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Wolfsheim - No Happy View

Wolfsheim - No Happy View
Copyright © 1992 Strange Ways

1. ...Can manage...
2. Following you
3. Annie
4. Leading men
5. It´s not too late
6. The sparrows and the nightingales
7. Angry today
8. Kissing the wall
9. This time
10. Anybody´s window
11. Listen!

Basic pop beats from softened synth percussions build ground for melodic enrichment in voice and simplistic harmonic presence. The flat rhythm, like the electronic leading melody rearing between few numeric poles on the tone scale, remains mostly unchanging and thus forms consensus with a potential increase in exponential expressionism.

As with mountains reaching the top level of clouds in the sky, the beauty of this music stems from the transcendent elements, both in musical and logical presentation. The soft voice of Peter Heppner moves through a melodic tunnel along with the accompanying thematic musical vision, creating a dark but gentle atmosphere in the vein of neogothic sensations derived from emotional variation.

Surprises are not so much original as dynamic: the content is admirably self-explorative. These musicians are not afraid of exposing unpleasant feelings or experimenting with the possibilities of transcending populist synth music in general: the baroque piano melodies, the occasional classical influences, the traces of German folk music, and the outbreak from conventional gothic music as seen with the will to leave self-pity behind and instead act according to ideals - but perhaps most importantly, the actual emotional mood and artistic spirit is sharp, clear and overwhelmingly timeless considering the modern musical frame.

As careful poetry in the tradition of heroism, together with the kind of emotional logic present in individuals of a romanticist nature, the music achieves a status in neoclassical tradition. Well deliberated life stories and world reflections exchange ideas with the listener, communicating both the sorrows of living life as a passive and emotionally broken member of an already decaying society, as well as the light and joy of taking an imperfect state into growing success. This music is ancient spirit captured in beautiful but lonely states of self-reflection and solemn contemplation.

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