«Gess' way of doing music needs time. It is kind of an infinite journey, a hard working process of permanent oscillation and balancing, in which things are changing again and again. Ultimately there is not 'the' song, but only dozens of versions. Indeed versions of versions. Thus every musical piece on this record reflects a choice. A choice that ultimately makes the one recording pressed onto this Vinyl the permanent one. You won’t hear the other ones. You’ll just be witness to a certain snapshot of the entire process. One that was chosen consciously out of the feeling of having arrived. An excerpt from a long journey, so to speak, which finally became part of this album. An excerpt that thus reflects the whole of a creative process in a refracted and at the same time condensed way. Visually, too, each album cover is a version of a version. No two look the same.

What Gess does is a veritable social undertaking. Her process of doing music isn’t a lonely at all. Many minds, hands and paws were involved in what you have in front of you. Particularly her musical companion Conolk, who sent over musical ideas from a distant place on the other side of the world and nevertheless connected so closely to what Gess had in mind. All of them joined in at a certain points in time, maybe added something, maybe just were there or somehow can be felt or heard in a detail of this record. You might not notice them, but they are there, held together by Gess' musical practice, somewhere between the manifold layers of sounds and tones which make up the musical universe of taimashoe.»

Tracklist:
Nola
Fox
Alles Guet
Now
Loop V2000
Knox
Back When It Rains
Spizzeli
Yes And No

Transparent Green 12" vinyl, special gatefold packaging, each record comes with a different die-cut artwork
Edition of 200

Recorded by Taimashoe and Conolk in New York, Zurich and Roggenburg 2018 – 2020
Produced by Conolk
Mixed by Marcel Gschwend
Graphic design by Carolina Cerbaro
Words by Anne Käthi Wehrli