Ein Interview mit Burn the Christmastree
Osterdienstag in Willingen im Sauerland: Vier Fünftel von Burn the Christmastree dopen sich mit einigen Bechern kalten Kaffees für ihre bevorstehende Show in der Evangelischen Kirche. Der fünfte Mann hängt noch auf der Autobahn fest, wo der Kaffee vermutlich wärmer ist. Hinter dem schnodderigen Namen Burn the Christmastree verbirgt sich eine junge Ska-Punk-Band aus Sachsen. Die beiden Trompeter Ruben und Gerd sowie Schlagzeuger Tim und Gitarrist Daniel beantworten mir ein paar Fragen. Im Gespräch wird mir schnell klar: Was diese Jungs zu bieten haben, wäre als „Musik mit Botschaft“ nur unzureichend beschrieben. Eigentlich handelt es sich vielmehr um „Botschaft mit Musik“.
Freitag, 27. April 2012
Montag, 23. April 2012
Travel to the Past
(deutsche Version unten)
What's over is over. But still, the past is not simply gone just because nobody is able to turn back the clock. Who keeps the eyes – or, more precisely: the ears – open can still encounter things that stem from the past, even in our present. Like, for example, the nice Complete-Works-Edition of uniSEF that has been released by Thumper Punk Records lately.
Donnerstag, 5. April 2012
Jesus
Ostern steht vor der Tür. Während viele ja meinen, dass dieses Fest gefeiert wird, weil da mal irgend so’n Hase gestorben ist, wissen wir Schlaubies natürlich, dass es an Ostern um Jesus geht. Vor langer Zeit gab es mal ein schmissiges und österliches Lied über Jesus, das auch heute noch in manchen Gesangbüchern zu finden ist, und das ging so:
Welch ein Freund ist unser Jesus,
o wie hoch ist er erhöht!
Er hat uns mit Gott versöhnet
und vertritt uns im Gebet.
Freitag, 23. März 2012
Was lange währt
wird endlich gut. Denn ihr Debut-Album hatten Front 77 ja bereits seit Monaten angekündigt. Jetzt ist es so weit: Anfang März ist das Erstlingswerk „Soli Deo Gloria“ der Band aus Aue erschienen. Und das Warten hat sich gelohnt. Endlich gibt es den altbekannten Song „Perestroika“, sowie andere Hits auch für die heimische Stereoanlage! Das Ergebnis kann sich hören lassen: Die Melodien gehen wunderbar ins Ohr, die Vocals werden Oi-mäßig gegröhlt, und die Kunst des abrupten Liedschlusses haben Front 77 perfektioniert.Freitag, 16. März 2012
Mixed Feelings
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It has not very often been as difficult for me to write a review as today. Because in terms of music and melodies the record „Helpless but not Hopeless“ by California's The Way is to my taste really the coolest release during the last months. Finally a Christian band whose sound is fit to hold a candle to Bad Religion! I am honestly taken with the high amount of fun factor that The Way are arousing here. For this I give them an A+.
It has not very often been as difficult for me to write a review as today. Because in terms of music and melodies the record „Helpless but not Hopeless“ by California's The Way is to my taste really the coolest release during the last months. Finally a Christian band whose sound is fit to hold a candle to Bad Religion! I am honestly taken with the high amount of fun factor that The Way are arousing here. For this I give them an A+.Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012
Watch out!
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The times are definitely gone when Hardcore still sounded like a herd of madcap gorillas treating their guitars and drums with cudgels. To a growing degree bands are incorporating gentle and sensitive parts into their music. Some call this Post-Core, others term it Emotional Hardcore. However. - At any rate this results in some sort of music that fuses the fury of New School Hardcore with the beauty and tragedy of human life. During the past months Blood and Ink Records have released several records of bands that bustle at this boundary line between inspection and bluster. With the EP „Signs of the Time“ by the band With Increase they have lately put out an oeuvre that carries the development to its peak. Because on „Signs of the Time“ the contemplative parts even outweigh the explosive ones.
The times are definitely gone when Hardcore still sounded like a herd of madcap gorillas treating their guitars and drums with cudgels. To a growing degree bands are incorporating gentle and sensitive parts into their music. Some call this Post-Core, others term it Emotional Hardcore. However. - At any rate this results in some sort of music that fuses the fury of New School Hardcore with the beauty and tragedy of human life. During the past months Blood and Ink Records have released several records of bands that bustle at this boundary line between inspection and bluster. With the EP „Signs of the Time“ by the band With Increase they have lately put out an oeuvre that carries the development to its peak. Because on „Signs of the Time“ the contemplative parts even outweigh the explosive ones.Freitag, 3. Februar 2012
On the Nature of Faith
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Which is the most important virtue in Punk Rock? Loudness? - That one is important for sure. Provocation? - Not to be scoffed at, too. The courage to express one's own opinion? Definitely, that is also very essential. But what about simplicity? Simplicity must be listed at this place on all accounts. Because Punk and musical virtuosity do not go together very well. Otherwise, what you get is New School Hardcore. Simplicity is not a bad thing. Far from it! What Punk Rock needs is this certain ounce of ingeniousness to play music which is simple and intoxicating at the very same moment. This sort of an ingenious ounce can be found in the music of the Kings Kids sure enough. They play Street Punk without frills that often sounds like Rancid and sometimes a bit like the Misfits. By abstaining from complicated solos and tricky rhythms the Kings Kids have created the album „Set Sail and Seek“ which is full of earworms who get stuck in your auditory canal until you bait them out again by offering them an extra large pizza. That is what I call successful songwriting. Punk Rock that is fun precisely because it is not overcharged.
Which is the most important virtue in Punk Rock? Loudness? - That one is important for sure. Provocation? - Not to be scoffed at, too. The courage to express one's own opinion? Definitely, that is also very essential. But what about simplicity? Simplicity must be listed at this place on all accounts. Because Punk and musical virtuosity do not go together very well. Otherwise, what you get is New School Hardcore. Simplicity is not a bad thing. Far from it! What Punk Rock needs is this certain ounce of ingeniousness to play music which is simple and intoxicating at the very same moment. This sort of an ingenious ounce can be found in the music of the Kings Kids sure enough. They play Street Punk without frills that often sounds like Rancid and sometimes a bit like the Misfits. By abstaining from complicated solos and tricky rhythms the Kings Kids have created the album „Set Sail and Seek“ which is full of earworms who get stuck in your auditory canal until you bait them out again by offering them an extra large pizza. That is what I call successful songwriting. Punk Rock that is fun precisely because it is not overcharged.Freitag, 20. Januar 2012
Great Stories
An interview with Jimmy Sisco
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At the end of the last year Absolved have released an EP of nicely noisy old school music. By now this piece of solid workmanship is available as a combined download with the band's debut album from Thumper Punk Records. I have chatted a bit with singer Jimmy Sisco by email about the world and his brother.
(deutsche Version unten)
At the end of the last year Absolved have released an EP of nicely noisy old school music. By now this piece of solid workmanship is available as a combined download with the band's debut album from Thumper Punk Records. I have chatted a bit with singer Jimmy Sisco by email about the world and his brother.Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012
Enzyklopädie der christlichen Punkmusik, Teil 3
Inzwischen hat er schon ein paar Wochen auf dem Buckel, verliert aber trotzdem nichts von seinem Elan. Gemeint ist „Punk Never Dies, Vol. 1“, der kostenlose Sampler aus dem Hause Indie Vision Music. Auf der Compilation tummelt sich alles, was in der christlichen Punkmusik Rang und Namen hat. Oder gerade im Begriff ist, berüchtigt zu werden. Neben solchen Klassikern wie Headnoise und Value Pac sind auch einige jüngere Bands auf dem Sampler vertreten, die es sich zu entdecken lohnt.Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
Jahresrückblick
(English version below)
„Die Jugendlichen von heute haben schlechte Manieren und verachten die Autorität. Sie widersprechen ihren Eltern, legen die Beine übereinander und tyrannisieren ihre Lehrer.“ - Dieser Ausspruch wird schon seit längerer Zeit dem guten alten Philosophen Sokrates in die Schuhe geschoben. Allerdings wird nicht überliefert, ob die Feststellung als Kritik oder nicht vielleicht doch als Kompliment verstanden werden will.
„Die Jugendlichen von heute haben schlechte Manieren und verachten die Autorität. Sie widersprechen ihren Eltern, legen die Beine übereinander und tyrannisieren ihre Lehrer.“ - Dieser Ausspruch wird schon seit längerer Zeit dem guten alten Philosophen Sokrates in die Schuhe geschoben. Allerdings wird nicht überliefert, ob die Feststellung als Kritik oder nicht vielleicht doch als Kompliment verstanden werden will.
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