Neugeborene Nachtmusik

Up until the late 19th century, the cold night air was thought to be the cause of fatal diseases and thus avoided. People blamed it for illnesses with unexplained origins and were careful about getting indoors before nighttime in order to protect themselves from this dangerous, foul smelling mist. With all windows and doors shut, they hoped to wake up healthy every morning. The unlucky ones were caught up in death's cruel grasp.

Neugeborene Nachtmusik (in translation Newborn Night Music) is a name perfectly chosen to describe the atmosphere emulated by Berlin residing musician Maurice Hermes in his new project. Haunted synthesizers are depicting an almost medieval kind of story in spite of the industrial leading sound, soaked in fear inducing and grief raising ragged distortion. A sense of hopelessness is brought out by frail ascending and descending delirious rhythms.

The lyrics are a gloomy embellishment to the suffocating loops which are shrouding any realistic chance of beauty being represented. Moist crackles show up here and there like a small swarm of treacherous insects ready to poison any trace of gaiety.

This 6 tracks release from Enfant Terrible is not for the faint of heart. It is not addressing to the sweet escape seeking listener and neither to one who fantasises about the evolution of technology and the comfort it will bring. But it will take the curious one on an adventure to the ghoulish past dominated by the primal wish to survive.

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