Alpen is an electronic outfit from Sydney headed by Daniel Jumpertz and aided by some friends. Their track 'A Meditation on Flight', released on the excellent New Weird Australia Vol. 4, isn't a very new track, but is a good (free!) introduction to their sounds. The song creates suspense and mystery through scattered riffs like a frenetic drum beat, some surprisingly spooky piano, here-and-there electronic sounds, and a kind of distressed guitar that belongs at a wild west duel-to-the-death. Overall: anxious. The anxiety of flight? Perhaps. Check them out.



A Meditation on Flight
Compilation: New Weird Australia Vol. 4
Alpen (Myspace)