"...I had worked with Akis Boyatzis and his band Sigmatropic on a project in the Spring of 2001 in his home country of Greece, on an amazing album called “Sixteen Haiku and Other Stories.” An interesting and ambitious project involving some 18 vocalists from all over Europe and the US (a veritable who’s who of the independent music scene) doing the poetry of Nobel Laureate George Seferis to the music that Akis created for these words. Under Akis’ vision this project had true life; smart, sophisticated, astonishing music. This is where the seed was planted we can say. Three years later, near the end of a European Walkabouts tour, when I was asked to come back to Athens to perform live with Sigmatropic, I jumped at the chance. I should also mention here a Seattle friend, Michael Willet, who was on tour helping us with the backline, and I had been working on songs together prior to The Walkabouts tour and lyrics we came up with were just right for where I saw a new album going. Michael and I flew to Athens in November and within a week we had given Akis some lyrics to wrap some music around and see where things might go. Needless to say when, after returning to Seattle, we received a CD in the mail we knew we were going to love working with Akis...
As far as the process of recording goes, many of the tracks for these songs were recorded by me with some of my best friends and favorite musicians in the studio here in my house. Michael and I would invite someone over and knock ideas or lyrics or some guitar chords around and just let things flow from there. Much of the vision for this expanding project was germinated here. We would send some of this on to Akis in Athens where he would add his ideas and touches and record some with Sigmatropic in his own home-based studio. And then send it back. This way, by the time we loaded up all the gear and mics and guitars on the plane for Athens in the Spring of 2004 we all were really close to the pl.......
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Pierwszy całkowicie solowy album wokalistki i gitarzystki jednego z najważniejszych zespołów amerykańskiego alternatywnego rocka: THE WALKABOUTS. Płyta został nagrana w Atenach z towarzyszeniem 18 muzyków z Grecji, Europy i Ameryki. Pełna kolorów, różnorodna i często zaskakująco eksperymentalna. Po tym, gdy Chris Eckman, były małżonek i wciąz jeszcze muzyczny partner w Walkabouts i duecie Chris & Carla, nagrał swój drugi solowy album, wydawało się więcej niż pewne, że Carla również spróbuje sił w projekcie solowym. Obojetnie, czy otwierający album "Prelagic", gdzie najbardziej chyba słychać echa The Walkabouts, mocno groovujący "Dust As We" czy "Temperature Dream Thinking Bed" z upiornymi samplami, Torgerson stworzyła bardzo przekonujące piosenki. W "Dreh es um" (piosence śpiewanej po niemiecku!!!) bardzo dziwne zdania niemieckie zderzają się z orientalnymi i bluesowymi dźwiękami. Bogate aranżacje z jej doskonałym wyczuciem wyważania elementów syntetycznych i akustycznych są odważnym eksperymentem, który wyróżnia ten album spośród zwykłych, tradycyjnych, w rockowym kontekście utrzymanych płyt tzw. "songwritingu"