With his new record Tape Anthology Vol. 1 Christoph Berg kicks off an album series mainly fo- cusing on works based on Tape manipulation. At the same time it marks the inaugural release of his own imprint Monochrome Editions. Based on source material recorded in different parts of the world, the album forms a travelogue made with field recordings, occasionally accompanied by an array of instruments. Through an initially improvised approach to sources and his analogue assembly of the emerging recordings afterwards, Christoph has been methodically avoiding predictable conditions. his archive of Reels with field recordings became subject to meticulous organisation and arrangement — the tapes have been cut, manipulated, destroyed, fixed, and reshaped into a treasury of experiences. Tape Anthology Vol. 1 is less about destination than about the journey, it is a collection of collages of things, places, people and events and deliberately renounces any conclusion. everything stays in constant movement, away from, towards or around you — the compositions are dragging you in, but not releasing you in the expected or a familiar location. It is a captivating voyage through an ever-changing landscape that — through abstention of any predictability — is not only the core of improvisation, but a philosophical approach to both traveling and being in general.