electronic music

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
artworks by RITA ACKERMANN

Africa, Mexico, Spain, France, music, architecture, and art: the multicultural, multidimensional, and multitalented KOUDLAM combines all these social energies in his electronic, apocalyptic compositions. The pulsating, symphonic intensity heard in his new album BENIDORM DREAM energetically conveys the ultra-urbanism of the Spanish Costa Blanca beach town, Benidorm, a pastiche agglomeration with the highest number of skyscrapers per capita in the world, one of which he locked himself into to compose these dramatically charged choruses to the future-present.

OLIVIER ZAHM — How long did it take you to make the new album, and who did you work with? 
KOUDLAM — It took me a little over two years. The last…