Lucas Norer - Portbou FLAC

• Performer: Lucas Norer
• Title: Portbou
• Genre: Audiofiles
• Label: Not On Label
• Country: Austria
• Date of release: 18 Jan 2018
• Style: Field Recording, Sound Art
• FLAC size 2581 mb
• MP3 size: 1307 mb
• Record From Memory Stick, FLAC, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered

Lucas Norer Austria Not Label Field Recording Sound Art 2018

• Mixed By, Mastered By – Ollmann
• Producer, Recorded By, Layout, Design – Lucas Norer

Limited edition of 50 copies

Portbou is an acoustic portrait and documentary on the small Spanish border town of the same name. In reference to its history during World Word II as a significant stop for refugees on the so-called Lisbon Route Lucas Norer visited Portbou twice to record and produce the 6 sound pieces of this release.

Being forced to escape from Nazi terror a refugee path from Marseille via Portbou to Lisbon was established. As this illegal refugee path across the Pyrenees was the only way of leaving France and entering Spain, Portbou suddenly became important as a place where refugees could sneak through the border. This mode of escape was not without risk, however, as the tragic death of Walter Benjamin proves. Afraid of falling into the hands of the Gestapo and being sent back to France, he committed suicide in Portbou in 1940. In honour of Walter Benjamin and the many others who fled and died trying to escape, a monument was realised by Dani Karavan in 1994.

On his two trips along the Lisbon Route in 2013 and 2016, Lucas Norer documented his journey by means of field recordings. The recordings from Portbou resulted in the six sound pieces of this release. They present acoustic portraits of the town, Dani Karavan’s monument, and the historic escape path.