These tapes were recorded and edited by Jürgen Ploog on different flights between 1971-1976 on a portable tape-recorder. Like his literary fellow traveller William S. Burroughs, who made tape experiments a few years earlier, the German Beat writer Jürgen Ploog began experimenting with tape recorders in the 1970s. Ploog on his 33-year life as a transcontinental pilot: "My life was a series of interruptions both geographically (outwardly) and psychologically (state of mind) with exposure to different countries and the constant effects of jet lag". This 40-minute cut-up is the result of his experiments. Passages of Ploog’s spoken text mixed with field recordings, assembled, superimposed... scraps pulled out/torn, shifted and copied, questioned and documented. An alchemical experiment, a journey of sounds. "Cut-up as a drug that leads to a different relationship with language, just as a hallucinogen leads to an altered relation with the so-called reality. The result is a fundamental shift of meaning" (J.P.). A friend and literary associate of William S. Burroughs, Ploog is considered a father figure of the German-language literary underground. Ltd x 500 copies with printed inner sleeve.