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KONSORTEN™
KONSORTEN™ | Wir und die anderen | 2005-10-02 |
 | | The directness of their first all-in-German album of KONSORTEN TM with
all of its attractive New Wave kitsch and its cautious but unmistakable
hardness is simply fantastic. After 10 years of rough electronic
clubmusic the Vienna quartet KONSORTEN TM led by songwriter Peter Zirbs
not only crosses the musical frontiers between electronic clubmusic and
energetic rock with their latest album "Wir und die anderen" ("We and
the others"), but we also experience Zirbs´ extremely personal and
direct approach in which he philosophises on the finality of all
things, propagates the benefits of a healthy self-image, ponders his
love which melts away in the truest sense of the word, or if he will
lose his girlfriend to a techno sound system.
In contrast to the electronic production excesses on their
previous releases "Disko 23" (automatique/EMI 2001), the radio hit
"lang auf" (fabrique 2002), "Trippin" (stereo alpine 2004) and the
compilation-album "Paradies der Tiere" (stereo alpine 2005) this
current longplayer is the result of intense jam sessions which were
then performed directly and completely in the studio.
This is thanks to a natural rawness of guitars, drums and
electronics along with the fact that "Wir und die anderen" was, thanks
to exceptional teamwork by Peter Zirbs, Harald Salaun, Charly Grafender
and Angel Rice, put together in just a few weeks. It all proves that
practically anything can be carved out of stone, including a communal
sense of fun which one can listen to. Yet, everything still revolves
around questions: "Who will take you home? Who will lift you when you
fall? Who will put down everything when you call him?" The whole album
winds up on a high note with KONSORTEN TM´s cover version of the Cars`
1980s hit "Drive".
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