Question: You don't feel shy about expressing your most peronal emotions in this naked form. Do you want to confess all your sins? Does the audience have a totally passive role?

Sid: I don't think in terms like guilt or sin: they mean nothing to me - and as there's no such thing like sin, there's also nothing to confess! I don't think that the harrowing affairs I've experienced are some kind of punishment for something I might have done wrong - they are simply something I had to experience to fulfill my karmic destiny, and it's on me to learn or to reject the learning objective...

Of course the audience has a passive role insofar as listening to music on tape or CD isn't exactly what one would call an interactive process - and after all I don't care what kind of expectations an audience might have.

Question: It seems to me that sometimes in your music you wanna appeal to a metal audience like on "Trying not to breathe".Why is this so? I mean you should rather stick to that beautiful quality of songs like "Baleias Bailando".

Sid: I never try to appeal to any kind of audience! If this would be the case then I'd certainly do completely different stuff! All I'm trying to do with Antichrisis is meeting my own expectations which is to come up with the most approbriate musical expression that the idea behind a song requires: Sometimes it takes the shape of a soft piano ballad, of a folk song or even of a metal-like piece of music as it did on "Trying not to breathe". It's the song that asks for its proper musical manifestation, not the audience's anticipation!

Question: "The Farewell" can be considered as a summary of all the songs on "A Legacy of Love" with a ray of hope at the end, right? Anyway, I cannot understand the last line (due to my ignorance of German language): Would you mind to translate "Ich liebe Dich fuer immer"?

Sid: "Ich liebe Dich fuer immer" simply means "I love you forever": The most beautiful thing someone can say to you, but eventually also the greatest lie of all! There is no ray of hope at the end of "The Farewell", but a yearning for everlasting sleep and tranquility.

Question: Although love brings happiness (and sometimes sadness), "A Legacy of Love" is full of sorrow. Did you want to describe the sad side of love?

Sid: It wasn't my intention at first place to record a mostly desperate album, but fate turned out to be just that way: I lost a wonderful and precious love at that time, and divine ordinances of that kind are not supposed to make you write happy songs!

I felt so incredibly sad when I wrote those songs, and the process of writing them was like building up some kind of armoury against an engulfing darkness. Nevertheless I've also tried to show that there's more to love than just sorrow and despair, and so I put 2 songs on "A Legacy of Love" to picture as well its unbelievable beauty: "Nightswan" and "Planet Kyrah". Both songs were originally written at a time when I was still together with my former girlfriend, and so they accidently became aural sculptures of this love's chastity, innocence and virtousness.

Maybe it was the hardest part for me to perform these 2 songs in the studio, because they reminded me too much of what I had lost, but at the same time they are reminiscences of a very beautiful time in my life!

No, really, I would have wanted this album not to become as sad and sorrowful as it did, but sometimes one just cant help it.

Question: It seems to me that the perfect time for you to live in would be England in XI. Century, Sherwood, Robin Hood thing like that... am I right?

Sid: Funny that youre mentioning England, because it really is my favourite country (especially Cornwall), no matter what time or age. But I'll have to admit that I'm not too much into all that medieval stuff like Robin Hood or King Arthur; moreover I'm interested in neolithic cultures and religions as presented in the booklet-illustrations of "A Legacy of Love".

Näx: Yes, I am fascinated by the middle ages and of course by the celtic countries at that time, but there is a litlle problem that makes it impossible for me to wish to have lived at that time: The Uilleann Pipes were developed in the 17th. Century! This means I would have been forced to play an ancient, simpler and more shrill sounding form of bagpipes, like german or galician bagpipes or others. Oh no, I wouldn't want to miss my Uilleann Pipes.

Question: You've used a couple of french expressions in "The Sea". Have you chosen them to create a special feeling? Why?

Sid: I've chosen these french expressions just because they sound more poetic to me than the english or german ones: I'm always choosing words for the lyrics with great care, because words are not just a chain of vowels and consonants, moreover they possess sounds and images of their own that have to fit perfectly to the corresponding song.

Question: Will I make you laugh if I said that you have a possibility to become as good and well known as MIKE OLDFIELD or CLANNAD? Of course in the future...

Sid: No, you won't...although I think it's a bit tricky to compare a young band like Antichrisis with renown and established acts like Mike Oldfield or Clannad (By the way: Mike Oldfield's "Voyager" is one of my favourite albums - highly recommendable!), because they've already proved their firmness and continousness throughout the years, whereas time has to tell if Antichrisis will achieve the same capability - but I'm quite confident, anyway...

Näx: Well, I personally think that it is nearly impossible to reach Clannad's standard, but be assured that we're working on it.

Question: Do you think the imposition of the EU laws and standards will help with things like sexism, racism, disrespect for nature?

Näx: Oh, I like EU laws. They have great effects on the measures of bananas and condoms - two things that definitely belong together!

Sid: I do hope so - but as laws are made by politicans who are not exactly the kind of good samaritans they pretend to be, there's always the chance that things can even get worse. Although I'm very glad we got rid off these national-border-business, I'm also aware of the negative consequences - look at the things happening on the german-czechoslovakian border: prostitution, organized crime, child abuse (and I don't blame just the Czechs for that: It's the german wankers that invade towns like Cheb or Teplice to satisfy their so-called "needs")... it would be great if these things could be changed by EU-laws, but unfortunately racism, sexism & denial of nature are just the outgrowth of (mostly male) human stupidity and narrowmindedness - and there's no EU-law aginst that!

Question: Where would you go if you were able to fly with no limits of space or time? Who do you think have you been in previous lifes?

Sid : Hmm... though I'd like the idea of living in the matriarchal eras of Crete or Egypt, it seems quite reasonable to me to live here and now, which doesn't mean I'd be supposing we'd be living in the best of all worlds - but there is a spiritual purpose for us living exactly when and where we are, and I certainly don't want to mess around with universal orders!

Nevertheless I'd like to be able to live without any restrictions in freedom, peace and tranquillity somewhere by the sea (preferably Cornwall), and I hope I'll make it in this present incarnation... but most of all I'd like to live with the one I love, no matter what time or space as long as we are together forever! Maybe I'm just one of the last remaining hippies (although black-clothed and short-haired) because I still think that love, peace and understanding aren't such bad ideas.

I've received fragments of previous lifes in dreams and visions, and so far I've never been someone significant in historical terms. Best thing in social standards I've ever achieved was being an abbot in a little monastery in medieval times... seems I'm leaving all those V.I.P.-incarnations to other people.

Question: I find your lyrics to be great pieces of poetry. You must have put down a lot of time and effort into them. Do you think it's easy to write lyrics with substance? Isn't it hard for you as a German to express your feelings in English?

Sid: As I am more of a musician than a poet, it takes me more time to write the lyrics than the music itself: While I don't have to think at all to create music, it's definitely some kind of intellectual effort to find the right words!

Nevertheless it's not too difficult to me: My lyrics are based on my own emotional experiences or on my philosophy of life. I'm free to write about everything that is important to me, as I'm not limited by attitude, image or genre-affiliation.

I think I'm getting along with English quite well: I love the musical quality of this language and its multitude of expressional subtlety (something that's hard to find in my mother tongue), therefore I consider English as being the most suitable linguistic medium for my purposes.

Question: What do you think happens to us after we die? Do you believe that there's a heaven and hell or do you think that "hell" is where we are now and "heaven" (not the christian idea of heaven) is a place that we will be granted after our physical death?

Sid: I don't think that there's something like heaven or hell according to Christian mythology: Damnation or salvation are not being granted or caused by some weird deity, but lie within us.

I don't consider this world we're living in as some kind of hellish place, although some people are trying very hard to make it exactly like that: Of course there's injustice, malevolence and cruelty - but there's also beauty, love and magnificence, and maybe it's one of the most confusing experiences to realize that both heaven and hell seem to exist on the same planet at the same time, It's up to us to a certain extent whether we do open our hearts and souls to misery or to happiness, which isn't always easy, but I know too many people who love to play the part of the "poor miserable bugger" instead of opening themselves to the beauty and the kindness that's also on this life's menu: It seems much easier to arrange oneself with being perpetually victimized instead of taking responsibility for one's destiny!

If we really wanted to create heaven on Earth, we could do that easily... but that goes also for hell!