DESPAIRATION „Music for the night”

Duration:18 songs – nearly 80 Min


Good songs: Are you kidding?? Hm, maybe the first parts of the title track “Music for the night”
Website: www.despairation.de
www.mykingdommusic.net
Contact: info@wintersolitude.de

Difficult, difficult… What shall I think about that here? Orchestral gothic dark is what the product information tells me about this rotating CD of the Southern Germans. Yes, DESPAIRATION try to be gothic – somehow…

This human is not able to sing, but anyway this something is catching me. Is it the fascination of the unknown? No, it is the inconceivability that someone is singing that emotionless like Sascha Blach, who sometimes also copies (at least well) RIGHT SAID FRED´s Richard Fairbrass! This feeling doesn´t go away that this is just a project of a few people (music students??), who have wanted to have a bit fun and said: „Let´s do something different, something really good, that nobody has the heart to do, no mainstream and also something that cannot be put in a special genre!“ This point goes out to you,

DESPAIRATION! The extraordinary thing is yours!
So: Anybody who wants to have an experience with the mixery of a marihuana trip, an impressing free jazz session and a breeze of heavy metal (the guitar solos of Martin F. Jungkunz are great!). Here you are, this way! Ah yes, somehow there is a little bit techno in it… J
Here is a thing for everyone: Scratching, violin, cello, bassoon, flute, trumpet… Yes, even the Australian Didgeridoo has its part in the scene!

This nearly 80 minute melancholic, sad concept album is the fourth CD of the Germans that partly unfortunately often is boring (particularly with the last songs like „Zeitgeist“ and „April mourning“ or also „Nuit en enfer“. Were you running out of drugs? Sorry… ;-)).
I guess, I am not sad enough to understand the depths of gothic metal 😉

P. S.: No, actually I like gothic metal, as long as it IS gothic! J

note: 3/10

Tracklist

Music for the night
Drift
Phantastronaut
River of perdition
Underground Poetry
Madrigal
L´avion ivre
Asteroid YB5
Firebird
Moondrawn awakening
Proteus
Zeitgeist
April mourning
Songs of the nightingale
Nuit en enfer
Colourado mindtrip
Space sound park
Penelope

Line-up

Sascha Blach – voice
Martin F. Jungkunz – guitars, programming, keyboards
Christian Beyer – piano, synthesizer
Christoph Grünert – bass
Jens Reinhold – drums