dreamdancer
I am a Fama Tuba
If you learn something as long term DL fan it is this: never ever expect that the next album will sound like one of the past releases. And this is definitely true for Indicator! The variety of musical expressions which can be found comparing the previous albums culminates here in a single one, sometimes almost in a single song. In Indicator DL are more dense and intense than ever.
So I am going to take the liberty to let you know what this album is doing to me (and if you like, please let me know what it does to you, too ; ).
Indicator has as many facets as the iridescent eye of an insect. Whenever I try to focus on a single part, something in the corner of my eye (or better: at the edge of my ear) distracts me. And hypnotized by the glance I can only surrender. Tossed around by electronic waves I feel a presence that carries me, sometimes soft, sometimes strong, sometimes distant, and sometimes close: a guiding voice.
At the beginning this voice leads through an autumn song full of regret but still my soul is floating in its soft tenderness.
Cold you felt
After One night I wake up by a soft and damped synthesizer and the syncopic rhythm of who'll save your world kicks me out of this drifting state.
like a wooden doll went through his hell
Then the voice tells the story about a love that faded in the past. This tale is embedded in synthesizer sounds full of melancholic affection. The bridge hits with a stronger beat only to give way to quiet chorus leaving me behind.
but I found you ran away with you
Alone, breathless with a beseeching voice humming all around, electronic nails are hammered into the head by a fractured beat until the remnants of my ego are torn into pieces in Immigrant. Who am I?
talked to you, saved you too
An accusatory voice, while I am all electrified by the music full of tension, full of hope, ready to go, to join in Europe. But where am I?
day by day
Lost along the road, drifting without care, without time, without direction, confused by spinning strings. But I move on and on as if attracted by the harp of a fairy queen. Without words I get trapped in her realm, unable to stop dancing the last dance.
more veils disappeared and turned to grey
Only to be shaken by a voice full of anger in six o'clock. Rage, which is barely suppressed at the beginning, turns openly on the oppressor. Merciless beats, contorted tunes hiss a question: Why are you?
fell to ashes took away your fears
Haunted by nightmares even during the day the chorus in Go away bad dreams is like spell to chase them away. The melody appears as if from a musical clock. This is really eerie, because with the sleep the ghosts and demons will come to torture the desperate soul. In the end the spell is not strong enough to overcome the evil. And also the singing heart on your stage again cannot take away the shiver running down my spine.
Go away, go away, go away! x_x
smiles came back, no more tears
Lost memories are brought back in the old man is dead. With all the samples scattered throughout the song it feels like looking at an old photo album with yellowed silver bromide pictures. They trigger vivid recollections almost as real as if one traveled back in time: A nostalgic bed time story told for a small boy. When am I?
Leave behind dusty backyards
Only the 2nd CD of the limited edition provides the way back - back in time and back to myself:
come with me come with me
Young 2010 seems to be dedicated to the current youth. It is hopeful but with enough pushing anger so that this generation may find the strength to fight for a better world though strained by the demands of the society and by the economic system.
for you and me
Spring will come as a healing spell. The beat underneath the hook (can you call this a "line"?) makes it a really intriguing invocation as if in a rite of spring. At the end of this song (which is my favorite), Ernst's drums go completely crazy, even brute. (And I cannot help myself visualizing Ernst playing the drums like Animal sorrysorrysorry)
for heaven's sake
Alabama is for me the song that concludes the album, since the remix of Gone and the acoustic versions of One night, Who'll save your world, and A fish called prince are more like a gift to the fans. A very welcome one, of course! Alabama refers to the Birmingham bombing in 1963, where four young girls were killed in a Baptist church. Martin Luther King gave a speech at the funeral giving an important impulse to the civil rights movement. Dedicated to John Coltrane, who put this event to music (e.g. see here) only a few months later, only simple chords are used here, like the echo of a church hymn or of a gospel song. :ympray: And such this stirring and quite disturbing album finally finds a very peaceful ending.
Blue heart (how intrusive can a song be?)
At the end of the day, one can clearly see/hear how much effort Alexander and Ernst put into this project. The songs differ so much in structure, in harmony, in rhythm and in lyrics that each one basically deserves an own thread. The long waiting was definitely worth while! :-bd
Thank you, guys, really: thx a lot!
So I am going to take the liberty to let you know what this album is doing to me (and if you like, please let me know what it does to you, too ; ).
Indicator has as many facets as the iridescent eye of an insect. Whenever I try to focus on a single part, something in the corner of my eye (or better: at the edge of my ear) distracts me. And hypnotized by the glance I can only surrender. Tossed around by electronic waves I feel a presence that carries me, sometimes soft, sometimes strong, sometimes distant, and sometimes close: a guiding voice.
At the beginning this voice leads through an autumn song full of regret but still my soul is floating in its soft tenderness.
Cold you felt
After One night I wake up by a soft and damped synthesizer and the syncopic rhythm of who'll save your world kicks me out of this drifting state.
like a wooden doll went through his hell
Then the voice tells the story about a love that faded in the past. This tale is embedded in synthesizer sounds full of melancholic affection. The bridge hits with a stronger beat only to give way to quiet chorus leaving me behind.
but I found you ran away with you
Alone, breathless with a beseeching voice humming all around, electronic nails are hammered into the head by a fractured beat until the remnants of my ego are torn into pieces in Immigrant. Who am I?
talked to you, saved you too
An accusatory voice, while I am all electrified by the music full of tension, full of hope, ready to go, to join in Europe. But where am I?
day by day
Lost along the road, drifting without care, without time, without direction, confused by spinning strings. But I move on and on as if attracted by the harp of a fairy queen. Without words I get trapped in her realm, unable to stop dancing the last dance.
more veils disappeared and turned to grey
Only to be shaken by a voice full of anger in six o'clock. Rage, which is barely suppressed at the beginning, turns openly on the oppressor. Merciless beats, contorted tunes hiss a question: Why are you?
fell to ashes took away your fears
Haunted by nightmares even during the day the chorus in Go away bad dreams is like spell to chase them away. The melody appears as if from a musical clock. This is really eerie, because with the sleep the ghosts and demons will come to torture the desperate soul. In the end the spell is not strong enough to overcome the evil. And also the singing heart on your stage again cannot take away the shiver running down my spine.
Go away, go away, go away! x_x
smiles came back, no more tears
Lost memories are brought back in the old man is dead. With all the samples scattered throughout the song it feels like looking at an old photo album with yellowed silver bromide pictures. They trigger vivid recollections almost as real as if one traveled back in time: A nostalgic bed time story told for a small boy. When am I?
Leave behind dusty backyards
Only the 2nd CD of the limited edition provides the way back - back in time and back to myself:
come with me come with me
Young 2010 seems to be dedicated to the current youth. It is hopeful but with enough pushing anger so that this generation may find the strength to fight for a better world though strained by the demands of the society and by the economic system.
for you and me
Spring will come as a healing spell. The beat underneath the hook (can you call this a "line"?) makes it a really intriguing invocation as if in a rite of spring. At the end of this song (which is my favorite), Ernst's drums go completely crazy, even brute. (And I cannot help myself visualizing Ernst playing the drums like Animal sorrysorrysorry)
for heaven's sake
Alabama is for me the song that concludes the album, since the remix of Gone and the acoustic versions of One night, Who'll save your world, and A fish called prince are more like a gift to the fans. A very welcome one, of course! Alabama refers to the Birmingham bombing in 1963, where four young girls were killed in a Baptist church. Martin Luther King gave a speech at the funeral giving an important impulse to the civil rights movement. Dedicated to John Coltrane, who put this event to music (e.g. see here) only a few months later, only simple chords are used here, like the echo of a church hymn or of a gospel song. :ympray: And such this stirring and quite disturbing album finally finds a very peaceful ending.
Blue heart (how intrusive can a song be?)
At the end of the day, one can clearly see/hear how much effort Alexander and Ernst put into this project. The songs differ so much in structure, in harmony, in rhythm and in lyrics that each one basically deserves an own thread. The long waiting was definitely worth while! :-bd
Thank you, guys, really: thx a lot!