This music was originally an ambient soundtrack for an art exhibition by the german painter Karmers about the sinking of a british battleship - HMS Hood during Worl War II.
The first exhibition took place in London,May 2002 and a second one 2 years later in Hamburg,Germany.

The exhibition rooms were only dimly lit and the visitors were surrounded by these sounds. Being a chronology, the exhibition started with pictures of imaginery ship crew members at leisure in peaceful times - but then developing into the brutality of war and finally leading to the desaster and the loss of so many sailors.

On the left you can see some of the pictures. Some more can be seen here.

The recordings were mostly done with electric guitar and a Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer going into a "Paradis" looping device with some effects. On the track "Their Last Great Sacrifice" all sounds were done with an acoustic guitar, multi-layered in the looper.

The original soundtrack was quite long (more than 2 hours) and I decided to edit the tracks before releasing them as a download. But, like so often, when I start working on music from past times, I ended up re-arranging and re-mixing them.

So here´s now the final result, which is actually closer to a chronological soundtrack than the original version.