Twelve Years of Nihilism

The title of Ilir Lluka's new digital album "Twelve Years of Nihilism" refers to his period of creativity and musical productivity. The artist considers himself a realist but agrees that his feeling of pessimism about mankind can somehow come close to the semantic concept of the nihilist when regarding it from the object of inspiration point of view. The four tracks of the album play an obscure soundtrack for moods that are at times suffering but dilated over time as in a precise perseverance in philosophical reflections that perhaps will never have a definitive solution and answer.
"Twelve Years of Nihilism" was recorded entirely in a single day. Usually the production of my albums takes a lot of time as I am used to working very slowly, little by little it usually takes at least six months to a year, some of my works have been developed during 2-3 years or even more, while for this one I wanted to break the cycle and make something different, something raw without much layering abstractional complications. Although I am not an instrumentalist, nor am I a big fan of analogue synthesizers for my own music, I had the chance to experiment a bit with a Nord Modular G2 synthesizer and an electric guitar and I decided to record everything as it was being improvised directly from the mixer into a Handy Zoom Recorder and then cut, recut & edited so that only the best parts were to be used as the end result.