitzsche
lacquer cut by Tobias Lill, Lathesville Berlin
"weird ways" by Jeff Clarke, "alone with the crowd" and "but of course" by M.O.T.O., "silly girl" by Television Personalities
silkscreen by Julian Barfknecht
released October 17, 2025
