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<lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:33:22 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title>&#x22;Missa Depositum Custodi&#x22; Available For Free Download</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-07-24T17:08:46+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-192</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-192</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Awesome news: Antichrisis&rsquo; renowned demo &ldquo;Missa Depositum Custodi&rdquo; is finally available for <a href="http://tunguskamusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=13&lang=en" rel="external">free download</a> at Tunguska&rsquo;s website (and coincidentally you can also order the re-issue of &ldquo;<a href="http://tunguskamusic.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=1&Itemid=11&phpMyAdmin=5Jl2n4M9shyx-TKrakqO9wETZv3&lang=en&vmcchk=1&Itemid=11" rel="external">Cantara Anachoreta</a>&rdquo; - remastered by <a href="http://www.music-lab-berlin.de/HARRIS/" rel="external">Harris Johns</a> - there). Once you have registered you&rsquo;ll be able to download all tracks of the original demo tape as well as some unreleased tracks from these early years for free from <a href="http://www.tunguskamusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=13&lang=en" rel="external">Tunguska&rsquo;s website</a>. Don&rsquo;t miss it!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Geneigt1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/geneigt1.jpg" width="152" height="352"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x22;Crossing The Line (Dark Feather Remix)&#x22; Uploaded</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-07-24T14:54:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-191</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-191</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A few months ago Holger Warschkow of <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/" rel="external">Dark Feather</a> asked me for a contribution to his zine&rsquo;s 10th anniversary edition, and I was more than glad to agree to provide a remix of &ldquo;Crossing The Line&rdquo; that I was working on at that time.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Crossing The Line DF Rounded" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/crossing-the-line-df-rounded.jpg" width="206" height="325"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Maybe a lot of you might think something like &ldquo;Duh - does the world really need another dispensable remix? Aren&rsquo;t remixes just a bad case of flogging a dead horse with making some extra money from an already released song?&rdquo; - and of course I can&rsquo;t completely deny that attitude. <br /><br />But there&rsquo;s something else about remixes: In the older days (yes, I was born in the sixties, so I should know all about those good ol&rsquo; times!) a band recorded a song on tape and once it had been mixed and produced that song could not been altered any more - it was on tape, it was done, and the only thing you could do was a bit of remastering when you felt the need for it.<br /><br />But these days are gone: Nowadays with all those hard disc recording-prospects there is no such thing like a &ldquo;finished&rdquo; track any more. Thanks to your software sequencer&rsquo;s total recall-capabilities one can work on a project, finish it - and re-open it again 12 months later with all the proper settings just for adding an idea for a new guitar line. And me, I surely love that kind operation method.<br /><br />Besides, since I&rsquo;ve released the first version of &ldquo;Crossing The Line&rdquo; I couldn&rsquo;t help but notice that this track needed a more powerful Techno beat to make it work - maybe there are some things that you&rsquo;ll only find out after having &ldquo;lived&rdquo; with a song for a couple of weeks. <br /><br />Anyway, that&rsquo;s the reason why I picked up &ldquo;Crossing The Line&rdquo; again and revised it for Dark Feather No. 10 (by the way: you can still get the entire double-album <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/" rel="external">here</a>): the groove&rsquo;s emphasis is now focused completely on danceability and there&rsquo;s also a more aggressive midsection as well as additional vocals by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">Ayuma</a>. You may download or listen to &ldquo;Crossing The Line (Dark Feather Remix)&rdquo; <a href="02/music.html" rel="external" title="Music">here</a>. Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x22;No Going Back&#x22; Uploaded</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-07-05T21:06:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-190</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-190</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just uploaded a new song called &ldquo;<a href="02/music.html" rel="external" title="Music">No Going Back</a>&rdquo;: Some of you may remember this track because its demo version appeared on this website long time ago. &ldquo;No Going Back&rdquo; was written during the time I wrote lots of other stuff for &ldquo;The Legacy Remains&rdquo; (i. e. the album that never was), but I wasn&rsquo;t really satisfied with the original version.<br /><br />But when <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">Ayuma</a> started singing that song I instantly knew that we were working on the real thing. I also noticed that my primal scintillation of recording &ldquo;No Going Back&rdquo; as a plain vanilla ballad without any drums and bass was a flop, as the song seemed to lack the sparkling brilliance that is now added by the rhythm section (thanks to <a href="http://www.toontrack.com" rel="external">Toontrack&rsquo;s</a> <a href="http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=30" rel="external">Superior Drummer</a> and <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/" rel="external">Spectrasonic&rsquo;s</a> <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilian.php" rel="external">Trilian</a>).<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="No Going Back" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/no-going-back.jpg" width="183" height="319"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">I&rsquo;m really proud of this version because Ayuma&rsquo;s vocals bear that special kind of melancholy airiness that emphasizes the overall feeling of that song: the battle is over and you have lost - and there&rsquo;s absolutely no way of ever going back. But at the same time this means that there&rsquo;s no more burden on your shoulder: though you&rsquo;ve been bereaved of something that once was so precious to you, you are now free from a situation that was only causing pain in the end. Let your tears flow for the past, but the future&rsquo;s promise lies already ahead and it&rsquo;s sounding like a sparkling waterfall from afar.<br /><br />Maybe this is one of Antichrisis&rsquo; most catchy tracks so far - but don&rsquo;t get fooled by the song&rsquo;s overall easiness: still a deep sense of valediction is lurking under its surface.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x22;The Point Of No Return&#x22; Uploaded</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-06-13T18:23:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-189</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-189</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Although I&rsquo;m pretty occupied with watching the Football World Cup in South Africa these days, I&rsquo;ve anyway found the time to upload a new Antichrisis track called &ldquo;The Point of No Return&rdquo; (click <a href="02/music.html" rel="external" title="Music">here</a> to listen or download).<br /><br />This song has seen quite a few transformations since I&rsquo;ve written it sometime in 2002; at first it was called &ldquo;The Way&rdquo;, but I could never get my head around finishing it - until I played the demo version of that song to <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">Ayuma</a> last January: As soon as she heard the track she was instantly hooked to it - and after rehearsing a couple of times she came up with those great vocal lines you&rsquo;re now hearing on that recording. Besides, &ldquo;The Point Of No Return&rdquo; contains also great performances by Frank J. Hennig and N&auml;x, so thanks a lot for your contribution, guys!<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="FinalTPONR" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/finaltponr.jpg" width="210" height="312"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">But after I had finished mixing the 78 tracks that &ldquo;The Point of No Return&rdquo; consists of I swore to myself that I would never be recording as many tracks for just one song again - possibly!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Flattering Flattr</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Entries in English</category><category>News</category><dc:date>2010-06-04T20:42:24+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-188</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-188</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You may have already noticed the new Flattr-badges at the end of every blog entry and behind every song on this website, hence here&rsquo;s an explanation for that in a nutshell. <br /><br />Working on Antichrisis&rsquo; music and on this website is a very time-consuming mission. Of course I do it simply because I love making music and fortunately many of you out there seem to like Antichrisis&rsquo; musical output. Nevertheless I&rsquo;m doing all this in my spare time, and believe me: it really is a lot of work - just take a look at this screenshot of one of my latest songs in <a href="http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/" rel="external">Logic Studio</a>:<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Logic" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/logic.jpg" width="323" height="278"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">The songs you find on this website are distributed online for non-commercial purposes, but quite a few of you have asked again and again in the past for an easy way of contributing at least a little bit of money for Antichrisis&rsquo; songs - and this is where <a href="https://flattr.com/" rel="external">Flattr</a> kicks in.<br /><br />Though currently still closed beta (but you can already sign up for an invitation code), Flattr is a micropayment project started by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sunde" rel="external">Peter Sunde</a> and Linus Olsson. Users will be able to pay a small monthly amount and then click buttons on sites to share out the money they paid in among those sites, sort of like an Internet tip jar. The minimum users will have to pay is 2 euros. Sunde said, "the money you pay each month will be spread evenly among the buttons you click in a month. We want to encourage people to share money as well as content.&rdquo;<br /><br />The following video gives you an idea of how <a href="https://flattr.com/" rel="external">Flattr</a> works - and the very first moment I heard about this project I thought &ldquo;This is the future for content payment on the internet: a fair spreading between users and content providers - and in the end it breaks down the barriers between these two groups. Now isn&rsquo;t that exactly what Punk was all about in its early days?&rdquo;<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9zrMlEEWBgY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9zrMlEEWBgY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />So if you want to be part of this new movement, sign up at <a href="https://flattr.com/" rel="external">Flattr</a> and start the revolution now - and don't forget to click on any of the Flattr-badges on this website to get Antichrisis flattred, too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dark Feather No. 10 Jubilee Edition released</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-05-23T18:26:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-187</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-187</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Holger Warschkow has just released the jubilee edition of Dark Feather No. 10, including a previously unreleased version of &ldquo;Crossing The Line&rdquo;, specially remixed for this anniversary edition. <br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="DF10" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/df10.jpg" width="200" height="252"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Dark Feather No. 10 comes as double CD and contains besides Antichrisis&rsquo; &ldquo;Crossing The Line (Dark Feather Remix)&rdquo;<br />also tracks by 7 Seals, A.Stray, Alexa, Alter Vocalis Ego, Apo Velation, At Daggers Drawn, Avatar, Avataria, Black Chameleon, Die Votion, Embercrow, End Of The Road, Ferment, Frozen Memory, Mirrored In Secrecy, My Lucina, Nion, Osiris T., Plastic Autumn, Shade Of Shambles, Stealing The Bride, Stormgarde, Summer&rsquo;s End, Tharsys, The Exploding Boy, Via Obscura, Wort-Ton and Your Favourite Nightmare. <br /><br />As this double CD is sold for 6,50 in Germany and 8,50 &euro; within Europe (including postage and packing), it&rsquo;s definitely a bargain - so don&rsquo;t hesitate to contact Holger at <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/" rel="external">Dark Feather</a> to get hold of your copy of this really awesome sampler.<br /><br />Find also Holger&rsquo;s short interview with Antichrisis (in German only) <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/ausgabe10/antichrisis.html" rel="external">here</a>: This time not only Sid is answering Holger&rsquo;s questions, but also Antichrisis&rsquo; female vocalist <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">Ayuma</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cantara Anachoreta Reloaded</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-05-19T06:47:01+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-186</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-186</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Tunguska Records has re-released the eagerly sought-after debut feature "Cantara Anachoreta" including special bonus track "Beautiful Wolves" that didn't make it on the original release on account of playing time limitations back then. <br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="CA" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/ca.jpg" width="344" height="417"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">So Tunguska Records proudly presents "<a href="(null)/(null)" rel="external" title="Cantara Anachoreta Tunguska Edition">Cantara Anachoreta</a>" by Antichrisis not only as a double album (Yes, "Beautiful Wolves" is really that long!), but also remastered by legendary engineer and producer <a href="http://www.music-lab-berlin.de/HARRIS/" rel="external">Harris Johns</a> (Kreator, Voivod, Sodom, Einstuerzende Neubauten), glamourizing the album with delightful depth and tremendous warmth. <br /><br />In addition to that the album's artwork got revised from scratch and now contains superb and exquisite illustrations by one of Germany's most talented and groundbreaking cover artists, making this new edition also interesting for those who already own the original release of 1997.<br /><br />As this album is distributed by Twilight, international availability should be no problem. For further information see <a href=" www.tunguskamusic.com" rel="external">Tunguska&rsquo;s website</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dark Feather No. 9 is out</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-04-20T17:55:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-185</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-185</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[American journalist and author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson" rel="external">Hunter S. Thompson</a> once wrote: &ldquo;The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side&rdquo; and he was probably right: so many people involved in the music biz are just in it for the wrong reasons, be it money, megalomania, fame, egomania or just because they simply don&rsquo;t know how to cope with an ordinary life.<br /><br />But sometimes one runs into people who are in it for exactly the right reasons: because they love music, because they get really excited when listening to a great new track by a completely unknown artist, because they don&rsquo;t care at all about the charts but are more likely to search the unchartered depths of the world wide web instead for something new that nobody else might have heard of, and they love to share their findings with the world because they are absolutely convinced that the rest of mankind should listen to good music instead of all that piddling Top Ten drivel.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="DFBanner" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/dfbanner.jpg" width="477" height="252"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Such a guy is <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/team.htm" rel="external">Holger Warschkow</a> of <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/" rel="external">Dark Feather</a>: he puts so much effort and lifeblood into his Underground-Zine just because he believes in what he is doing and the bands he is supporting. And although Dark Feather&rsquo;s subject is Gothic and Metal, Holger&rsquo;s own musical taste goes far beyond these brands &mdash; and I&rsquo;m sure that Hunter S. Thompson would have found much nicer words to characterise the music business if more people like Holger were involved.<br /><br />Because of all that I decided to submit a previously unreleased Antichrisis song to Holger&rsquo;s newest edition of his zine/sampler Dark Feather No. 9 called &ldquo;The Point Of No Return&rdquo;, featuring <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">Ayuma</a> on vocals as well as guest appearances by Frank Hennig and N&auml;x. &ldquo;The Point Of No Return&rdquo; is Antichrisis&rsquo; latest track with a playing time of more than 9 minutes &mdash; and what else is there to say about that song as well as Antichrisis&rsquo; future plans can be read in the corresponding <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net/ausgabe9/antichrisis.html" rel="external">interview</a> (which is in German only).<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="DF9" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/df9.jpg" width="292" height="325"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">If you should be interested in purchasing that terribly recommendable sampler (containing 12 more remarkable bands apart from Antichrisis) just follow the instructions on <a href="http://www.darkfeather.net" rel="external">http://www.darkfeather.net</a> if you&rsquo;re from Germany or send an email to <a href="mailto:contact@darkfeather.net" rel="external">contact@darkfeather.net</a> if you&rsquo;re from anywhere else in the world, because the CD-sampler itself is only 1,95 &euro; (that&rsquo;s definitely a bargain if I ever saw one!), but postage and packing may vary depending on what part of the world the CD has to be sent to.<br /><br />And more good news are on the way &mdash; just wait until the 14th of May!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy New Year to All of You</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2010-01-06T09:16:28+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-184</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/index.html#unique-entry-id-184</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Devotees,<br /><br />A new year has arrived, and we still have to put up with the likes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel" rel="external">Angela Merkel</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Westerwelle" rel="external">Guido Westerwelle</a> over here in Germany -  but fortunately from now on Antichrisis isn't bound any longer to GEMA (German performing rights society), which means that all new tracks by Antichrisis can now be used for internet broadcasting and non-commercial purposes of all kind (under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/" rel="external">Creative Commons License</a>). That's good news, I guess (especially for all those internet radio stations who couldn't play Antichrisis songs in the past due to these issues)- and as legal matters are sorted out now, some exciting new tracks will see their release in 2010.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Ayuma" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/ayuma.jpg" width="276" height="245"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Thus I've also added a download section to our website: Feel free to download those tracks <a href="http://antichrisis.net/5/downloads.html" rel="external">there</a> if you want to add them to your music library - they're all good quality mp3-files so they should sound alright on any mp3-device.<br /><br />By the way: I won't be doing any blog-entries in German any more. I can see by the emails I receive that the vast majority of Antichrisis-fans seem to come from abroad, and I'm sure that our German fans will be able to understand entries in English as well. It's simply a time-saver for me if I only have to write entries once, so I hope you'll understand this decision (and it's also a good way of annoying gladsome Guido, our linguistically challenged foreign minister).<br /><br />A few weeks ago I've met <a href="http://www.bluehouse-studio.de/" rel="external">Jens</a>, our former producer, again: He's now working for <a href="http://www.labogaamps.com/english/main.html" rel="external">Laboga Amps</a> and <a href="http://www.vig-guitars.com/" rel="external">VIG Guitars</a>, and we spent a very cool evening in Nuremberg with him and his endorser <a href="http://www.tommy-denander.com/" rel="external">Tommi Denander</a>, who turned out to be a really nice and folksy bloke - and one can really learn a lot by having a good time with such professional musicians.<br /><br />My wife Ayuma also came up with some great new songs last year which I'm having the honour to produce. If you'd be interested in German music with a very special touch, check out her songs at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/ayumamusic" rel="external">MySpace</a> or at Ayuma's own <a href="http://web.mac.com/ayuma" rel="external">website</a>. By the way: Ayuma also did the female vocals on "Here Comes The Night" and "Ocean's Too Wide" - and "The Point Of No Return&rdquo; is already on its way.<br /><br />And here's another piece of news: Julia Dobberstein is working on a re-release of "Cantara Anachoreta" with all tracks remastered by Harris Johns, new stunning artwork by Ben and "Beautiful Wolves" as bonus track. There's no release date yet, but as soon as this collector's item will be revealed, I'll let you know.<br /><br />And if anyone out there would like to follow Antichrisis on Twitter, just look for <a href="http://twitter.com/Boscastle" rel="external">http://twitter.com/Boscastle</a> (Yep, it's "Boscastle" and not "Antichrisis", as everybody would have assumed. Those who know me will get the reference, anyway).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Airborne Toxic Event: The Airborne Toxic Event</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-09-19T00:12:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-182</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-182</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Remember the times when almost every new album was fresh and exciting? When ABC came glamouring around the corner with &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Love" rel="external">The Lexicon of Love</a>&rdquo;, Orange Juice made us sing along to &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Hide_Your_Love_Forever" rel="external">You Can&rsquo;t Hide Your Love Forever</a>&rdquo;, Adam & The Ants suddenly went all rather piratty with &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charming_(album)" rel="external">Prince Charming</a>&rdquo;, Human League dared us with &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_(album)" rel="external">Dare</a>&rdquo;, Soft Cell opened their seedy &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Stop_Erotic_Cabaret" rel="external">Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret</a>&rdquo;, Yazoo took us &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstairs_at_Eric%27s" rel="external">Upstairs at Eric&rsquo;s</a>&rdquo; and Songs like New Order&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(New_Order_song)" rel="external">Blue Monday</a>&rdquo; kept us tied to the dancefloor? And what does this all have to do with <a href="http://www.theairbornetoxicevent.com/" rel="external">Airborne Toxic Event</a> from Los Angeles? They don&rsquo;t sound like any of the aforementioned bands at all, but their songs are somehow transforming the spirit of audacity, renovation and unspoiled boldness that made these former records so action-packed and stimulating.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="ATE" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/ate.jpg" width="400" height="339"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Mikel Jollet is a fantastic singer with the grandezza of the truly great performer, the band&rsquo;s lyrics are witty and sophisticated and their music sounds sometimes like a mixture between Pulp and Bruce Springsteen while always being completey independent, unique, touching and as teenage-anthem-like as great rock music can get: Their album that&rsquo;s simply titled &ldquo;Airborne Toxic Event&rdquo; is without question as important as Nirvana&rsquo;s &ldquo;Nevermind&rdquo; (but vertainly much more uplifting) or Blondie&rsquo;s &ldquo;Parallel Lines&rdquo; (with just the same sense for great pop-tunes). &ldquo;The Airborne Toxic Event&rdquo; is by far the best rock album in 2009 (although it was first released in 2008) and songs like &ldquo;Sometime Around Midnight&rdquo;, &ldquo;Wishing Well&rdquo;, &ldquo;Does This Mean You&rsquo;re Moving On?&rdquo; or &ldquo;The Winning Side&rdquo; are evidence that contemporary rock music can still be as moving, exciting and stirring as in the good old days of 1982!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2007-07-07T05:54:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-180</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-180</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.brucespringsteen.net/">Bruce Springsteen&rsquo;s</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> new live album &ldquo;Live in Dublin&rdquo; is simply amazing: I just watched the DVD-version and I&rsquo;m still flabbergasted by the spirited cast and the professional performance of this bunch of brilliant musicians: Must be a dream to have a backing band like that!<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Springsteen" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/springsteen.jpg" width="223" height="274"/><br /><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Bruce does a few new versions of some old classics like &ldquo;Further on up the Road&rdquo; and &ldquo;If I should fall behind&rdquo;, but although these versions are very different from the originals, they&rsquo;re nevertheless fantastic. It&rsquo;s also great to hear and see that the musicians on stage really seem to enjoy themselves - and no wonder, because Bruce never pretends to be &ldquo;The Boss&rdquo; (which is anyway a rather unfitting nickname for an unpretentious musician like him!), as he invites every member of the band to show his/her skills! All in all an album/DVD that can&rsquo;t be recommended too much! I just wished I had been at one of these gigs.<br /><br /><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-02-15T05:49:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-179</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-179</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">A new Springsteen-album is out, and it received a lot of bad reviews already. To be honest, &ldquo;Working On A Dream&rdquo; is not one of Bruce&rsquo;s strongest albums, especially if compared to last year&rsquo;s masterpiece &ldquo;Magic&rdquo;. </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.brucespringsteen.net/">Springsteen</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> himself said &lsquo;Towards the end of recording &ldquo;Magic&rdquo;, excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O&rsquo;Brien heard the new songs, he said, &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s keep going.&rsquo; All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end.&rdquo; I think this statement explains the main problem of &ldquo;Working On A Dream&rdquo;: Whereas &ldquo;Magic&rdquo; contained the blend selection of songs, the leftovers of those sessions found their way on &ldquo;Working on a Dream&rdquo; - but even second quality Springsteen-songs can be much better than anything else in today&lsquo;s rock music.<br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bruce" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/bruce.jpg" width="303" height="220"/><br /><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">So everyone not being a retarded colour-blind 80ies-devotee will agree that the cheesy album cover is definitely one of the worst that any half-witted artwork designer could ever come up with - but who cares? It&lsquo;s the music that matters, not the album cover and if anyone is to blame, than it&lsquo;s the designer and not Mr. Springsteen.<br /><br />But after the visual drawback let&lsquo;s turn to the audible side:<br /><br />The album opens with &ldquo;Outlaw Pete&rdquo;:&nbsp;a very good choice, as this song is a perfect mixture of Springsteen&rsquo;s early days (say &ldquo;Greetings from Asbury Park&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle&rdquo;-era) and his later, more modern sound. Very epic, very catchy - a perfect opener.<br /><br />I&rsquo;m sure that the next track &ldquo;My Lucky Day&rdquo; will work just fine when performed live: hard stomping good times Rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; Roll - but we all know that Bruce can do much better than that. To me it sounds a bit like an outtake of his &ldquo;Human Touch&rdquo; and &ldquo;Lucky Town&rdquo;-era.<br /><br />&ldquo;Working On A Dream&rdquo; is the album&rsquo;s single, and it&rsquo;s a good but also bland pop song. I&rsquo;m sure that everybody would like this track if it would have appeared for example on the next Tom Petty-album&hellip; but as aforesaid: Bruce can do so much better than that. A little bit disappointing if you ask me.<br /><br />&ldquo;Queen Of The Supermarket&rdquo; has received many spiteful comments by rock critics so far - but come on: I know those sophisticated blokes spend their lifes in the hippest bars with the in-crowd and love to make clever remarks about what they think is relevant in life&hellip; but there are real people in the real world who have to work hard for their living, and these people can&rsquo;t afford to go to sushi bars or Starbuck&rsquo;s, instead they&rsquo;re having a cheap pint in the next pub and they actually have to go shopping in supermarkets - and maybe some ordinary customer there might fall in love with a queen of the supermarket even if a company cap covers her hair: nothing wrong with that. So everybody accusing Springsteen for this song&rsquo;s lyrics should ask himselt if he might have become a bit too posh to remember what real life is all about - and maybe it&rsquo;s Bruce&rsquo;s big credit that despite being a rock star he can still remember what it&rsquo;s like to be part of the common people. Musically it&rsquo;s one of the best songs on the album, exuding the E Street Band&rsquo;s warm and brilliant cinematic sound all over the place.<br /><br />&ldquo;What Love Can Do&rdquo; is a very haunting and catchy piece of music - but as I watched the sessions video contained on the deluxe version of this CD where Bruce played an acoustic version of this song to his fellow musicians, I realised that &ldquo;What Love Can Do&rdquo; would have been a much more intense song if it would have been recorded exactly that way: just plain vanilla with Bruce&rsquo;s voice and his acoustic guitar. Guess &ldquo;What Love Can Do&rdquo; would have been a good job for a producer like Rick Rubin, whereas Brendan O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s production fails to put the song in the right spot here.<br /><br />I&rsquo;ve never been much of a Beach Boys fan, hence &ldquo;This Life&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t catch my attention with all it&rsquo;s vocal references to the Californian surf gang. Nice piece of work for proving that the E Street Band is capable of playing a song that sounds pretty much like the Beach Boys, but nothing more.<br /><br />&ldquo;Good Eye&rdquo; is a raw blues track that would have made a perfect song for the White Stripes, but definitely not for the E Street Band: Their sound&rsquo;s too perfect, too big and too technicolour-like to perform a piece of mangy black & white low-fi Delta Blues like this, hence this song just silts up as it goes along.<br /><br />Springsteen has always been a good C&W-singer, and so &ldquo;Tomorrow Never Knows&rdquo; (not to be confused with the great Beatles-track of the same name) is a very nice and sweet C&W-ballad&hellip; maybe a bit too nice and neat, but what the heck: the truckers will love it anyway.<br /><br />&ldquo;Life Itself&rdquo; is definitely an album highlight: dedicated to the late Danny Federici, this track shows a dark and thoughtful Springsteen, both awesome and touching: Bruce at his best.<br /><br />&ldquo;Kingdom Of Days&rdquo; seems like a bit of self-plagiarism to me: Springsteen quotes himself and in spite of the song&rsquo;s beautiful string arrangement it still sounds like a Springsteen tribute band trying to be the real thing - not my cup of tea.<br /><br />&ldquo;Surprise Surprise&rdquo; sure is a surprise to me: innocent and simple birthday lyrics disguised by a song that would have made both The Byrds and The Jam proud if they&rsquo;d have written it. Despite its naive lyrics another great track that in my opinion would have made a much better single than &ldquo;Working On A Dream&rdquo;. And why shouldn&rsquo;t anyone be allowed to write a better birthday song than boring old &ldquo;Happy Birthday To You&rdquo;?<br /><br />Funny enough, the most outstanding tracks of this album are to be found at the end. &ldquo;The Last Carnival&rdquo; goes so deep that it simply sends shivers down my spine: A pure and fervent acoustic ballad with such a beautiful and dreamlike backing choir that it leaves the listener completely flabbergasted. Again Springsteen proves that he&rsquo;s often best when exploring his more contemplative side&hellip; and the same goes for the album&rsquo;s bonus track &ldquo;The Wrestler&rdquo;: Even darker and more abandoned than &ldquo;The Last Carnival&rdquo;; there&rsquo;s no light at the end of this song&rsquo;s tunnel. Another soundtrack by Bruce that&rsquo;s almost as good as &ldquo;Dead Man Walking&rdquo;: simply awesome!<br /><br />So what have we here? &ldquo;Working On A Dream&rdquo; is definitily not as good as &ldquo;Magic&rdquo; was - but on the other hand it&rsquo;s not as bad as many critics insist. Sure there are some songs on this album that wouldn&rsquo;t necessarily have to be released, but there are also tracks like &ldquo;Life Itself&rdquo;, &ldquo;The Last Carnival&rdquo; or &ldquo;Outlaw Pete&rdquo; which are simply outstanding and evidencing that Springsteen&rsquo;s still one of the best song wrighters in today&rsquo;s rock music. So all in all I&rsquo;m a very satisfied customer, knowing that no artist is capable of releasing a masterpiece like &ldquo;Magic&rdquo; every year&hellip; Good job, Bruce - and I can&rsquo;t wait to see you live in Germany in July!<br /><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Glasvegas: First Album</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-03-20T05:46:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-178</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-178</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Just stumbled across </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.glasvegas.net/">Glasvegas</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">&rsquo; brilliant debut album: definitely one of this year&rsquo;s best performances containing soon-to-be-classics like &ldquo;Lonesome Swan&rdquo;, &ldquo;Daddy&rsquo;s Gone&rdquo; and &ldquo;Geraldine&rdquo;. Highly recommended to everyone being into </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.jesusandmarychain.org/">The Jesus & Mary Chain&rsquo;s</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> first two albums, though Glasvegas&rsquo; lyrics are much better and their music does not contain as many 60&rsquo;s resemblances as those of the Reids&rsquo;. Great songs, intelligent lyrics and a lush sound the reminds of the good old C86-days.<br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Glasvegas" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/glasvegas.jpg" width="296" height="237"/><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>U2: No Line on the Horizon</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-03-20T05:43:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-177</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-177</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Hey, </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.u2.com/">U2&rsquo;s</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> new album really came as a surprise to me: they&rsquo;ve tried to come up with something new and one can easily sense that they didn&rsquo;t make the mistake of just repeating themselves, instead they&rsquo;ve tried to widen their sound. OK, songs like &ldquo;Get on Your Boots&rdquo; and &ldquo;Stand Up Comedy&rdquo; are simply dispensable, but the rest of the album is &nbsp;stupendously good and in some cases even exciting like &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll Go Crazy if I Don&rsquo;t Go Crazy Tonight&rdquo;, &ldquo;Cedars of Lebanon&rdquo;, &ldquo;Fez&rdquo; or &ldquo;White as Snow&rdquo;. All in all an album that I wouldn&rsquo;t have expected after U2&rsquo;s last mediocre releases &ldquo;All That You Can&rsquo;t Leave Behind&rdquo; and &ldquo;How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb&rdquo;: Great sound, great production and a daring spirit - well done, guys.<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="U2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/u2.jpg" width="233" height="239"/><br /><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Peter Doherty: The Last of the English Roses</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-04-05T05:37:13+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-176</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-176</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">I never liked The Libertines that much because they didn&rsquo;t sound exciting to me: nothing new under the sun than just another hype. And The Babyshambles were nothing more than mere shambles - but suddenly </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.myspace.com/gracewastelands">Peter Doherty</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> comes up with a really good album (Grace/Wastelands) and a brilliant single called &ldquo;The Last of The English Roses&rdquo;, which just proves the fact that this guy needs a band like a fish needs a bicycle. Good album, great single - keep it up!</span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; color:#000000;"><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Doherty" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/doherty.jpg" width="222" height="285"/><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Depeche Mode: Sounds of the Universe</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-04-29T05:33:34+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-175</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-175</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">I always had some kind of soft spot for </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.depechemode.com/">Depeche Mode</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">: I loved their first two albums &ldquo;Speak & Spell&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Broken Frame&rdquo;, but somehow I&rsquo;ve lost my interest after &ldquo;Music for the Masses&rdquo;: though they still were a great band for singles, their later albums didn&rsquo;t work for me any more.<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Antichrisis3" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/antichrisis3.jpg" width="248" height="186"/><br /><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">But when I heard &ldquo;Wrong&rdquo; a few weeks ago I thought I&rsquo;d give their new album &ldquo;Sounds of the Universe&rdquo; a chance because &ldquo;Wrong&rdquo; is a really stomping and pushing hit single that I didn&rsquo;t expect from these old Basildon chaps any more&hellip; but to be honest: &ldquo;Wrong&rdquo; along with &ldquo;Fragile Tension&rdquo; are merely exceptional tracks because the rest of this album is just terribly boring. Depeche Mode got caught in the trap of many well-established bands: they end up playing run-to-the-mill music for a run-to-the-mill market because they simply dont&rsquo; have to achieve anything any more. U2 got out of that trap with exploring new musical shores on &ldquo;No Line on the Horizon&rdquo;, but that&rsquo;s an attitude that Depeche Mode haven&rsquo;t got discovered yet.<br /><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Flor-de-Lis: Todas As Ruas Do Amor&#xa;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-05-15T05:25:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-174</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-174</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Admittedly this dreaded Eurovision Song Contest is largely a rather embarrassing event where cheesiness meets scurrility in enormous amounts - but from time to time even this gathering of musical failure confessions surprisingly gets hit by great songs: In 2004 it was Ukrainian singer Ruslana Lyzhicko with her early-Adam-Ant-meets-Xena-the-Warrior-Princess uptempo disco-hybrid </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yzi5D8aWkM">&ldquo;Wild Dances&rdquo;</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">, which was a really good dance track, and this year it&rsquo;s a bunch or portuguese buskers called </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.myspace.com/flordelisbanda">Flor-de-Lis</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> with their beautiful folk ballad </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t6Ukud55Ec">&ldquo;Todas As Ruas Do Amor&rdquo;</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">. As my Portuguese is just as bad as my Ukrainian, I don&rsquo;t really know what &ldquo;Todas As Ruas Do Amor&rdquo; is all about, but it really doesn&rsquo;t matter: This catchy and enchanting song comes down like a warm shower of summer rain, and once percussion and accordion start giving the song its magical spin, you&rsquo;re completely hooked by this tune&rsquo;s superb musical quality.<br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Antichrisis1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/antichrisis1.jpg" width="259" height="194"/><br /><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Seems that this is simply the difference between a real musicians playing a real song with real instruments instead of those overall dressed-to-kill but surplus and shallow show-off ditties like Svetlana Loboda&rsquo;s &ldquo;Be My Valentine&rdquo;, which I nevertheless have to be thankful for because never before has the name &ldquo;Antichrisis&rdquo; been mentioned that often on TV like last night when she performed this song: See the world&rsquo;s biggest female Antichrisis-Fan&nbsp;</span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tclgXblcKa0">here</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">!<br /><br />The Eurovision Song Contest Finale will take place on 16th May 2009, and I sincerely do hope that Flor-de-Lis are going to win, because even if they don&rsquo;t mention Antichrisis anywhere in their song, &ldquo;Todas As Ruas Do Amor&rdquo; is by far the best track of the entire contest and therefore deserves international breakthrough.<br /><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>White Lies: To Lose My Life</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><dc:date>2009-05-30T05:20:31+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-173</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Hands down, those lyrics are mindbogglingly daft&hellip; but, hey, we&rsquo;re talking about pop music here and not about the Novel Price in Literature. And as bassist Charles Cave admits: &ldquo;I felt as though I couldn&rsquo;t write about anything personal, so I would make up semi-comical stories that weren&rsquo;t really important to anyone, not even me.&rdquo; Well done, lad - lines like<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">&ldquo;Could it tremble stars from moon light skies<br />Could it drag a tear from your cold eyes<br />I live on the right side, I sleep in the left<br />That&rsquo;s why everything&rsquo;s got to be love or death&rdquo;<br /></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">or<br /></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">&ldquo;The moonlight licked the face of danger<br />Innocence made us like soldiers<br />Untouchable and golden<br />The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops&rdquo;<br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">definitely do have a lot of comical potential, but that&rsquo;s not the point. The point is: </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.whitelies.com/">White Lies</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> introduced fun to a genre that once started with bands like </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division">Joy Divison</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">, </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus_(band)">Bauhaus</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">, </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English_(band)">Modern English</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> or </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Mortal_Coil">This Mortal Coil</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">, hence everyone&rsquo;s playing this kind of darkish New Wave stuff was supposed to be dead serious about life, more preferably death and all the melodramatic rest.<br /><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Antichrisis" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/antichrisis.jpg" width="225" height="225"/><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br />Younger bands like </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.editorsofficial.com/">Editors</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> or </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.interpolnyc.com/">Interpol</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> picked up the pieces by simply copying the paradigm and graveness of that genre - but then this bunch from Ealing appeared on the scene with songs that sounded pretty much like </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultravox">Ultravox</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> between 1979 and 1986, combined with a small grain of Joy Divisiousness and a little bit of </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.u2.com/">U2</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">&rsquo;s pompousness - and the kids just loved it, which is something that the critics can&rsquo;t stand at all. If one&rsquo;s playing that kind of music, one should at least pretend to be serious about it!<br /><br />But White Lies don&rsquo;t care: Instead they&rsquo;re writing good and catchy tunes, hence listening to their debut album &ldquo;To lose My Life&rdquo; is a nice and pleasant experience. Of course all comparisons to Joy Division are foredoomed: There are definitely no masterpieces like &ldquo;Atmosphere&rdquo;, &ldquo;Love Will Tear Us Apart Again&rdquo; or &ldquo;Transmission&rdquo; to be found on the White Lies&rsquo; debut album, and singer Harry McVeigh doesn&rsquo;t sound like </span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Curtis">Ian Curtis</a></span><span style="font:11px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "> at all (in fact he doesn&rsquo;t even try to, which speaks in his favour), but &ldquo;To Lose My Life&rdquo;, &ldquo;The Price of Love&rdquo; and &ldquo;Death&rdquo; are really cool pop-songs, anyway. Unlike their competitors, White Lies have found a new and refreshing way to deal with the Post-Punk genre and are succesfully getting away with it - and if you don&rsquo;t mind brummagem and pretentious lyrics, you will have a pretty good time with this album.<br /><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musikmesse Frankfurt 2009</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Miscellaneous</category><dc:date>2009-04-05T13:12:16+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-172</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-172</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We went to the Musikmesse in Frankfurt on Friday the 3rd, and it was a really cool experience: the guys at the small <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/">Spectrasonics</a> booth were very friendly and charming although they had to deal with a few hardware problems, and we also had much fun with the Stevie from <a href="http://www.fender.com/">Fender</a> and Jens from <a href="http://www.labogaamps.com/english/main.html">Laboga</a> and <a href="http://www.vgs-guitars.com/products_vgs.html?&L=1">VGS</a>. Seems that my favourite electric guitars are still those of <a href="http://www.burnsguitars.com/">Burns London</a> and <a href="http://www.prsguitars.com/">Paul Reed Smith</a>, but I also fell in love with the very beautifully handcrafted instruments from <a href="http://www.zerberus-guitars.de/">Zerberus Guitars</a>: fantastic guitars at a fantastic price. Nevertheless I was also impressed by Moog's new and innovative <a href="http://www.moogmusic.com/moogguitar/">guitar</a> with its awesome new full sustain mode, and if it comes to acoustic guitars I'm still a big fan of <a href="http://www.takamine.com/">Takamine</a>.<br /><br />The guys from <a href="http://www.tc-helicon.com/">TC-Helicon</a> also had some cool new hardware to present, and all in all we were more than busy trying to get a &nbsp;glimpse on everything that caught our interest, but it's simply impossible to watch all in one day. When returning home in the evening, all we wished for were our beds and no more of those dreaded heavy metal guitar-solos!<span style="font:13px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; "><br /></span><span style="font:13px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; color:#222222;"><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font:13px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; color:#222222;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="400" id="BZF49A50B96CA849298B4F" data="http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/bzAnimation.swf?swfId=BZF49A50B96CA849298B4F&xmlPath=http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/bz.xml&imgPath=http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/img&urlType=_top&showInfo=1&themeMode=2"><param name="movie" value="http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/bzAnimation.swf?swfId=BZF49A50B96CA849298B4F&xmlPath=http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/bz.xml&imgPath=http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/Musikmesse/img&urlType=_top&showInfo=1&themeMode=2" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param></object></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Die Zukunft von Antichrisis &#x26; das verlorene Album</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><category>News</category><dc:date>2009-06-03T00:36:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-171</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-171</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Bob Dylan hatte recht, als er 1964 davon sang, da&szlig; die Zeiten sich &auml;ndern w&uuml;rden - und in Bezug auf die Musikbranche haben sich die Zeiten in den vergangenen Jahren sogar ziemlich drastisch ver&auml;ndert. Doch da ich tief im Herzen noch immer die Werte des Punk zu w&uuml;rdigen weiss, bin ich mir bewusst, da&szlig; es h&ouml;chste Zeit war, dass den Branchenriesen im Musik-Business endlich mal der Stinkefinger daf&uuml;r gezeigt wurde, da&szlig; sie ihre Kundschaft seit Einf&uuml;hrung des CD-Formats im Grunde genommen nur noch als Melkk&uuml;he betrachteten; da&szlig; an veralteten Preismodellen und Vertriebsstrukturen festgehalten und das Internet komplett verschlafen wurde. <br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Sid Halb" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/sid-halb.jpg" width="93" height="85"/><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Als Musiker bin ich jedoch zugleich zwischen zwei Positionen hin- und hergerissen: Einerseits hat das Internet mit seinen M&ouml;glichkeiten des Verf&uuml;gbarmachens und Vertreibens von Musik (doch sollten an dieser Stelle auch Begriffe wie "Tauschb&ouml;rsen" oder "illegale Downloads" genannt werden) den gro&szlig;en Plattenfirmen eindeutig die Grenzen ihrer verblendeten Hochpreis- und Ver&ouml;ffentlichungspolitik aufgezeigt; andererseits leiden gerade diejenigen Musiker und Labels, die wirklich noch mit Herzblut bei der Sache sind, besonders unter den daraus resultierenden schwindenden Eink&uuml;nften, da es wie im Rest des Wirtschaftslebens die Geringerverdienenden eben immer wesentlich h&auml;rter trifft, sobald der Kuchen, den es zu verteilen gibt, kleiner wird. <br /><br />Experten gehen davon aus, da&szlig; auf einen einzigen legal erworbenen Song mittlerweile 99 illegale Downloads und Kopien kommen (und darunter fallen z. B. auch solch vermeintlich harmlose Geschichten wie "mal eben ein Album f&uuml;r einen Freund auf CD brennen"). Das bedeutet, da&szlig; K&uuml;nstler und Plattenfirmen lediglich f&uuml;r 1 % ihres Outputs &uuml;berhaupt noch Geld erhalten: Auf dieser Basis l&auml;sst sich auf Dauer leider kein Gesch&auml;ft betreiben. Das ist auch der Grund, warum unser bisheriges Label Reartone Records es sich momentan nicht mehr leisten kann, das lang erwartete Antichrisis-Album "The Legacy Remains" auf den Markt zu bringen.<br /><br />F&uuml;r ein Label von der Gr&ouml;&szlig;e von Reartone Records gibt es derzeit keine M&ouml;glichkeit, in einem wirtschaftlich vern&uuml;nftigen Rahmen mit Produktionen von unbekannten Bands noch einigerma&szlig;en kostendeckend zu arbeiten - von Gewinnerzielung ganz zu schweigen. Daher kann ich die Entscheidung von Reartone Records bestens verstehen, auch wenn es mir nat&uuml;rlich leid tut, da&szlig; "The Legacy Remains" somit unver&ouml;ffentlicht bleiben wird und die Arbeit, die wir uns in den letzten Jahren mit diesem Album gemacht hatten, somit umsonst war.<br /><br />Reartone Records kann es sich - zumindest, so lange die derzeitige Situation im Musikbusiness anh&auml;lt - nicht l&auml;nger leisten, neue Alben relativ unbekannter Bands auf den Markt zu bringen. Mit diesem Problem steht Reartone Records allerdings keinesfalls alleine da: Selbst ein &auml;u&szlig;erst erfolgreiches Label wie Touch and Go Records aus Chikago, das z. B. mit TV On The Radio, CocoRosie und den Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3 Bands unter Vertrag hat, die bereits den kommerziellen Durchbruch geschafft hatten, muss seine Vertriebst&auml;tigkeiten aufgrund der eingangs beschriebenen Situation wieder drastisch einschr&auml;nken. Mac McCaughan (Merge Records) kommentierte dies treffenderweise mit den Worten: "Wenn eine Firma, die alles richtig gemacht hat, in diesem Gesch&auml;ft nicht &uuml;berleben kann ... wer dann?"<br /><br />Doch was bedeutet dies f&uuml;r Antichrisis? Zun&auml;chst einmal wird es in naher Zukunft vermutlich keinerlei CD oder Album-Ver&ouml;ffentlichungen mehr geben (es sei denn, ein anderes Label w&auml;re daran interessiert, Antichrisis unter Vertrag zu nehmen). Wie bereits erw&auml;hnt, kann ich die Entscheidung von Reartone Records voll und ganz nachvollziehen, und genau aus diesem Grund fand die Trennung von Reartone Records auch in gegenseitigem Einvernehmen statt. Sollten sich die wirtschaftlichen Voraussetzungen grundlegend &auml;ndern, g&auml;be es sowohl f&uuml;r Reartone Records als auch f&uuml;r Antichrisis somit keinerlei Hinderungsgrund, die bisherige gute Zusammenarbeit fortzusetzen.<br /><br />In der Zwischenzeit (oder f&uuml;r die weitere Zukunft) werde ich Antichrisis wie in den Tagen von "Cantara Anachoreta" als 1-Mann-Projekt weiterf&uuml;hren, d. h. ich werde wieder alles inklusive Mix und Produktion im Alleingang machen und die Resultate dieser Arbeit in Form von Streaming Audio auf www.antichrisis.net ver&ouml;ffentlichen. Momentan fehlt mir noch ein funktionierendes Konzept f&uuml;r den Online-Vertrieb dieser Songs, da mir die gegenw&auml;rtig verf&uuml;gbaren L&ouml;sungen noch zu kompliziert und un&uuml;bersichtlich erscheinen, doch sobald sich eine neue, einfach funktionierende sowie zeit- und kostensparende Vertriebsm&ouml;glichkeit abzeichnen sollte, werde ich mich selbstverst&auml;ndlich bem&uuml;hen, eine entsprechende M&ouml;glichkeit zum Erwerb der Songs zu schaffen.<br /><br />Nichtsdestotrotz habe ich meine Zweifel daran, da&szlig; es von Antichrisis jemals wieder Alben im traditionellen Sinne geben wird, denn in Zeiten des Online-Vertriebs ist das Album als solches eine nicht mehr zeitgem&auml;&szlig;e Ver&ouml;ffentlichungsform. Meiner Ansicht nach liegt die Zukunft in der Ver&ouml;ffentlichung einzelner Songs und bei denen der H&ouml;rer dann selbst entscheiden kann, ob sie ihm gefallen und ob er sie somit k&auml;uflich erwerben m&ouml;chte. Selbstverst&auml;ndlich sollte es dem H&ouml;rer v&ouml;llig freigestellt sein, aus diesen einzeln gekauften Songs ein individuelles Album zusammenzustellen und auf CD zu brennen, sofern er dies m&ouml;chte. Im Vertrieb digitaler Daten &uuml;ber das Internet liegt nun mal die Zukunft jeglicher Multimedia-Inhalte, ganz egal, ob man dies nun guthei&szlig;t oder nicht - doch leider stecken diese Vertriebsformen noch immer in ihren Kinderschuhen.<br /><br />Somit wird "The Legacy Remains" wohl niemals ver&ouml;ffentlicht werden, aber Antichrisis wird auf jeden Fall als Solo-Projekt weiter bestehen. Ich werde trotz dieser Entwicklung nicht damit aufh&ouml;ren, Songs zu schreiben und aufzunehmen, denn dazu ist die Musik viel zu sehr ein Teil meiner selbst. Nat&uuml;rlich k&ouml;nnte ich das Songmaterial von "The Legacy Remains" auch alleine ferigstellen, doch das w&uuml;rde sich f&uuml;r mich nicht richtig anf&uuml;hlen, denn dieses Album war das Resultat der Zusammenarbeit einer Band, die nun leider nicht mehr existiert, und es w&auml;re meinen vormaligen Bandmitgliedern gegen&uuml;ber unfair, dieses gemeinsam erarbeitete Material im Alleingang zu ver&ouml;ffentlichen.<br /><br />Dass die Band nicht mehr weiterbestehen kann, hat schlicht und einfach damit zu tun, da&szlig; wir nie eine Live-, sondern eine Studio-Band waren: Wir trafen uns im Bluehouse Studio von Reartone Records, um dort an den Songs zu arbeiten und aufzunehmen, doch da es diese Option nun nicht mehr gibt und alle vormaligen Bandmitglieder sehr weit verstreut leben, bedeutet das Ende der Zusammenarbeit mit Reartone Records leider auch das Ende der derzeitgen Bandkonstellation. Nichtsdestotrotz freut es mich, da&szlig; sich sowohl N&auml;x (Uilleann Pipes) als auch Frank (Vocals) sofort bereit erkl&auml;rten, auch an k&uuml;nftigen Songs weiter mitzuwirken; es wird also trotz des Solo-Projekt-Charakters, den Antichrisis von nun an hat, immer noch Gastmusiker zu h&ouml;ren geben.<br /><br />Bei dieser Gelegenheit m&ouml;chte ich allen ehemaligen Bandmitgliedern meine tiefe Dankbarkeit aussprechen: Jens Bachmann f&uuml;r seine herausragende Gitarrenarbeit und Produzentent&auml;tigkeit, Tilo Rockstroh f&uuml;r seine genialen Keyboard-Arrangements und makellose Tontechnik sowie Jens-Nils Kuge f&uuml;r sein &uuml;beraus pr&auml;zises und fantastisches Schlagzeugspiel: Sie alle haben Antichrisis auf "Perfume" und "A Legacy of Love Mark II" auf unnachahmliche Weise gepr&auml;gt, und ich bin mir sicher, da&szlig; auch "The Legacy Remains" erneut unter Beweis gestellt h&auml;tte, welche gro&szlig;artige und wunderbare Musiker sie sind: Es war mir gro&szlig;e Freude und Ehre, mit ihnen arbeiten zu d&uuml;rfen!<br /><br />Dar&uuml;ber hinaus m&ouml;chte ich nat&uuml;rlich auch Steffi Breiting herzlich f&uuml;r ihre Bereitschaft, bei Antichrisis mitzuwirken, danken, auch wenn letztendlich keine Aufnahmen mehr mit ihr zustande kamen.<br /><br />F&uuml;r Antichrisis hat ein neues Kapitel begonnen: Zur&uuml;ck zu den Wurzeln, sozusagen; und diese Wurzeln werden verdammt nach Songs wie "Ocean's Too Wide" oder "Crossing The Line" klingen, die ihr schon jetzt in der Musik-Sektion dieser Website h&ouml;ren k&ouml;nnt. Und da ich mich in Zukunft nicht mehr um Albumproduktionen oder Studiotermine k&uuml;mmern muss, werden schon bald weitere Taten folgen.<br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Future of Antichrisis &#x26; The Lost Album</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><category>News</category><dc:date>2009-06-04T00:10:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-170</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-170</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Bob Dylan was definitely right when he sang "The times, they are a-changin'" in 1964... and if it comes to music business, times have changed pretty much within the last few years. Having grown-up in the heydays of Punk, I totally and wholeheartedly agree that this change was indeed necessary, that it's about time that greedy record companies have to worry about their prospective revenues and realise that they cannot treat their customers like cash cows. <br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Sid" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/sid.jpg" width="266" height="279"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Being a musician myself, I'm torn between the two sides: on the one hand the internet and its possibilities of sharing and distributing music (but if we want to call a spade a spade we should include a term like "illegal downloading", too!) has turned out to be nothing less than a big "Up Yours!" towards the record companies' pricing policy, but on the other hand it has also caused a lot of severe problems for the kind of really devoted musicians and labels trying to make a living from what they're doing.<br /><br />Experts affirm that today there's only 1 % of legal purchasing of songs and albums, which means that there is only 1 in a 100 songs that the artist or his record company actually gets paid for - and you can't run a business on that terms. That's why our label Reartone Records simply can't afford to release the long awaited Antichrisis album "The Legacy Remains": there's absolutely no chance of breaking even with new independent releases of that kind, hence I totally agree and understand Reartone's decision although I certainly regret that "The Legacy Remains" will now become some kind of "lost album", and that all the work we've put into its production so far was in vain.<br /><br />Reartone cannot release any new albums as long as the aformentioned situation stays like this - and that doesn't affect Reartone Records only: Even a successful independent company like Chikago's Touch & Go Records with bands like TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs or CocoRosie has to reduce its output because they just can't cover the costs any longer. Mac McCaughan of Merge Records commented this with the words: "If a company that did everything the right way can't survive in this environment ... then who can?"<br /><br />But what does all that mean for Antichrisis? Well, there won't be any CD or album releases in the near future at all (unless another label would be interested in signing Antichrisis). As aforesaid, I can understand Reartone's decision and I totally agree with them, hence there's no bad blood between Reartone and Antichrisis. If the economoical situation should change, there's no obstacle for resuming our collaboration. <br /><br />In the meantime (or for the future - who knows) , Antichrisis will be stripped down to being a 1-man-project again like it used to be in the early days of "Cantara Anachoreta". I'll be doing everything on my own again including mixing and production, and as soon as new songs are finished I'll make them available on this website via streaming audio. I don't have any idea at the moment if there'll be a way making these new tracks available for purchase, because I don't like any of the current online distribution possibilities for independent artists: there are too many different internet platforms with too many different terms and conditions, which makes it difficult to work time- and cost-saving. But as soon as there's a proper solution on the horizon, I'll be trying to provide a good and easy way for acquiring Antichrisis' songs by purchase.  <br /><br />Anyway, I doubt that there will ever be an album by Antichrisis again, as I really don't believe in albums any more: they are a thing of the past, and the future's definitley in releasing separate songs as soon as they are ready and leave it to the customer which individual song he or she wants to have - it should be up to them if they want to burn it on CD or not. Online distribution is the future of any multimedia content, whether we like it or not - but it's all still in its infancy!<br /><br />So "The Legacy Remains" will possibly never be released and Antichrisis will be reduced to being a 1-man-project again. I definitely won't stop making music, because it's simply such a vital and important part of my life. Of course I could now finish the songs of "The Legacy Remains" on my own, but to tell you the truth it just wouldn't feel right, because these songs were the collective achievement of a band that unfortunately doesn't exist any longer, and it would be quite unfair towards my former band members if I'd release those songs single-handedly now.<br /><br />The reason that the band has now ceased to exist is due to the fact that we've never been a live group but a studio band. And as all band members are living far away from each other in different parts of Germany, the only occasion we got together was when we met in Reartone's Bluehouse studio for rehearsing and recording. So the end of the collaboration with Reartone Records implies the end of the studio band Antichrisis, too. But I'm glad that both Naex (uilleann pipes) and Frank (vocals) have assured that they would love to contribute their input to Antichrisis in the future, too, so there'll be still some guest muscians around!<br /><br />Nevertheless my deepest gratitude goes to Jens Bachmann (former guitarist and producer), Tilo Rockstroh (former keyboarder and sound engineer) and Jens-Nils Kuge (former Drummer): these guys did such a great job for Antichrisis on "Perfume" and "A Legacy of Love Mark II", and I'm sure that "The Legacy Remains" would have confirmed what outstanding and unique musicians they are. It was an honour and great pleasure to work with them, and I sincerely appreciate the time we've been recording together.<br /><br />A new chapter of Antichrisis is aborning - back to the basics, in a manner of speaking, and these basics will sound a lot like "Ocean's Too Wide" or "Crossing The Line" (already available on this website's Music section). And as I don't have to focus on album productions and studio sessions any more, there'll probably be some new tracks here quite soon... so stay tuned!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/Boscastle"><img src="http://twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/follow_me-b.png" alt="Follow Boscastle on Twitter"/></a><br /><a href="http://flattr.com/thing/2426/Antichrisis-Band-Website" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" title="Flattr this" border="0" /></a><br /><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Stoppt weibliche Genitalverst&#xfc;mmelung</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2009-02-16T09:09:26+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-169</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-169</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Leider ein wirklich wichtiges Anliegen von <a href="http://www.frauenrechte.de/tdf/" rel="external">Terre des Femmes</a>. Weitere Informationen zu dem Thema findet ihr in diesem <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,607291,00.html" rel="external">Artikel</a> und nat&uuml;rlich auf der Website von <a href="http://www.frauenrechte.de/tdf/" rel="external">Terre des Femmes</a>.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQOuQj923fM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQOuQj923fM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Introducing Alchemy</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2009-01-18T15:37:27+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-167</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2009#unique-entry-id-167</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last year was definitely a good year for softsynth-aficionados like me: first we had G-Force's significant update to their famous M-Tron called <a href="http://www.gforcesoftware.com/ins_mtronpro.php" rel="external">M-Tron Pro</a>, which offers much more sounds and tweaking possibilities than one could have ever expected from a Mellotron-replica, then came Spectrasonics with their groundbreaking <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/omnisphere.html" rel="external">Omnisphere</a> (which will receive another important <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/news/namm2009-omni-sound-update.php" rel="external">update</a> on January 26th with more than 2000 new patches - and don't ask me when I'll ever find the time to check them all out!), and finally in December <a href="http://www.camelaudio.com/index.php" rel="external">Camel Audio</a> released their long awaited sample manipulation synthesizer Alchemy, which I had the chance to work with during the last two weeks.<br /><br />First I should confess that building sounds from scratch isn't exactly my cup of tea: I love to have a proper library of inspiring sounds that I can tweak and work with, and in these terms Alchemy is simply gorgeous even if not as packed and well-assorted as Omnisphere, but then Alchemy doesn't require 40 GB of free space on your hard drive like Omnisphere does, instead it just asks for reasonable 2 GB.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Logic Pro" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/logic-pro.jpg" width="480" height="308"/><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Alchemy is equiped with over 300 presets sorted in categories like Arpeggiated, Bass, Brass, Drums, Guitars, Keys, Leads, Loops, Mallets, Organs, Pads, Sound Effects, Soundscapes, Strings, Synth, Vocals and Woodwinds, but don't expect any "traditional" sounds: that's definitely not what Alchemy is all about, moreover it aims to create new and outstanding sounds - no wonder, because it allows you to tweak and manipulate every aspect of any given sound, and best of all it also allows you to import your own audio files and put them through its additive, spectral or granular grinder... only the sky is the limit of what you can do to any sound snippet loitering on your hard drive! To find out more about Alchemy's numerous possibilities take a look at Camel Audio's tutorial videos here. <br /><br />I was most impressed by Alchemy's arpeggiated sounds, its drums, pads, loops and strings: these sounds are so unique and inspiring that I could hardly stop myself from fiddling about with them for hours and hours - really great stuff! I only wished the guys at Camel Audio would have equiped Alchemy with more than just 10 drum sets, because each of them is a case of sui generis and high musical quality.<br /><br />Alchemy's sound effects and soundscapes on the other hand are the categories that I won't have much use for, but then it's a bit unfair to judge strange sounds like these after I've worked my way through Omnisphere's sound library just a few weeks ago: Sure Alchemy's soundscapes and sound effects do sound interesting and vivid, and there's also a lot of morphing going on, but I think Omnisphere remains simply unexcelled concerning weird and eerie atmospheres and sounds - but keep in mind that someone else might see (or hear) things different, because these categories are of much more use for composers & producers of movie scores and computer game tracks than for your average and humble musician.<br /><br />All in all Alchemy is an extraordinary and wonderful softsynth offering myriads of editing possibilities that even Omnisphere can't provide. It works like a charm, contains hundreds of unique and inspiring sounds, is expandable (CamelAudio are currently offering 2 <a href="http://www.camelaudio.com/shop.php" rel="external">expansion sets</a> on their website and there will be more to come) and put up for sale at more than reasonable price. It only took me just one hour until I had to realise that Alchemy will become one of my favourite softsynths! The only problem is that after working with Alchemy, most of my other software synthesizers do sound so bloody boooooring...<br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Seasons Greetinx</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-12-23T19:54:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-166</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-166</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font:17px &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#DFC675;font-weight:bold; ">A very merry Yultide and a Happy New Year to all our fans out there - and thanks very much for your ongoing support: Hope to see you back again in 2009!</span><span style="font-size:9px; color:#E2CDC0;"><br /></span><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="IMG" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/img.jpg" width="316" height="428"/><br /><br />And as this is the end of the year, here are my favourite songs of 2008:<br /><br />Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream<br />Duffy - Rockferry<br />Tindersticks - Boobar Come Back To Me<br />Kings of Leon: Sex On Fire<br />Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox<br />Santogold - You'll Find A Way<br />The Ting Tings - That&rsquo;s Not My Name<br />The Raveonettes - Yound And Beautiful<br />Vampire Weekend - M79<br />Glasvegas - Geraldine<br />Moby - Disco Lies<br />Bloc Party - Mercury<br />Dido - Grafton Street<br />Anne Clark - Full Moon<br />Amy MacDonald - This Is The Life<br />The Walkmen - In The New Year<br />Portishead - The Rip<br />David Byrne & Brian Eno - Home<br />Soko - I'll Kill Her</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Full Moon Pictures</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-11-16T02:53:14+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-165</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-165</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Just a few impressions from a beautiful full moon&rsquo;s stroll that <a href="http://web.mac.com/ayuma" rel="external">Ayuma</a> and me did just a few days ago. The pictures were taken in our village and in a nearby little town called Herzogenaurach.<br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://homepage.mac.com/antichrisis/BannerZest/bzLoader.js"></script><noscript><p style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;padding:1em;">Ihr Browser unterst&uuml;tzt kein JavaScript oder JavaScript ist deaktiviert.</p></noscript><div id="SWBZ2D09E42FBCFE40CEB4EC"></div><div id="LKBZ2D09E42FBCFE40CEB4EC"></div><br /><br />]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Omnisphere is here</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-10-30T00:22:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-164</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-164</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Spectrasonics, one of my favourite software companies, has recently released their new virtual instrument Omnisphere, which is really some kind of monster in a very positive way: It is the most inspiring and genuine software instrument I&rsquo;ve ever come across, and within only a few days it has become almost indispensable for my musical work with Antichrisis.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Omni" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/omni.jpg" width="439" height="415"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Omnisphere comes with a vast core library of over 40 GB with thousands of sounds that can be tweaked, combined and manipulated in any way you want. The sounds are not just your average workstation core library sounds, instead some of them are entering spectacular new territories like f. e. the burning piano, which is - as you might have guessed - the sound of a piano being set on fire (which is exactly what those weirdos at Spectrasonics did to achive that special sound). Also the integrated arpeggiator is just brilliant and very easy to handle, the FX-Rack contains everyt bloody effect section you ever wanted and Omnisphere&rsquo;s sound browser is simply one of a kind because it allows you to actually tag, sort and find the sounds that you&rsquo;re looking for, which is something that no other virtual instrument has come up with so far.<br /><br />You see, I&rsquo;m really excited about Omnisphere and so I can only recommend it to every songwriter, producer or musician around. Check out Spectrasonics&rsquo; website for more information <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/omnisphere.html" rel="external">here</a>.<br /><br />By the way: G-Force have released a new version of their famous <a href="http://www.gforcesoftware.com/ins_mtronpro.php" rel="external">M-Tron</a>, which is a very great and useful virtual instrument, too. It is my favourite &ldquo;secret weapon&ldquo; for those moments, when most digital sounds are sounding a bit too clean: those old Mellotron soundbanks add exactly the kind of vintage dirt that will make your songs breathe!<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="MTRONPRO1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/mtronpro1.jpg" width="248" height="166"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Next thing I&rsquo;m looking forward too is Camel Audio&rsquo;s new synthesizer <a href="http://www.camelaudio.com/Alchemy.php" rel="external">Alchemy</a>: it&rsquo;s not released yet, but the teasers on their website do sound amazing.<br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Tracks</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-09-05T21:33:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-163</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As promised a few weeks ago I just added two very early Antichrisis-tracks (demo versions of 'Nevermore' and  'Nightswan') from the archive. Strange stuff, indeed - but for more infos you&rsquo;d better click <a href="(null)/(null)" rel="self" title="Music">here</a>.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Nevermore" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/Nevermore.jpg" width="159" height="325"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Back from our Honeymoon</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-08-23T19:35:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-162</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-162</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://web.mac.com/jumapost" rel="external">Ayuma</a> and me had a really wonderful wedding in Nuremberg (strange enough it took place on Lammas with a New Moon and a Solar Eclipse - that&rsquo;s what I call Good Omens!) with an amazing party the day after (thanks to all our friends and acquaintances for making our wedding party such a great and beautiful event) as well as a more than brilliant Honeymoon in the Swabian Highlands (special thanks to Franky&rsquo;s in Tuebingen for providing a splendid and hilaious evening). <br /><br />As soon as we&rsquo;ve returned from our honeymoon I&rsquo;ve started working on some new tracks: one of them is called ˮCrossing the Line&ldquo; and can be found on this website&rsquo;s Music-section - hope you&rsquo;ll like it (even if its lyrics don&rsquo;t deal with the subject of marriage at all).<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Marriage" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/Marriage.jpg" width="210" height="443"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Handfasting</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-07-27T21:29:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-161</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-161</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been pretty busy during the last weeks working on lots of new songs and preparing things for our wedding day. Yes, <a href="http://web.mac.com/jumapost" rel="external">Ayuma</a> and me are getting married on Lammas, and I'm really looking forward to the ceremony as well as to our wedding festivity the next day... and of course to making this noble woman, entrancing inamorata and faithful friend my wife!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Jutta4" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry161_1.jpg" width="335" height="278"/><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">I&rsquo;ve also started digitalizing all my old tapes, which means that heaps of previously unreleased material still has to make its transition from ye good ole analogue tape to the digital shelves of my Mac. As soon as everything&rsquo;s indexed, transformed into mp3 (Sorry for that, Harry: I know you would have preferred Ogg Vorbis for some strange reasons, although I think you just love to have audio data with a file extension that bears resemblance to the name of a mad Klingon high priest!) and thoroughly inspected in terms of aural tolerance, I&rsquo;ll be putting a reasonable amount of Antichrisis&rsquo; early stuff on this website.<br /><br />In the meantime I&rsquo;ve received some very nice and interesting emails from Arseny from Moscow and Robert Negut from Bucharest which I haven&rsquo;t replied to yet: Just a little more patience, guys - as soon as Ayuma and me have returned from our honeymoon, I&rsquo;ll be returning to you, too.<br /><br />I&rsquo;ve also had a few requests for my current top ten which accidently turned into a bloated top sixteen - but that&rsquo;s personal charting for you:<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br />Soko - I&rsquo;ll Kill Her<br />The Killers - When You Were Young<br />Royksopp: What Else Is there?<br />Silver Jews: Suffering Jukebox<br />Flooging Molly - Punch Drunk Grinning Soul<br />Attila the Stockbroker - And I Wont&rsquo; Run Away<br />The Raveonettes: The Christmas Song<br />Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away<br />Jens Lekman - Black Cab<br />Santogold: Say Aha<br />Midnight Choir - The Train<br />Bruce Springsteen - Long Walk Home<br />The Pack: King Of Kings<br />The Monks: He Went Down To The Sea<br />The Thermals: An Ear For Baby<br />The Mountain Goats: Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">And one last thing: Next month we&rsquo;ll be proceeding with the recording sessions to 'The Legacy Remains' with Steffi, our new singer, so this long postponed album will be on its way, too.<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Free Tibet</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-03-15T15:33:14+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-160</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-160</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The only answer to China's oppression of the Tibetean people would be:<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;">1. Cessation of all trade relations between Europe and China<br />2. Boykott of the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />It's time for any European politician to show which side we're on: either support a nation's struggle for self-determination and democracy, or forget about freedom and democracy in the name of market globalisation!<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Tibet" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry160_1.jpg" width="405" height="409"/><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Please support campaigns for Free Tibet at <a href="http://www.freetibet.org/" rel="external" title="Free Tibet">http://www.freetibet.org/</a> or <a href="http://www.tibet.org/" rel="external" title="Tibet">http://www.tibet.org/</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Track</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2008-02-18T21:14:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-159</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-159</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We've published a new track in our "Music" section: It's called "Ocean's too Wide", and it's from the pre-production of our forthcoming album "The Legacy Remains". For more infos click <a href="(null)/(null)" rel="self" title="Music">here</a>.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Sea Live 2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry159_1.jpg" width="192" height="398"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News&#x2c; January 2008</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2008-01-11T22:38:10+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-157</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2008#unique-entry-id-157</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Finally we've found a new female vocalist for Antichrisis: Her name is Steffi Breiting, and we are most delighted to have her in the band. Steffi is an experienced singer and has worked with a lot of bands, her latest project being "Moods of Ally" (see also <a href="http://www.myspace.com/moodsofally" rel="external" title="Moods Of Ally">http://www.myspace.com/moodsofally</a>). Steffi's entry means that we will at last be able to proceed with the recording sessions of our forthcoming and long anticipated album "The Legacy Remains", hence I am confident that this album (which got delayed several times due to the changes in Antichrisis' line-up in the past) will see its definite release this year.<br /><br />Endlich haben wir eine neue S&auml;ngerin f&uuml;r Antichrisis gefunden: Es ist Steffi Breiting, und wir sind hocherfreut, sie mit an Bord zu haben. Steffi ist eine erfahrene S&auml;ngerin, die bereits in vielen unterschiedlichen Projekten und Bands mitgewirkt hat, unter anderem auch bei "Moods of Ally" (mehr Informationen dazu unter <a href="http://www.myspace.com/moodsofally" rel="external" title="Moods Of Ally">http://www.myspace.com/moodsofally</a>). Dank Steffi k&ouml;nnen wir die Aufnahmen zu unserem bevorstehenden Album "The Legacy Remains" endlich fortsetzen, weshalb ich auch zuversichtlich bin, da&szlig; dieses lang erwartete Album, dessen Ver&ouml;ffentlichung sich aufgrund der Besetzungswechsel in der Vergangenheit immer wieder verz&ouml;gert hat, in diesem Jahr endlich fertiggestellt werden wird. <span style="font:14px Times, Georgia, Courier, serif; "><br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Steffi2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry157_1.jpg" width="216" height="352"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Free Burma</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2007-10-04T05:27:04+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-156</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-156</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Please visit this <a href="http://free-burma.org/index.php" rel="external">website</a> and support the people in Burma!<br /><br /><!-- Free Burma! Image --><br /><a href="http://www.free-burma.org" target="_blank"><img src="http://freeburma.s3.amazonaws.com/free_burma_03.jpg" alt="Free Burma!" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End Free Burma! Image --><br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Free Burma 041.JPG auf Flickr - Fotosharing!" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry156_1.jpg" width="500" height="332"/><br /><br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="1480047492_5b9d07af05" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry156_2.jpg" width="500" height="376"/><br /><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Female Vocalist?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2007-08-24T13:46:01+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-155</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-155</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I've noticed that Katja doesn't appear on your website any more. Did she leave the band and does that mean that Antichrisis is without a female vocalist again? If so, have you already found a new vocalist or will the new album be without female vocals?</span><br /><br />Sid: Yes, Katja has left the band a few weeks ago for personal and musical reasons, but without any hard feelings. We're still good friends and she's focusing on her work with <a href="http://www.gaia-returns.de/" rel="external">Gaia Returns</a> now, thus we've started looking for a new female vocalist, as the interplay of male and female characters has somehow become indispensable for capturing the spirit of many of our songs. Luckily a friend of a friend (big thanks to Markus Eck for his procurement) recommended someone he was sure to be just the right replacement, which is why I'm already in contact with the possibly new Antichrisis songstress - but we'll let you know as soon as everything's wrapped up. Anyway, "The Legacy Remains" will definitely contain female vocals...<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="art1reindeer" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry155_1.jpg" width="257" height="173"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Schlosshof-Festival 2007</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2007-08-21T20:59:19+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-154</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-154</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Meines Wissens war das <a href="http://www.schlosshof-festival.de/" rel="external">Schlosshof-Festival</a> die erste Veranstaltung dieser Art in H&ouml;chstadt an der Aisch, so dass diesem Mittelalterfest zwangsl&auml;ufig die Professionalit&auml;t der etablierten Festivals abging: Alles war eine Nummer kleiner, &uuml;berschaubarer und famili&auml;rer - doch daf&uuml;r brachte man dort erstaunlicherweise einen wesentlich besseren Sound zustande, als dies auf den Festivals in Abenberg und Veldenstein der Fall gewesen war.<br /><br />Wie immer trudelten meine S&uuml;&szlig;e und ich mit etwas Versp&auml;tung ein, so dass wie den Opener <a href="http://www.nachtgeschrei.de" rel="external">Nachtgeschrei</a> verpasst hatten. Als wir den Schlosshof betraten, waren <a href="http://www.merlons.de/news/index.html" rel="external">Merlons Lichter</a> bereits auf der B&uuml;hne und gaben sich redlich M&uuml;he, liessen das Publikum jedoch weitestgehend kalt, was an der leicht verungl&uuml;ckten Performance der Band lag: Da S&auml;nger und Drehleierspieler PG ist nicht gerade der mitreissendste Frontmann aller Zeiten ist und die Restlichter - mit Ausnahme der S&auml;ngerin - so verloren wie bei Stromausfall im Proberaum agierten, wollte der Funke nicht richtig &uuml;berspringen. Da halfen auch die hilflosen Tanzeinlagen der S&auml;ngerin nichts, die dank ihres peinlichen silbernen Fl&uuml;gel-Umhangs des &Ouml;fteren wie eine orientierungslos herumtaumelnde Alufolien-Fledermaus wirkte... Eigentlich schade, denn die Musik dieser Erlanger Combo setzte sich ansonsten wohltuend vom &uuml;blichen In-Subway-Extremo-Corvus-Sound anderer Mittelalter-Bands ab, doch infolge der farblosen Darbietung verpuffte deren Wirkung g&auml;nzlich!<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Feuerschwanz1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry154_1.jpg" width="302" height="178"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Diesbez&uuml;glich sah es <a href="http://www.feuerschwanz.de" rel="external">Feuerschwanz</a>, die auf Merlons Lichter folgten, gleich eine ganze Ecke anders aus: Schon beim Soundcheck sorgten sie f&uuml;r mehr Stimmung im Publikum, als die Merlons w&auml;hrend ihres gesamten Auftritts erzeugten. Zugegebenerma&szlig;en ist eine Band mit einem Motto wie "Met & Miezen" in diskursiver Hinsicht mehr als nur peinlich; wer Schandmauls "Herren der Winde" zur n&auml;chstliegenden Flatulenz-Ballade umfunktioniert und dar&uuml;ber hinaus den Gro&szlig;teil des eigenen lyrischen Oeuvres deutlich unterhalb der mittelalterlichen G&uuml;rtellinie ansiedelt, sollte eigentlich gnadenlos gedisst werden - doch seien wir mal ehrlich: AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Mot&ouml;rhead oder ZZ Top sind auch nicht gerade literarische Sch&ouml;ngeister und werden dennoch toleriert und anerkannt - und Feuerschwanz verbreiteten trotz ihres Schl&uuml;pfrigkeitsfaktors von +10 auf der nach oben offenen Debilit&auml;tsskala derma&szlig;en gute Laune, dass man sich dem einfach nicht entziehen konnte: Also hinfort mit allen D&uuml;nkeln und hehren Ansp&uuml;chen, dem fr&ouml;hlich gr&ouml;hlenden Nachbarn zugeprostet und abtanzen, bis der Medicus kommt!<br /><br />Feuerschwanz machten jedenfalls alles richtig, was Merlons Lichter zuvor falsch gemacht hatten: Die ganze Band ging gnadenlos nach vorne und spielte f&uuml;r das Publikum, das im Gegenzug begeistert auf dieses Powerplay reagierte - und wenn Feuerschwanz so weitermachen, werden sie bei den Festivals der n&auml;chsten Jahre wom&ouml;glich noch Headliner-Status bekommen!<br /><br />Danach war <a href="http://www.ericfish.de/" rel="external">Eric Fish</a> dran, der mir solo wesentlich besser gef&auml;llt als mit Subway to Sally: Eigentlich macht er astreinen Liedermacher-Folk, bei dem er meistenteils englischsprachigen Songs sozialkritische deutsche Texte verpasst: Das hat zwar rein gar nix mit Mittelalter zu tun, doch weil er eben der Subway to Sally-Frontmann ist, h&ouml;rt ihm das Gothic-Publikum aufmerksam zu, das die Originalversionen solcher St&uuml;cke wie "Summer in the City" oder "Rocking in the Free World" vermutlich noch nie zuvor geh&ouml;rt hat und jeden langhaarigen Stra&szlig;enmusiker, der dieselben Songs mit der gleichen Inbrunst vortr&auml;gt, vermutlich kaltl&auml;chelnd ignorieren w&uuml;rde...<br /><br />Jedenfalls war es genau die richtige musikalische Untermalung, um sich mit Freunden zu unterhalten und ein Bierchen zu trinken; vom Schauwert her ging diese Art der Darbietung auf der Festivalb&uuml;hne leider ein wenig unter, denn ein akustischer Set dieser Art ist nun mal eher f&uuml;r kleine verr&auml;ucherte Musik-Clubs oder Kneipen geeignet, wo dann auch die entsprechende Stimmung aufkommen kann - vielleicht sollte Eric gelegentlich einfach mal im Strohalm in Erlangen vorbeischauen?<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Schlosshof" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry154_2.jpg" width="244" height="179"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Nach einer kleineren Umbaupause waren dann <a href="http://www.saltatio-mortis.com/" rel="external">Saltatio Mortis</a> angesagt: Diese hatten mich schon auf dem Veldensteiner Festival einige Wochen zuvor genervt, und obwohl deren S&auml;nger heute besser bei Stimme war, hinterliessen sie auch diesmal wieder den Eindruck einer Band, die nur dem Trend hinterherl&auml;uft und g&auml;ngigen Klischees zu entsprechen versucht, anstatt etwas Neuartiges zu kreieren oder Eigenst&auml;ndigkeit an den Tag zu legen. So boten Saltatio Mortis auch an diesem Abend wieder ein buntes Potpourri musikalischer Beliebigkeiten, das sie jedoch durch eine gigantische flackernde Lightshow aufzuwerten versuchten, bei der jedoch derma&szlig;en hektisch zu Werke gegangen wurde, dass man f&uuml;r die etwaigen Epileptiker unter den Zuschauern nur beten konnte und sich unweigerlich fragte, welche Drogen der Mann am Lichtmixer wohl eingeworfen hatte.<br /><br />Da es mittlerweile recht k&uuml;hl geworden war, beschlossen wir, vorzeitig nach Hause zu fahren und bekamen daher von den Headlinern des Abends, <a href="http://www.fiddlers.de/" rel="external">Fiddler's Green</a>, nichts mehr mit - aber mit dieser Band ist es sowieso so eine Sache: W&uuml;rde man Bands die The Pogues, die Whisky Priests, The Men They Couldn't Hang, die Oysterband oder auch die Dropkick Murphys nicht kennen - ja, dann w&uuml;rde man Fiddler's Green h&ouml;chstwahrscheinlich richtig gut finden... doch da man dummerweise all dieses Bands kennt, beschleicht einen bei Fiddler's Green das gleiche Gef&uuml;hl als wenn man beim Fr&uuml;hst&uuml;ck statt Nutella einen NoName- Haselnuss-Schoko-Brotaufstrich vorgesetzt bekommt: Egal, wie dick man ihn auf aufstreicht oder was alles auf dem Glas steht - er kommt einfach nicht ans Original heran!<br /><br />Fazit: Es war trotz allem ein sehr sch&ouml;nes und intimes Festival, das n&auml;chstes Jahr hoffentlich wieder eine Fortsetzung findet -  uns hat es jedenfalls verdammt gut gefallen!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Veldensteiner Festival 2007</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2007-07-22T05:43:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-153</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-153</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Und wieder ging es auf ein Mittelalter-Festival: Diesmal war <a href="http://www.feuertanz-festival.de/veldenstein2007/fotos_veldensteiner_festival_2007/" rel="external">Burg Veldenstein in Neuhaus an der Pegnitz</a> angesagt, wo es zwar ein wenig kleiner und intimer zuging als auf dem Abenberger Feuertanz-Festival vor ein paar Wochen, doch nichtsdestotrotz herrschte auch hier eine &auml;u&szlig;erst angenehme Atmosph&auml;re.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Jutta1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry153_1.jpg" width="234" height="198"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Wie &uuml;blich waren meine S&uuml;&szlig;e und ich etwas zu sp&auml;t dran, so da&szlig; wir - nachdem wir unser Lager auf dem Festival-Campingplatz aufgeschlagen hatten - nur noch das Ende des Auftritts von <a href="http://www.letzte-instanz.de/" rel="external">Letzte Instanz</a> mitbekamen. Aus diesem Grund kann ich nicht viel &uuml;ber die Band sagen, doch wer derart beherzt fortw&auml;hrend &ldquo;The Lion Sleeps Tonight&rdquo; zitiert und zu guter letzt auch noch den definitiv besten Kiss-Song aller Zeiten - n&auml;mlich &ldquo;I Was Made For Loving You&rdquo; - in einer mehr als akzeptablen Version darbietet, kann so schlecht nicht sein... <br /><br />Die danach auftretenden <a href="http://www.saltatio-mortis.com/index.php" rel="external">Saltatio Mortis</a> hingegen brachten nichts, was man nicht schon tausendmal zuvor geh&ouml;rt h&auml;tte: Harte Metal-Riffs, mittelalterliche Dudels&auml;cke sowie farblose Vocals - und alles ohne den geringsten Funken von Originalit&auml;t oder Wiedererkennungswert. Daher liessen wir uns lieber ein gutes Bier schmecken, anstatt weiter vor der B&uuml;hne herumzulungern - dort tauchten wir n&auml;mlich erst wieder auf, als es Zeit f&uuml;r meine ehemaligen Label-Kollegen (remember Ars Metalli?) <a href="http://www.reitermania.de/" rel="external">Die Apokalyptischen Reiter</a> war, und obwohl deren Musik nach wie vor nicht unbedingt meine Baustelle ist, spielten sie einen beeindruckenden Set, bei dem vor allem die Gesangsleistung des S&auml;ngers sowie das perfekte Timing der Band hervorstachen! Zwar verbreitete so manches ihrer Publikumsspielchen eher den Flair einer grenzdebilen Teenager-Geburtstagsparty, aber alles in allem war es ein &auml;u&szlig;erst unterhaltsamer Gig, der durchaus das Pr&auml;dikat wertvoll verdiente.<br /><br />Nun waren <a href="http://www.schelmish.de/all.htm" rel="external">Schelmish</a> an der Reihe, und obwohl sich der Mann am Mischpult jeglich erdenkbare M&uuml;he gab, den Sound der Band zu verunstalten, war dieser Haufen f&uuml;r mich wie auch f&uuml;r meine Freundin eindeutig das Highlight des Festivals, denn obwohl auch Schelmish mitunter einer musikalischen &ldquo;In-Extremo-fizierung&rdquo; unterlagen und die eine oder andere Nummer am Start hatten, die zu sehr auf die &uuml;blichen Mittelalter-meets-Metal-Klischees setzte, brillierte die Band mit einer derartigen Spielfreude und gnadenlosem Powerplay, da&szlig; ihr auch der offenbar v&ouml;llig taube und von allen guten Geistern verlassene Mixer nichts anhaben konnte.<br /><br />Schelmish legten all das an den Tag, woran es Bands wie Saltatio Mortis mangelt: Originelle Rhythmen, einpr&auml;gsame Songstrukturen, abwechslungsreiche Dudelsack-Melodien etc. Zwar sind auch bei dieser Band keine Gesangsvirtuosen am Start, doch w&auml;ren Schelmish die Ersten, die dies auch zugeben w&uuml;rden - und dieses Manko machten sie durch jede Menge einfallsreicher und m&auml;chtig ins Tanzbein gehender Instrumental-St&uuml;cke wett; alles in allem eine tolle und mitreissende Performance, f&uuml;r die die Band v&ouml;llig zu recht von einem hellauf begeisterten Publikum abgefeiert wurde!<br /><br />Bevor daraufhin die Headliner <a href="http://www.subwaytosally.de/start.html" rel="external">Subway to Sally</a> die B&uuml;hne betraten, ging eine l&auml;ngere Umbaupause voraus, w&auml;hrend der sich das Wetter deutlich verschlechterte - m&ouml;glicherweise hatte es schon geahnt, was sich gleich in musikalischer Hinsicht abspielen w&uuml;rde... <br /><br />Wieso Subway to Sally &uuml;ber eine solch gro&szlig;e Fangemeinde verf&uuml;gen, werde ich nie begreifen: Vermutlich hat sich das jahrelange Touren der Band bezahlt gemacht, und man kann auch keinesfalls behaupten, da&szlig; die beteiligten Musiker und Musikerinnen ihr Handwerk nicht verstehen w&uuml;rden. Doch das Aufregendste am Auftritt dieser Band blieb die effektvoll in Szene gesetzte Lightshow, wohingegen die Musik so aufregend war wie eine Nacht am Oer-Erkenschwicker Hauptbahnhof: Es war schlichtweg die komprimierteste Form musikalischer Langeweile, die ich seit langem erlebt hatte - und mit einem Mal w&uuml;nschte ich mir nichts sehnlicher, als da&szlig; ich meinen iPod mitgenommen h&auml;tte... <br /><br />Daher zogen wir uns nach der H&auml;lfte der Show und mit dem pl&ouml;tzlichen Einsetzen heftiger Regeng&uuml;sse unter den Poffertjes-Stand zur&uuml;ck und kamen wenig sp&auml;ter v&ouml;llig durchn&auml;sst, aber mit einer Flasche Holunderbeerwein bewaffnet an unserem Nachtlager an, wo wir zu den Kl&auml;nger der zuvor frisch erworbenen Schelmish-CD dem Regen lauschten und uns dabei den Wein schmecken liessen...<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Sid1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry153_2.jpg" width="241" height="181"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Fazit: Trotz des Wetterumschwungs am sp&auml;ten Abend war es ein &auml;u&szlig;erst gelungenes und gut organisiertes Festival, bei dem wir uns lediglich einen anderen Headliner gew&uuml;nscht h&auml;tten.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Serves them jolly well right</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><dc:date>2007-07-13T19:11:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-152</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Year after year people think it's big fun to be cruel to animals - just like in Pamplona, where bulls are being driven through the streets to end up as sacrifice on the altar of machismo in the arena afterwards.<br /><br />And year after year, something like this happens:<br /><p style="text-align:center;">"Several men have been badly hurt in the San Fermin<br />bull-running festival in Pamplona, northern Spain.<br /><br />The men are in hospital suffering from concussion and bruising after <br />being trampled on Friday.<br /><br />Doctors said all casualties were in a serious condition in hospital; festival officials said they were injured when they fell under the hooves of stampeding bulls while running with the herd during a nine-minute dash through city streets to the Pamplona bullring.<br />Each year thousands of people flee bulls and steers in the nine-day festival."<br /><br /><strong>In my opinion: Well done, bulls! <br /></strong><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bulls" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry152_1.jpg" width="367" height="264"/><br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Dead Toreador (1864)-1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry152_2.jpg" width="444" height="218"/><br /><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Will there be a new Antichrisis album?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2007-07-11T17:27:00+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-151</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-151</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I checked your website, but I couldn't find any information about a new album with new songs. Are you planning to release such an album and will it be available in Poland?</span><span style="font:16px AppleGaramond-Book; color:#0000DF;"><br /></span><span style="font:16px AppleGaramond-Book; "><br /></span>Sid: Yes, we will be releasing our new album "The Legacy remains" as soon as possible. Although there have been some serious drawbacks in the past few months, we're still confident that everything will be ready and done just in time. Besides, our new distributor Twilight will take care that all future releases will be available worldwide as well.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Hand2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry151_1.jpg" width="162" height="236"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Feuertanz-Festival 2007</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2007-06-24T18:57:08+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-149</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-149</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Am Samstag waren wir auf dem <a href="http://www.feuertanz-festival.de/feuertanz2007/fotos_feuertanz_festival_07/" rel="external">Feuertanz-Festival auf Burg Abenberg</a>, einer idyllisch gelegenen H&uuml;gelburg im mittelfr&auml;nkischen Landkreis Roth. Da wir uns bei der Anfahrt etwas Zeit gelassen hatten, bekamen wir von <a href="http://www.faune.de/web2007/index.html" rel="external">Faun</a> und <a href="http://www.corvuscorax.de/start.php?lang=DE" rel="external">Corvus Corax</a> so gut wie nichts mehr mit, doch Katja, die bereits vor uns eingetroffen war, versicherte uns Stein auf Bein, da&szlig; Faun wirklich gut gewesen seien.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Pasted Graphic" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry149_1.jpg" width="164" height="233"/><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Meine S&uuml;&szlig;e und ich bummelten nach unserer Ankunft erst mal &uuml;ber den Mittelaltermarkt und bestiegen den Burgturm, bevor wir uns zu <a href="http://www.thetalesofasp.com/de/index.html" rel="external">ASP</a> vor der B&uuml;hne einfanden, und obwohl ich nicht allzuviele Songs dieser Band kannte, war ich von der ASP ziemlich beeindruckt: Sie spielten einen druckvollen und spannungsgeladenen Set, der m&auml;chtig ins Tanzbein ging, und konnten aufgrund ihrer sympathischen Performance trotz der f&uuml;r eine Gothic-Band ungew&ouml;hnlichen Lichtverh&auml;ltnisse (die Sonne stand noch am Himmel!) und des miesen Sounds, der ihnen verpasst wurde (und der wie im weiteren Verlauf des Festivals zu h&ouml;ren war, sich sehr wohl besser gestalten liess!), das Publikum begeistern. Uns hat's jedenfalls so gut gefallen, da&szlig; wir uns ASP gerne nochmal am 15. November in N&uuml;rnberg im "<a href="http://www.der-hirsch.de/" rel="external">Hirsch</a>" unter hoffentlich besseren akustischen Voraussetzungen anschauen werden.<br /><br />Nach ASP waren <a href="http://www.tanzwut.com/" rel="external">Tanzwut</a> dran, die eine &auml;u&szlig;erst professionelle und ebenfalls zum Tanzen animierende Show boten: Seltsamerweise war deren Sound deutlich besser als der von ASP, obwohl Tanzwut definitiv schwerer abzumischen sind - ein Schweinehund, wer Schlechtes dabei denkt! Nichtsdestotrotz gingen Tanzwut ziemlich gut ab, doch die mangelnden stimmlichen Qualit&auml;ten von S&auml;nger Teufel, der zwar ein guter Entertainer sein mag, in punkto Gesang jedoch eher nach rostiger Gie&szlig;kanne klingt, liessen den Set auf Dauer etwas eint&ouml;nig werden: Mit einem besseren S&auml;nger w&uuml;rden die Songs von Tanzwut erheblich dazugewinnen!<br /><br />Am sp&auml;ten Abend traten dann <a href="http://www.schandmaul.de/" rel="external">Schandmaul</a>, die Headliner des Festivals, auf: Mittlerweile war es proppenvoll geworden, und so bekamen wir nur noch einen Platz am Seitenrand der B&uuml;hne. Spieltechnisch sind Schandmaul &uuml;ber jeden Zweifel erhaben: Da wackelt nichts, und es gibt keine schiefen T&ouml;ne - doch mit ihrem Songmaterial geht es mir genau so wie mit Blackmore's Night: Eine halbe Stunde lang klingt alles ganz nett, aber genau wie bei Zuckerwatte verpufft die anf&auml;ngliche Begeisterung ziemlich schnel! Am Besten gefiel mir im Verlauf des Sets "Die T&uuml;r in mir", wohingegen "Walpurgisnacht" g&auml;nzlich verpuffte. Bei aller Kritik muss ich Schandmaul jedoch zugute halten, da&szlig; sie einen eigenst&auml;ndigen Sound kreiert haben, der sie deutlich von anderen Bands dieses Genres unterscheidet und &uuml;ber einen hohen Wiedererkennungswert verf&uuml;gt.<br /><br />Da wir nach dem Auftritt von Schandmaul noch keinerlei Lust versp&uuml;rten, das Festival zu verlassen, fanden wir uns auf dem Burghof ein, wo <a href="http://www.feuerschwanz.de/spgm/index.php?spgmGal=Feuerschwanz%20unterwegs%202007/Feuertanz%20Festival%20-%20Abenberg%20(23.06.07)&spgmFilters=" rel="external">Feuerschwanz</a> aufspielten und dabei von Feuerschluckern und Gauklern begleitet wurden. Dabei &uuml;berraschten mich Feuerschwanz positiv, denn noch vor 2 Jahren auf dem Veldensteiner Burgfestival ging mir diese Band tierisch auf die N&uuml;sse - doch hier, im kleinen Rahmen des fackelbeschienenen Burghofs, rissen Feuerschwanz das Publikum mit ihrem stimmungsvollen Mittelalter-Set richtiggehend mit, wof&uuml;r sie auch v&ouml;llig zu Recht mit "Flughafen"- und "Gorgonzola"-Rufen abgefeiert wurden!<br /><br />Nachdem Feuerschwanz und die Gaukler sich in den wohlverdienten Feierabend bzw. Feiermorgen verabschiedet hatten, wollten wir uns noch Eric Fish anschauen, der bereits im Festsaal der Burg zu spielen angefangen hatte, doch da im Saal keinen Platz mehr gab, setzten wir uns kurzerhand drau&szlig;en vor dem Fenster auf eine Bank und lauschten dem K&uuml;nstler von dort aus. Ich hatte Eric Fish solo zuvor noch nie geh&ouml;rt und mir eigentlich nichts besonderes erwartet, daher war ich ziemlich erstaunt, als mir da ein traditioneller aber nichtsdestotrotz souver&auml;n vorgetragener Folk-Set zu Ohren kam. Leider bekamen wir nur noch den letzten Teil des Auftritts mit, der mit einer Cover-Version des unverw&uuml;stlichen Neil Young-Klassikers "Rockin' in the Free World" endete, und nach einem weiteren Spaziergang diurch die mondbeschienene Nacht begaben wir uns schliesslich zu unserem mobilen Schlafplatz am Fu&szlig; der Burg.<br /><br />Fazit: Ein sehr sch&ouml;n gestaltetes Festival mit jeder Menge Schauwert und einem musikalisch durchaus abwechslungsreichen Programm, wobei meiner Favoriten eindeutig ASP und Feuerschwanz waren.<br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Where can I purchase &#x22;A Legacy Of Love Mark II&#x22;?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2007-04-09T16:30:05+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-147</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-147</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: I live in Brazil and I can't find "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" anywhere in the record stores here. Is there a way to get it via mail order from Germany?</span><br /><br />Sid : Of course - "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" is distributed world wide by Playbaker. You'll find the reasonably priced album at Playbaker's online store <a href="http://www.playbaker.com/s/content.cgi?store=cd&category=16&menu=3&cd=1111&action=cd" rel="external" title="Playbaker">here</a>.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="s110366716525508" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry147_1.jpg" width="204" height="184"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Moonshadow</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-04-16T10:19:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-146</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-146</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Ich habe in einer alten Rezension des Orkus-Magazins gelesen, dass "Moonshadow" gestorben sei &ndash; so weit ich informiert bin, hast du dieses Pseudonym lediglich abgelegt. Und wenn "Moonshadow" ein Pseudonym war, warum hast du dich dann davon gel&ouml;st und was hat es fr&uuml;her f&uuml;r dich bedeutet?</span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /><br />Sid: Ich spielte "Cantara Anachoreta" noch unter dem Pseudonym "Moonshadow" ein, doch kurz vor Ver&ouml;ffentlichung des Albums kam es zur Trennung von meiner damaligen Freundin, mit der ich zu diesem Zeitpunkt 7 Jahre zusammengelebt hatte. Ich brach v&ouml;llig zusammen und landete nach einem Selbstmordversuch f&uuml;r 3 Monate in der geschlossenen Abteilung einer psychiatrischen Klinik. Dadurch verlor ich meinen Job, meine Wohnung, und musste v&ouml;llig neu anfangen, den alle Verbindungen zu meinem alten Leben hatten sich aufgel&ouml;st - und somit war im &uuml;bertragenen Sinne auch mein altes Ich gestorben; "Moonshadow" hatte zu existieren aufgeh&ouml;rt.<br /><br />Diese symbolische Wandlung wurde von einigen Magazinen f&auml;lschlicherweise als konkrete Todesmeldung interpretiert... ich fand es in diesem Zusammenhang nur etwas belustigend, dass diejenigen, die glaubten, Moonshadow w&auml;re tats&auml;chlich gestorben und durch Sid ersetzt worden, nicht merkten, dass sich der S&auml;nger auf "A Legacy of Love" genau so anh&ouml;rt wie der auf "Cantara Anachoreta".<br /><br />Moonshadow war zugegebenerma&szlig;en ein etwas pr&auml;tenti&ouml;ser K&uuml;nstlername, den ich mir seinerzeit allerdings aus v&ouml;llig unspektakul&auml;ren Gr&uuml;nden zulegte: Es gibt einen gleichnamigen Song von Cat Stevens, der mir sowohl vom Text als auch von der Musik her schon immer ausgesprochen gut gefiel und daher fand ich, dass dieser Name gut zu mir und zu dem, was ich mit Antichrisis zum Ausdruck bringen wollte, passen w&uuml;rde.<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="moonshadow" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry146_1.jpg" width="202" height="185"/><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Botschaft</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-04-21T11:14:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-145</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-145</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Gibt es ein k&uuml;nstlerisches Ziel deiner Arbeit und Kompositionen? Willst du etwas mit deiner Musik beim H&ouml;rer erreichen? Oder gibt es gar eine Botschaft, die du in die Welt hinaus tragen m&ouml;chtest?</span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /><br />Sid: Mein k&uuml;nstlerisches Ziel ist vermutlich das gleiche, das jeder Musiker hat: Die st&auml;ndige und vergebliche Suche nach dem perfekten Song. Dieses Ziel wird man wahrscheinlich nie erreichen, aber man kann ihm manchmal zumindest recht nahe kommen... Auf diesem Weg m&ouml;chte ich stets offen f&uuml;r Neues bleiben; au&szlig;erdem m&ouml;chte ich mich nicht wiederholen, weshalb ich mir auch das Ziel gesetzt habe, dass jedes Antichrisis-Album anders als sein Vorg&auml;nger klingen soll.<br /><br />Beim H&ouml;rer m&ouml;chte ich eigentlich nur Eines erreichen: Dass ihn die Musik ber&uuml;hrt und ihm in den dunklen Momenten des Lebens Hoffnung und Zuversicht gibt. Ich m&ouml;chte keinesfalls Musik machen, die den H&ouml;rer "runterzieht", selbst in meinen traurigsten Songs versuche ich immer wieder, einen Silberstreif am Horizont durchschimmern zu lassen, denn Trauer ohne einen Funken Zuversicht hinterl&auml;sst nur ein tiefes schwarzes Loch in der Seele.<br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="perfection" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry145_1.jpg" width="207" height="213"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Neue Wege</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-04-18T19:08:16+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-144</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-144</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Nach deiner ersten Ver&ouml;ffentlichung hast du dich ja deutlich h&ouml;rbar vom Metal wegbewegt und mehr Kraft in den Folk, Pop oder auch Melodien gelegt. Warum hast du da neue Pfade gesucht?</span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /><br />Sid: Naja, die Melodien waren auch schon auf "Cantara Anachoreta" enthalten, doch konnte mal sie unter all den verzerrten Gitarren nur schwer heraush&ouml;ren *gg*...<br /><br />"Cantara Anachoreta" entstand in einer Zeit, als ich meinen Gef&uuml;hle am Besten durch schwere E-Gitarren-Riffs und aggressivem Gesang Ausdruck verleihen konnte; denn damals waren Wut, Ohnmacht und Verzweiflung &uuml;ber eine sich abzeichnende Trennung die bei mir vorherrschenden Gef&uuml;hle... Doch mit jedem neuen Album versuche ich, meinen Gef&uuml;hlen einen differenzierteren Ausdruck zu verleihen und z. B. auch den sch&ouml;nen Seiten der Liebe mehr Raum zu geben. Jeder, der schon mal geliebt hat, kennt vermutlich all die emotionalen Stadien, die man nach einer Trennung durchl&auml;uft: Trauer und Zorn; die qu&auml;lende Frage, was man falsch gemacht hat; die Erinnerung an die sch&ouml;nen Zeiten; die Tr&auml;nen, wenn man sich alte Fotos anschaut... man durchl&auml;uft so viele unterschiedliche und extreme Gef&uuml;hlszust&auml;nde, und all diesen Facetten versuche ich in meinen Songs Form zu verleihen, weshalb z. B. Songs wie "Nightswan" und "Planet Kyrah" ein v&ouml;llig positives Gef&uuml;hl vermitteln, da ich bei diesen St&uuml;cken in den Erinnerungen an die guten Zeiten schwelge, w&auml;hrend in Tracks wie "Trying not to Breathe" oder "The Farewell" die Raserei bzw. das Gef&uuml;hl des Aufgebens und der Kapitulation den Grundton pr&auml;gen.<br /><br />Die vielf&auml;ltigen Schattierungen in der Musik von Antichrisis r&uuml;hren auch daher, da&szlig; ich beim Verfassen eines Songs niemals einer bestimmten Vorgabe folge: Manchmal bin ich selbst &uuml;berrascht, in welche Richtung sich ein St&uuml;ck entwickelt. Jeder Song w&auml;hlt sich seinen eigenen Weg, indem sich der Inhalt die passende Form sucht - diese "Arbeitsweise" verhindert, da&szlig; Antichrisis auf eine fest umrissene Stilrichtung festglegt werden kann. Zwar finden sich in unserer Musik sowohl Elemente von Gothic, Dark Wave, Folk, Metal, Electronica usw., dennoch kann sie nicht auf nur eine dieser Spielarten reduziert werden, und sie ist auch weit davon entfernt, lediglich einen Crossover darzustellen, weil jedes dieser Elemente nur dann zum Einsatz kommt, wenn es die Geschichte, die ich in dem jeweiligen Song erz&auml;hlen will, erfordert... Das mag jetzt vielleicht ein wenig kopflastig klingen, doch im Grunde genommen ist es ein v&ouml;llig organischer Proze&szlig;, der ganz von selbst abl&auml;uft und es mir erlaubt, mich eines &auml;u&szlig;erst breiten Spektrums unterschiedlichster Stilistiken zu bedienen. <br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="_40528829_6_eden_project" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry144_1.jpg" width="240" height="196"/>	</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Verwechslungsgefahr</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-09-17T05:59:16+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-143</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-143</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Hat euer Bandname schonmal f&uuml;r evtl. Verwirrung/Verwechslung mit Black Metal&nbsp; gesorgt?</span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; ">Sid: Ja, es kommt schon gelegentlich vor, dass die Leute Antichrisis irgendwie mit Antichrist in Verbindung bringen - doch damit hat der Bandname gar nichts zu tun: Antichrisis ist ein griechisches Anagramm, das sich mit "Heilige T&auml;nze zu Ehren der Isis" &uuml;bersetzen l&auml;sst. Au&szlig;erdem gef&auml;llt mir die daraus resultierende Doppelbedeutung des Bandnamens, denn Antichrisis k&ouml;nnte ja genau so gut f&uuml;r "Anti-crisis" - also "gegen die Krise" - stehen... <br /><br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="busbahnhof-bonn" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry143_1.jpg" width="205" height="154"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Experiment</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2005-05-24T05:48:05+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-142</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-142</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Ich muss zugeben, dass ich zwar eure ersten beiden Alben besitze, mir bis vor einigen Monaten jedoch gar nicht bekannt war, dass 2001 mit &bdquo;Perfume&ldquo; eine weitere Scheibe ver&ouml;ffentlicht wurde. Nun mag das zwar auch an mir selbst liegen, dass diese Ver&ouml;ffentlichung an mir vor&uuml;ber ging, dennoch bin ich mal so vermessen, die &bdquo;Schuld&ldquo; daran an anderer Stelle zu suchen &ndash; k&ouml;nnte es sein, dass in Sachen Promotion in der Vergangenheit m&ouml;glicherweise auch einiges im Argen lag? </span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /><br />Sid: "Perfume" erschien zu einem Zeitpunkt, als es zu den bereits erw&auml;hnten Scherereien mit Napalm gekommen war, weshalb von Seiten des Labels auch kein Interesse mehr Bestand, dieses Album noch in irgendeiner Form effektiv zu promoten. Napalm warf uns ja sogar vor, dass Antichrisis auf dem Album wie Tic Tac Toe klingen w&uuml;rden, worauf ich entgegenete, dass ich &uuml;berhaupt nichts dagegen einzuwenden h&auml;tte, wenn Napalm von "Perfume" ebenso viele Einheiten wie Tic Tac Toe verkaufen w&uuml;rde.<br /><br />Ich glaube, wir sind eine der wenigen Bands in der Musikgeschichte, die sich von Seiten der eigenen Plattenfirma den Vorwurf anh&ouml;ren musste, das sie "zu kommerziell" sei...<br /><br />Daher bist Du leider nicht der Einzige, an dem "Perfume" v&ouml;llig spurlos vor&uuml;ber ging - auch wenn ich dem Album im Nachhinein eher mit zwiesp&auml;ltigen Gef&uuml;hlen gegen&uuml;berstehe: Es stellte zum damaligen Zeitpunkt ein Experiment dar, bei dem ich mal eine andere Arbeitsweise ausprobieren wollte - doch ein Experiment kann mitunter auch daneben gehen: Songs wie "Like the Stars", "Goodbye to Jane" oder "Hole in my Head" halte ich auch aus heutiger Sicht noch f&uuml;r &auml;u&szlig;erst gelungen, wohingegen einige andere Tracks nicht die Wirkung entfalten konnten, die sie h&auml;tten haben k&ouml;nnen, wenn ich ich sie anders strukturiert h&auml;tte. Ich wollte viel Raum f&uuml;r Improvisationen lassen und keine detaillierte Ausarbeitung wie noch auf "A Legacy of Love" vornehmen. Diese Methode hatte zwar ihren Reiz, f&uuml;hrte letztendlich aber dazu, dass "Perfume" weitaus weniger geschlossen als "Cantara Anachoreta" oder "A Legacy of Love" klingt. Wie gesagt: Es sind einige sehr gute Songs darauf enthalten, aber als Album funktionierte es nicht.<br /><br />Wie auch immer - ich habe aus diesem Experiment gelernt und festgestellt, dass meine Songs dann am st&auml;rksten sind, wenn ich sie &uuml;ber die Melodie entwickle und nicht &uuml;ber Drum-Grooves und Bass-Lines, wie ich es auf "Perfume" getan habe.<br /></span><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="experiment_01" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry142_1.jpg" width="226" height="169"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Vorbilder und Einfl&#xfc;sse</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-04-13T15:29:50+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-141</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-141</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Woher kommen eure Einfl&uuml;sse in Deiner Musik? H&ouml;rst Du im privatem Leben Bands, die &auml;hnlich klingen? Hast Du irgendwelche Vorbilder beim Schreiben von Songs?<br /></span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br />Sid: Ich schreibe ja alle Antichrisis-Songs - bis auf "How can I live on Top of the Mountain?", das auf traditionellen Irish Folk Tunes beruht und von N&auml;x verfasst wurde - im Alleingang, und da ich privat &uuml;ber ein sehr breit gef&auml;chertes musikalisches Spektrum verf&uuml;ge, h&ouml;re ich die unterschiedlichsten Arten von Musik, sei es nun Klassik, Folk, Reggae, Bhangra, EBM, Britpop oder TripHop - ich finde in nahezu jeder musikalischen Richtung Songs, die mir gefallen.<br /><br /></span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; ">Die vielf&auml;ltigen Schattierungen in der Musik von Antichrisis r&uuml;hren auch daher, da&szlig; ich beim Verfassen eines Songs niemals bestimmten Vorgaben folge: Ich lasse mich einfach &uuml;berraschen, in welche Richtung sich ein St&uuml;ck entwickelt. Jeder Song w&auml;hlt sich seinen eigenen Weg, indem sich der jeweilige Inhalt seine passende Form sucht - diese "Arbeitsweise" verhindert, da&szlig; Antichrisis auf eine fest umrissene Stilrichtung festglegt werden kann. Zwar finden sich in unserer Musik sowohl Elemente von Gothic, Dark Wave, Folk, Metal, Electronica usw., dennoch kann sie nicht auf nur eine dieser Spielarten reduziert werden, und sie ist auch weit davon entfernt, lediglich einen Crossover darzustellen, weil jedes dieser Elemente nur dann zum Einsatz kommt, wenn es die Geschichte, die ich in dem jeweiligen Song erz&auml;hlen will, erfordert... Das mag jetzt vielleicht ein wenig kopflastig klingen, doch im Grunde genommen ist es ein v&ouml;llig organischer Proze&szlig;, der ganz von selbst abl&auml;uft und es mir erlaubt, mich eines &auml;u&szlig;erst breiten Spektrums unterschiedlichster Stilistiken zu bedienen. <br /><br />Als Songwriter bin ich wohl am meisten von K&uuml;nstlern wie Joe Strummer & Mick Jones, Stephin Merritt, Joel Gibb, Bruce Springsteen, Shane MacGowan, Billy Bragg, Ian Curtis, Kirk Brandon, Paul Weller und Lisa Gerrard beeinflusst worden, obwohl man deren Einfl&uuml;sse aus meinen Songs vermutlich nicht unbedingt heraush&ouml;rt.<br /><br />Ansonsten h&ouml;re ich keine Bands, die &auml;hnlich wie Antichrisis klingen - schlichtweg deshalb, weil es keine gibt, die sich direkt mit uns vergleichen liessen, auch wenn in der Vergangenheit schon Parallelen zu Bands und Interpreten wie Blackmore's Night, Wolfstone, Lacrimosa, Cranberries oder Mike Oldfield gezogen wurden - doch alleine schon an dieser Auflistung l&auml;sst sich erkennen, wie schwer Antichrisis einzuordnen ist.<br /><br />Neben meiner Arbeit mit Antichrisis produziere ich z. Zt. auch ein deutschsprachiges Projekt namens Blindflug, von dem es unter http://www.blindflugonline.de Outtakes aus unserer aktuellen Vorproduktion zu h&ouml;ren gibt.<br /></span><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="B_Soldaten_Ikone" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry141_1.jpg" width="180" height="216"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#xdc;bersetzung von &#x22;Goodbye To Jane&#x22; und &#x22;The Farewell&#x22;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2007-03-03T18:24:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-140</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-140</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Ich finde eure Mucke echt klasse... nur leider hab ichs nicht so mit dem Englischen und wollte euch daher mal fragen ob ihr zu "The Farewell" und "Goodbye to Jane" auch deutsche Liedtexte habt?<br /></span><br />Sid: Aber klar doch - hier kommt die &Uuml;bersetzung von "Goodbye To Jane":<br /><br /><em>Schau das M&auml;dchen am Boden<br />wie es den Regen beobachtet<br />der gleich einem Rinnsal aus Blut am Fenster entlangl&auml;uft<br /><br />&Uuml;ber den Boden verstreut<br />liegen mit schwarzem Stift gezeichnete Bilder<br />die ein gefesseltes Kind ohne Mund zeigen<br /><br />Ihre Mutter ist Einkaufen gegangen<br />und sie betet<br />da&szlig; ihr Vater nicht nach Hause kommen m&ouml;ge<br /><br />Doch kein Gott hat sich je um Jane's Gebete gek&uuml;mmert:<br />Ihr Vater kommt zur&uuml;ck, um mit Jane zu spielen!<br /><br />Sie schliesst ihre Augen<br />um vor sich selbst zu fliehen<br />wie sie gesch&auml;ndet und missbraucht am Boden liegt<br /><br />Es h&auml;tte keinen Zweck, sich irgendjemandem anzuvertrauen:<br />Wer w&uuml;rde Jane schon glauben?<br /><br />Hass steigt in ihr empor<br />denn sie hat dies nicht verdient:<br />Ist es etwa ihre Schuld<br />da&szlig; ihr Vater diese Spiele spielt?<br />Verzweifelt versucht sie dahinterzukommen<br />was sie wohl falsch gemacht haben k&ouml;nnte<br /><br />Schau das M&auml;dchen am Boden<br />das es nicht l&auml;nger ertragen kann<br />von l&uuml;sternen H&auml;nden besudelt zu werden<br /><br />Ein solches Leben bedeutet ihr nicht viel<br />Der G&uuml;rtel um ihren Hals zieht sie sanft hinweg<br /><br />Er schliesst die T&uuml;r<br />denn sie scheint nur zu schlafen<br />doch diese kranken Spiele werden nie wieder gespielt werden<br /><br />Niemand konnte erkl&auml;ren<br />was mit Jane geschah:<br />Sie war nur eines von vielen Millionen M&auml;dchen:<br />Leb wohl, Jane!<br /></em><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Child Abuse corner" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry140_1.jpg" width="173" height="272"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br /><br />Und hier der deutsche Text von "The Farewell" ("Der Abschied"):<br /><br /><em>Ich wollte auf dem Gipfel des Berges leben<br />doch ohne Dich ist es dort nun kalt und einsam<br /><br />Ich wollte in den Ozean der Liebe eintauchen<br />doch stattdessen strandete ich am Ufer der zerbrochenen Tr&auml;ume<br /><br />F&uuml;r Dich sang ich die Lieder des dunklen Schwans<br />und jede Zeile, die ich schrieb, war ein Schlag meines Herzens<br /><br />F&uuml;r immer brennend auf dem Scheiterhaufen der Liebe<br />H&ouml;r nun auf zu schlagen, mein blutendes Herz<br />denn dieses Messer stach zu tief<br />und so versuche ich ein letztes Mal<br />meinen Atem anzuhalten<br /><br />Einst brannte ein helles Licht im Leuchtturm meines Herzens:<br />Ich gab Dir so viel mehr als nur meine Liebe<br />und Du brachst so viel mehr als nur ein Versprechen<br /><br />Unser Planet versank so verheerend<br />in den Nebeln der Zeit<br />Es gab keinen Schatz am Ende des Regenbogens zu finden<br />irgendwo hinter Andromeda<br /><br />Ich habe bis zum Ende des Dezembers gewartet<br />doch ich werde nie wieder ausreiten:<br />Das Kind der Wintersonnenwende<br />wird in einer Mitsommernacht unbemerkt entschwinden<br /><br />M&ouml;gest Du nun also kommen, mein ach so romantischer Engel<br />und kyrahnische Hymnen f&uuml;r mich singen<br />mich in Deinen Armen halten<br />mit welkenden Bl&uuml;ten bedecken<br />und mich hinunter zu meiner geliebten See tragen<br /><br />Ich bin m&uuml;de<br />so unglaublich m&uuml;de<br />Bitte warte f&uuml;r mich unter der Mitternachtssonne<br />wo ich wieder singen und tanzen werde<br />und wo mein Lachen erneut<br />von den Bergen klingen wird<br /><br />Oh, wie ich versucht habe<br />zu glauben<br />wie ich liebte und darum k&auml;mpfte<br />diesen Traum festzuhalten;<br />wie gerne ich leben wollte:<br />Doch nun gehe zur&uuml;ck an einen Ort<br />wo Liebe mehr ist als nur ein Wort aus f&uuml;nf Buchstaben<br /><br />Und nun<br />da ich die Erinnerung an Dich<br />zum Abschied k&uuml;sse<br />fange ich an<br />das Licht zu sehen...</em><br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="schizo4" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry140_2.jpg" width="176" height="264"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Farewell</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-11-29T15:38:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-139</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-139</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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"?</span><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Farewell" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry139_1.jpg" width="189" height="201"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Forever I Ride</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-01-19T17:34:35+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-138</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-138</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What is the hidden message of the raven's cry on "Forever I Ride"?</span><br /><br />Sid : In Northern-European mythology the raven is the bird of death and rebirth (just like the vulture in Egyptian or African myths) that calls forth the end - and so the raven in "Forever I Ride" is the harbinger of love's decline, forcing the fool to saddle up again...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Raven" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry138_1.jpg" width="184" height="275"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Our Last Show</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-07-19T17:30:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-137</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-137</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Your reference to classic characters like Romeo and Juliet in "Our Last Show" gives a theatrical aspect to the story: Would you consider yourself as a modern Romeo?</span><br /><br />Sid : No, I don't think that I'm a modern Romeo: I may be a very romantic person and though I sometimes felt like one of those star-crossed lovers that Wiliam Shakespeare mentioned, I'm not a victim of misunderstandings and intrigues like Romeo was. I just think that we're nothing more but actors on life's badly illuminated stage, forced to take part in comedies or dramas without any chance of getting to know the script or to rehearse.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="dickseeromeo" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry137_1.jpg" width="234" height="194"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Sea</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-08-28T17:27:25+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-136</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-136</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: You've used a couple of french expressions in "The Sea". Have you chosen them to create a special feeling? Why?<br /></span><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="violence" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry136_1.jpg" width="176" height="233"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Planet Kyrah</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-05-17T17:22:53+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-135</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Where can I find Planet Kyrah that you sing about so beautifully? Does it have something in common with the novel "Little Prince" by Saint-Exupery?</span><br /><br />Sid: Kyrah is a fictional planet of unconditional love that can only be stepped on by lovers. It's a symbol for true love's purity, chastity and innocence, hence I do like the comparison with the little prince's planet, as it shares the same bittersweet aura of transitoriness. Blissfulness and sadness are sometimes almost the same, and the older we get, the more we become aware that nothing, not even the most wonderful moments, do last forever!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="17a" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry135_1.jpg" width="179" height="246"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Metal Ingratiation</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-12-03T17:19:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-134</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-134</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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".</span><br /><br />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!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="61415L" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry134_1.jpg" width="140" height="140"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dead Culture?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-03-24T17:16:12+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-133</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-133</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What is so fascinating in folklore? I mean it's a dead culture after all...?</span><br /><br />Sid: Dead culture? Oh dear, you should travel once through Cornwall, Scotland, some of the more remote parts of Ireland or even through some outback regions of your country to realize how lively these dead cultures still are! Celtic Folklore has survived for ages and is still alive and kicking! It's only our modern society's ignorance and the arrogance of an americanized cultural attitude that makes us think folklore's just something to be found in your average rural museum.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Many folklores, especially the Irish, are very vivid cultures, because they are part of the national and regional identity. Maybe the folklorical, or better the ancient way, of life extincts, but times change and nobody wants to live in the past. On the other hand, many aspects of folklore and cultures are not bound to single periods as for example language, religion, literature, crafts, art or music. And they survive in many cultures for centuries, deriving from a dark, mysterious past.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="somerset rural life museum pic" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry133_1.jpg" width="235" height="169"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Celtic Fascination</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-06-12T17:09:59+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-132</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What causes your fascination of Celtic music or folk stuff in general. Don't you wanna pick up some german folk influences?</span><br /><br />Sid: Well, there's nothing wrong with German folk music (by the way: The Celts have settled and lived in Germany, hence there are also traces of Celtic folklore to be found in our musical heritage!) and if I had the hang of it I surely would assimilate those musical traditions of my native country (and there are bands around here who are doing suchlike stuff like f. e. Zupfgeigenhansel, Biermoesl Blosn, Alpinkatzen or Hans S&ouml;llner and many more), but somehow I seem to be connected to and deeply rooted in English/Celtic culture. It's something I can't explain logically - it's just that every time I'm setting foot on English soil, it feels like sort of homecoming; like I had been living there for ages, and it also never occurs to me as if I was a foreigner there: Everything about England seems so damn familiar to me!<br /><br />The same goes for Celtic folk music: If I listen to an English or Irish folk song it seems to me as if a voice from afar would be answering the yearning call of my soul...it just makes my heart dance! But there's absolutely no reasonable explanation for this kind of fascination - maybe it's a matter of the heart like falling in love with someone.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Whenever I listen to music, I usually judge it by the following three measures: Does the music touch me? Is the music composed intelligently? Are the Instruments well played?<br /><br />Celtic Music touches me inside and the musical part of my soul is addicted to this Celtic stuff. Now, there is one point that is really fascinating to me: The enormous diversity of a music which is passed on just by listening and learning. When you try to understand this music, to play or to analyse it, then you start to think about who composed these complex songs or tunes. When were they composed? Who played this tune which you are playing at this moment before, and who danced, cried or loved to it? And which rules make a tune last over centuries? Then you feel that this music has a deep peacefull power inside which can fill your veins if only you let it. Other people may have these feelings with other kinds of music, but most of them have never experienced the mysterious fascination of traditional music. In addition traditional music does not depend on written notes or recordings in general, in contrary to classical or rock-, pop- or metal-music. This makes traditional music so resistent against fast moving trends. Although reality sometimes proves the opposite (as in Germany), traditional music has a touch of immortality.<br /><br />It is sad that there is no widespread german traditional music any more. Traditional music is still alive in some regions where regional culture is maintained. But the biggest part of this music became a victim of the success of classical music. When classical music became modern in Germany, people lost interest in their own traditional music and so it died.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="77" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry132_1.jpg" width="171" height="241"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Folk Renaissance</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-04-21T17:06:52+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-131</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What do you think about this folk/celtic renaissance in today's rock scene?</span><br /><br />Sid: Well, I appreciate this a lot, because in my opinion it's a most exciting event to re-discover the musical roots of our European heritage and combining them with contemporary music. By the way: It's great to see that nowadays Celtic Folk seems to get the esteem at least that this soulful and heart-touching music always deserved!<br /><br />N&auml;x: For me it's interesting to see that every 20 years there is a revival of Celtic music. This proves that this music is quite vivid and also adaptable to other musical styles. I admire those musicians who have a huge background of folk music and who are now able to unite their instruments/voices with non-folklorical music, entering new spheres for folk music and rock, pop, classic or whatsoever. A positive effect on this popular mixture is that listeners become aware of musical styles beyond their favourite music.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="renesance26ss" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry131_1.jpg" width="267" height="192"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Dedicated to Folk Music</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-12-03T16:59:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-130</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-130</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Naex, you're using traditional instruments such as uileann pipes and bodhran. Are you dedicated to folk music?<br /></span><br />N&auml;x: Yes, I can`t deny that I am dedicated to folk music, especially to the traditional Irish music. Sometimes I think that I'm even addicted to it.<br /><br />When I got into contact with Antichrisis it became apparent that the sound of the Irish uilleann pipes would perfectly fit into Sid's music, so we started off to experiment with this mixture.<br /><br />Beside of this musical aspect it is really interesting for me to play traditional instruments and music in a non-traditional context. I would like to make the traditional music and the uilleann pipes become known to people who have no special interest in this stuff. Everybody knows what the Great Highland Pipes sound and look like, only a bunch of people know that there are regional forms of bagpipes like the galician Gaita or Boehmischer and Maehrischer Bock in Germany, which may sound a bit crude sometimes. But there is another sound which is well known by films like "Braveheart", "Rob Roy", "Titanic" or musicals like "Riverdance" or "Lord of the Dance", and nobody knows which instrument creates this sound. They only know that non of the average bagpipes sound like this, but also no saxophone, clarinet or oboe. Perhaps a keyboard? Beside of making music with Antichrisis I want to show people that there is an bagpipe-instrument, which is held in high regard in Ireland and amongst folk fans, but which still can be discovered by the worldwide rockpopmetaltechnopunkgrungegothic- andwossisname-audience.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="pic13a" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry130_1.jpg" width="174" height="231"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Concept behind &#x22;Cantara Anachoreta&#x22;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-11-30T20:34:37+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-129</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-129</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Is "Cantara Anachoreta" a concept-album? And could you explain the title?</span><br /><br />Sid: "Cantara Anachoreta" is a latin-portugiese term meaning "The Chants of the Hermit". I've chosen that title because "Cantara Anachoreta" chronicles the last hours in the life of Ariman, the anchorite, who is aware that his time has finally come: Darkness embraces him ("Prologue"), and while he's on the threshold of twilight, he recollects occurances of his present life and past incarnations. Thus he relives the dark age of witchhunt ("The Endless Dance") as well as the tremendous distress of losing the one he once loved ("Requiem ex Sidhe"). He also remembers a little girl he once knew who committed suicide after being abused by her father, and Ariman's still able to sense the rage, anger and fury her ghost emanates ("Goodbye to Jane").<br /><br />Images of long gone days do arise, and the anchorite recalls the moments when he had to withstand to remain true to his principles and beliefs ("Baleias"). It wasn't always easy to follow the path of the Goddess and to obey her advice, but whenever he thought that she might have left him in the lurch, she was in fact with him for guidance ("Her Orphaned Throne").<br /><br />So he dreams of her return: A return that'll bring an end to injustice, intolerance and the lies of the false prophets - the dawning of a new golden era ("Descending Messiah"). Thereupon Ariman floats downstream to Cerridwen's realm, the garden of eternal dreams, where his seeking soul will find peace and tranquility at last ("Epilogue").<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="150px-RWS-09-Hermit" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry129_1.jpg" width="150" height="249"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Poor Cover</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-03-02T20:28:12+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-128</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-128</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I have got a feeling that the cover of "Perfume" was prepared in a hurry: It looks so very poor and its content inside is also very modest. What sense does it make to put your lyrics at the Website only? Don't you think that a buyer deserves its printed version in the booklet?<br /></span><br />Sid: Point taken. First: I'm a big fan of the cover artwork that Peter Saville and Martyn Atkins did in the early Eighties for Manchester-based label Factory Records, esp. for Joy Division. No naked female vampires or fake plastic skeletons or what else you have on your average contemporary goth-covers, but plain and straight, Bauhaus-inspired (not the band, but the famous school of arts in Dessau) artwork that didn't draw the listeners attention from the music. And as I do like that style a lot, I wanted to have something similar for "Perfume", and so we did the booklet-design together with Guido Meyer de Voltaire, who - even though he's always missing the deadline - did a great job. Whether you like it or not, the cover of "Perfume" was done with purpose and care - and most of all it does look neither "gothic" or "metal". Proper job.<br /><br />Second: We didn't put the lyrics in the booklet due to objections of Napalm Records. They've had lots of problems with the rather thick booklet of "A Legacy of Love" that caused many complains by record dealers: Peasants browsing through the CDs in the store did take the booklet out and had to fiddle about like hell to get it back in the case again, most of the times in a very crinkled or even ripped condition.<br /><br />So we had to find a way to let buyers have all the lyrics either wedged on 4 sides of a CD-booklet, which would have only been able with using a font not larger than 4 points and hence causing serious sight-damages to the innocent customer, or putting them on properly lay-outed and more easily readable pdf-files on our website, which allows even non-CD-purchasers to get hold of the lyrics. By the way, the download's for free; we do neither charge anything for it nor do we demand a voucher of purchase or any serial numbers for it, so I don't really understand why you're so upset about this - nowadays even people without internet-connection do at least know somebody who has a PC (or preferably a Mac) and a modem. But maybe that's another case of being "too modern" again... I only wished all Antichrisis-fans would be that worried and concerned about when it comes to loading illegal mp3-files of our albums up and down!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="peter_saville2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry128_1.jpg" width="241" height="186"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Triviality</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-02-25T23:21:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-127</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-127</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: But aren't you afraid that the direction you've chosen with "Perfume" may bear fruit of falling into excessive musical triviality?<br /></span><br />Sid: Why should I? "Triviality" derives from latin trivialis, which means "to be found everywhere" or "commonplace" (from trivium, "crossroads", from tri + via "way")... so what's wrong with that? I'm just a songwriter trying to put his own experiences, which are not so different from those of other people who have fallen in and out of love, in words and music - pretty common, I guess. But again, this says nothing about the quality of music itself! I mean, Bruce Springsteen is a superstar with international chart success, and sure you would call him a fine example of "excessive musical triviality" - and still he comes up with brilliant songs like "If I should fall behind", "I'm on Fire" or "I wish I were blind" that would make you break down on your knees and beg for forgiveness if you were able to listen without prejudice only once.<br /><br />I know also that you would like to reach wider horizons with Antichrisis' music, to go out of musical underground. You dream about charts, radio stations and (what I was mostly surprised with) people dancing to your music. I think you will admit that it is an unusual declaration in our music environment!<br /><br />It seems to me that "our music environment" is simply not MY environment: As aforesaid, I'm just a musician, hence all I care about is music, and not any "environment" or "scene" - I'm simply too old for this shit! And what the hell is wrong with making people dance? Or are you by any chance a follower of the "serious-artists-should-make-their-audience-feel-miserable"-school of philosophy? Sorry, but that's not my cup of tea: Even in the most sorrowful Antichrisis-songs like for instance "The Farewell" or "Forever I Ride", there's always a spark of hope shining through! Life is hard enough, and it's not my duty as an artist to make it even harder!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Emma-Peel_Avengers-Intro" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry127_1.jpg" width="170" height="240"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A more cheerful Approach?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-02-12T20:06:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-126</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: So we've got the third album of Antichrisis. I have to tell you that while listening to this album for the first time I had a feeling that the album sounded too modern, that you drift towards pop music too dangerously. My feeling was for sure influenced by the fact that the songs form &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo; were easier and somehow nicer; they fell faster into your ear. But after listening to it few times you realize that it is the same band, only refreshened and more "cheerful" Do you agree?<br /></span><br />Sid: First of all let me ask you a question: What kind of complete nonsense is this to evaluate music by criteria like "too modern" or "drift towards pop music too dangerously"? Do these terms say anything about the actual QUALITY of music? No, not at all - it's just the sort of pseudo-know-it-all-terminology used by people who have stopped listening to music with their heart but trying to analyze it with their so called brains instead! Either you like a song or not, either you find it awful of great - but trying to evaluate music with terms like being "too modern" is nothing else but a sure sign of utter backwardness! When Richard Wagner first hit the scene back in 1841 with his opera "The Flying Dutchman", critics laughed at him, calling his music "too modern" as well - guess who's the laughing stock now?<br /><br />But anyway: As you've already found out, "Perfume" may sound different from "A Legacy of Love", but it's still Antichrisis - even if it's another side of the same band! We just used a different form of musical expression, as we do consider repetition as dead boring - we're musicians, not parrots!<br /><br />"Perfume" has become a very powerful and vital record: Whereas "A Legacy of Love" was the perfect soundtrack for a cold autumn's evening with candlelight, "Perfume" is meant for dancing, preferably in a crowded and sweaty discotheque... maybe that's the more cheerful side of Antichrisis you're referring to.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Marsh-LAUGHING-STOCK" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry126_1.jpg" width="174" height="206"/><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Still Antichrisis?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-11-19T13:46:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-125</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo; contains very exclusive kind of music; with it's odour influencing all senses - this time your music is more rock-ish, psychedelic or even sensorical, but however it is still Antichrisis, thanks to N&auml;x's characteristic instruments. Do you agree with this recapitulation?</span><br /><br />Sid: Of course N&auml;x' special uilleann pipes-sound has become some kind of trademark, but most of all it's the songwriting that provides the typical Antichrisis-touch: Though I may always use different musical ways of expression, I have developed a very characteristic "handwriting" if it comes to creating and arranging songs: there are no bagpipes on "Carry me Down", "Something Inside" or "Gates of Paradise", yet these songs still sound like Antichrisis... anyway: N&auml;x is a brilliant artist and I just love working with him!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="perfume-thumb" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry125_1.jpg" width="160" height="237"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>General Atmosphere</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-10-12T10:43:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-124</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-124</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What about the general atmosphere of Perfume?</span><br /><br />Sid: Both "Cantara Anachoreta" and "A Legacy of Love" came into being during rather miserable periods of my life, whereas the songs of "Perfume" arose in a rather different situation; hence it sounds less gloomy or sad than its predecessors did. The quest that began with the debut-album and continued with the second release has found its end with "Perfume"; that's why these three albums do seem like a trilogy to me: "Perfume" is the final chapter of the novel. <br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="objectdreamd" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry124_1.jpg" width="193" height="173"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Concept?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-10-18T11:40:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-123</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-123</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Is there a concept behind the lyrics of &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo;?</span><br /><br />Sid: No - both "Cantara Anachoreta" and "A Legacy of Love" had been concept albums, so this time I wanted to try something different, hence each song of "Perfume" is meant to be some kind of snapshot of my life: There are moments of joy and love (for example "Gates of Paradise", "Dragonflies" or "Like the Stars") as well as moments of being pissed off by human stupidity & cruelty ("Hole in my Head" and "Goodbye to Jane") and also some spiritual songs just like "We are the Witches" and "Carry me Down" - all in all a pretty extensive collection of my world of emotions.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="news1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry123_1.jpg" width="202" height="177"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Genesis</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-10-02T12:36:36+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-122</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-122</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Would you like to talk about the genesis of &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo;?</span><br /><br />Sid: I'm afraid the process of creating an album can hardly be put into words, as it's simply beyond intention - it's all about sitting around until getting hit by another idea for a new song. Some of these ideas remain and develop, whereas others are proven unworthy, hence they go straight into the metaphorical dustbin...<br /><br />As soon as there are enough songs for an entire album - and in my opinion a proper CD should at least last something over 60 minutes, because customers should get value for money - one has to call the record company to bug them until they give in and send you to the studio, which is always the most difficult part, because some record companies seem to be mostly clueless (they wouldn't recognize a good song even if they'd got run over by one!), conservative (all they ever want is a precise replica of your last album, because it sold quite well and the new one might propably not!) and clumsy (you can always trust them to get everything wrong - even those things that cannot possibly go wrong because of universal laws of unthinkability; but record company executives in general seem to be completely out of any reasonable sphere of action!).<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="6big" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry122_1.jpg" width="187" height="187"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Acoustic and Electric</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-03-14T17:21:42+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-121</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-121</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: In which ways have you succeeded in mixing acoustic and electric music?</span><br /><br />Sid: When I wrote the songs for "Cantara Anachoreta" and "A Legacy of Love", I usually started with evolving the basic chords on acoustic guitar, but for "Perfume" things were different, because of its emphasis on electronic sounds and grooves. I started with just some basic rhythms and bass lines when working on the "Perfume"-material, which was a modified way of creating and arranging songs. causing the tracks to develop in another musical direction than those of "A Legacy of Love", which was just what I wanted.<br /><br />Personally, I don't see any reason for drawing a parting line between electronic and acoustic instruments: They both have their advantages, and they're both wonderful tools for creating the musical soundscapes of Antichrisis.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="000002605" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry121_1.jpg" width="221" height="177"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Losing Touch</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-09-09T19:18:17+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-120</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: It took quite a long time to come up with Perfume, aren't you afraid of losing touch with the fans?<br /></span><br />Sid: I'm not afraid of losing touch: Our fans have the chance to contact us via email, and we try to answer every email and every letter we receive as soon as possible.<br /><br />As I'm doing most of the songwrighting on my own, it's quite understandable that Antichrisis works in a different way than a "normal" band does: I do create the majority of songs, lyrics and arrangements on my own, I do have to come up with the album concept, hence songwriting takes a bit longer compared to other bands where two, three or even more people are working together on the songs in the rehearsal room at the same time. Of course I could come up with new stuff much faster, but I'm quite self-critical, so I'm always waiting until I'm absolutely convinced of every track that's bound to appear on an Antichrisis-album: If I have the slightest doubt about a song, I throw it straight in the dustbin.<br /><br />I'm also quite sure that our music is good enough that people will remember it even if takes us a while to come up with a new album: Just think of how long it takes Guns'n'Roses or Pink Floyd to come up with a new one!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="losingtouch" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry120_1.jpg" width="254" height="167"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Expectations</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-03-01T06:14:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-119</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-119</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Do you think Perfume has met the expectations of your audience? Will Antichrisis ever hit the airwaves of commercial radio station or do you consider yourself as being not "mainstream" enough...<br /></span><br />Sid: To be honest, I don't care about our audience or its expectations very much: First of all, my music belongs to me and no one else - if other people like it as well, then this is just a lucky coincidence and not the main reason for my musical output. That's why I don't want to push Antichrisis in any way whatsoever: As a human being, I'm constantly developing, and these developments will cause effects on Antichrisis' music as well. At the moment our music is published by a record company - maybe one day we don't need record companies any more, but who cares? I got some recording devices at home, and I certainly won't stop writing and recording new stuff anyway, may it get published or not. I'm not in this business for fame or money...in the end, I'm just a songwriter who simply does what he has to do - although I think Antichrisis does provide a certain commercial appeal as well: Songs like &ldquo;Goodbye to Jane&rdquo;, &ldquo;Our Last Show&rdquo;, &ldquo;Wasteland&rdquo; or &ldquo;Like the Stars&rdquo; could - with some proper support - easily enter the charts, as they are both catchy and mainstream-compatible, though still maintaining that special Antichrisis-touch!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="expectations" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry119_1.jpg" width="243" height="162"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Label Politics</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-10-15T17:09:51+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-118</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-118</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Perfume is released by Napalm Records, is it your real first release for them? I think in the past you have suffered by very poor distribution - not to mention promotion!</span><br /><br />Sid: "Perfume" is actually our second and last album for Napalm Records - our contract is carried out now and we're free to find a more suitable label for us. I wouldn't go as far as to say that Napalm Records would have done "bad promotion&rdquo;: After all, they're just a BM/Gothic-label, and they're used to promote bands and artists of that genre - but they've made the mistake of taking Antichrisis for a metal-act, so they were bound to fail in promoting a band that's simply beyond musical limitations! In the beginning of our cooperation with Napalm Records I had the impression that they were interested in entering new musical territories, and that signing Antichrisis was meant to be their first step in that direction - but in the end I realized that they would have been much more satisfied if we'd just recorded "Cantara Anachoreta" Vol. 2 and 3 instead of developing into those directions we've headed for with &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; and &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo;: In fact, they considered both albums as being &ldquo;too commercial&rdquo;, but at the same time they're not capable of using this commercial potential for their own and the band's sake.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="busker4" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry118_1.jpg" width="240" height="205"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Perfume Impressions</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-09-22T08:02:09+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-117</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: You have just returned from the studio where you&lsquo;ve recorded your new album &bdquo;Perfume&ldquo;: Can you give us some impressions about the time you spent there, including the material you have recorded?<br /></span><br />N&auml;x: I can't remember too much of it. Yes, there were Sid and Dragonfly and my girlfriend Nicole visited us also. And then there was this big, big dog... A funny little man with long hair was also there, always sitting behind a window in a room. I think he was trapped there... Sometimes I saw a young woman with golden hair. And then there was a second big, big dog. And cigarsmoke I think. Well, that's all, sorry.<br /><br />Sid: We spent 5 weeks at the Blue House Studio in Meerane: We had recorded &bdquo;A Legacy of Love&ldquo; there, too, and as this had been a very pleasant and cooperative experience, we decided to record our new album there again. The Producer, Jens Bachmann, who also runs the studio, is a really great guy: He's not the sort of producer who tries to enforce his own idea of sound on a band, but someone who listens carefully to the band&lsquo;s conception and tries to transform their ideas as good as possible into music. Besides, he&lsquo;s a brilliant guitarist as well and we were glad that he liked our new stuff that much that he offered to join us for the recordings.<br /><br />So this time, with the additional support of Kugator on Drums and Tilo Rockstroh on Keyboards, Antichrisis appeared as a "proper" band on an album instead of being just some kind of One-Man-project as it were on previous recordings.<br /><br />We have recorded 10 songs for &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo;: "Something Inside" is a song about someone finding himself trapped in memories of the past, being forced to relive a traumatical situation again and again until he&lsquo;s able to let go off the past. Matching the lyric's character, this song comes up like a haunting nightmare, the accoustic equivalent to lying awake in sleepless nights with torturing thoughts banging against your head.<br /><br />"Gates of Paradise" deals with the subject of being struck down by love but gettin' up again... it's also a song that I've especially written for Dragonfly, and it's the only track on the album where I've done all vocals on my own. The song itself is quite strange: It's based on a shuffle groove, which is normally to be found in traditional Blues or Jazz, but there's also a wall of sound by analogue sequencers, transforming this song into a rather "electronique" shape, whereas the electric guitars pick up the shuffle beat again - pretty weird!<br /><br />"Hole in my Head" is one of the new songs that we've introduced also on last year's tour: It's about the ignorance and blindness of other people towards the things that really matter, about their predilection for self-righteousness and prejudice instead of thinking for a minute of being tolerant. It's a very groovy track, a mixture of TripHop-sounds and heavy guitars.<br /><br />"Carry me Down" is our new interpretation of a song that appeared as "Baleias" on our first album and as "Baleias Bailando" on "A Legacy of Love": This song has become some kind of Antichrisis-theme over the years, and I like the idea to present it on every album in a completely different manner: Though it may still be the same song, it always sounds completely different in order to give some kind of musical summary of Antichrisis&lsquo; current development. This time the song has turned into a bewitching blend of TripHop-Grooves, shamanic chantings and heavy guitars.<br /><br />"Wasteland" is my vision of a perfect pop-tune: Catchy but yet unpredictable! It starts quite mellow and smooth, but as soon as the refrain appears, the guitars break loose. In my point of view, a good pop song shouldn't sound too clean - it always needs a certain kind of racket to disguise its beauty: That makes it much more interesting than offering everything unveiled!<br /><br />With "Like the Stars" we've entered a completely new territory: Our first song coming up with vocals in Rap-style - but don't be afraid: They fit perfectly into the song, the song itself sounds just great and as soon as the refrain starts, you'll be blown away by N&auml;x' enchanting pipes and Dragonfly's backing vocals - another fine example for a perfect pop-tune!<br /><br />And for all of those who thought that Antichrisis would have turned into a bunch of sweet-toothed popsters, there's "We are the Witches": A song that picks up the pagan thread of "Cantara Anachoreta" again, sounding as if Black Sabbath had decided to kick ass again - but this time with bagpipes from hell! Heavy as a ton of lead - and equiped with a refrain that&lsquo;s based on a traditional english witches' Chant.<br /><br />I've been always very satisfied with every Antichrisis-release - there was only one thing that has always bugged me, and that was the very bad version of "Goodbye to Jane" on our first album, because of the vocals that had been done in a very uninspired way by former singer Willowcat. I always wanted to re-record the song again. We did a new and much more powerful version, with brilliant vocals, splendid bagpipes and an absolute unbelievable amount of E-Guitars creating an amazing Wall of Sound.<br /><br />As most of the new songs have turned into really powerful and energetic tracks, I wanted to create some kind of &bdquo;breathing-space&ldquo; on the album as well - and so "Dragonflies" arose in my mind - and when listening to this song you&lsquo;ll find yourself easily at a pond on a warm summer's day, the reflections of sunlight on the water and Dragonflies dancing on its surface... and that's exactly the atmosphere I wanted to capture with this track!<br /><br />The last song on the album and at the same time the first cover-version we&lsquo;ve ever recorded is Led Zeppelin's "Whole lotta Love": I always thought that doing cover-versions is a heavy burden, because one usually doesn't cover bad songs, and it's always hard to beat a classic original or even to match it up, especially if it's such a great song as "Whole lotta Love". So doing a cover version does not mean just to &bdquo;replay&ldquo; an old version, but to show a renown song in a new light without treating it in an unrespectful way... but instead of merely repeating the original&lsquo;s somehow ridiculous machismo-attitude (although Robert Plant undoubtedly did one of his best vocal performances on this track), we've turned it into some kind of feminist-electronic-dancefloor-metal-with-lots-of-bagpipes-and-naughty-noises!<br /><br />All in all, our new album has become a very powerful and vital record: Whereas "A Legacy of Love" was the perfect soundtrack for a cold autumn's evening with candlelight, "Perfume" is meant for dancing and headbanging, preferably in a crowded and sweaty discotheque...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="perfume002s" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry117_1.jpg" width="150" height="154"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sad Side of Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-11-19T13:57:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-116</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-116</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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?</span><br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="sadness" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry116_1.jpg" width="145" height="193"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sound</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-02-28T11:54:51+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-115</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-115</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: The sound of "A Legacy of Love" seems more direct than the one of "Cantara Anachoreta"...<br /></span><br />Sid: Thanks for that compliment... but I'll have to admit that we'd spent more time in the studio than we did when recording "Cantara Anachoreta", and we had better equipment, too. Besides, theres also a mental difference between those 2 albums: The emphasis of "Cantara Anachoreta" was a more spiritual one, whereas "A Legacy of Love" is mainly determined by emotional values. But maybe it's also a question of musical matters, because there are hardly any manipulated sounds to be found on "A Legacy of Love": About 80 % of the sounds we used were created by acoustic instruments, recorded almost without any special sound effects - that's why this album sounds as if you had a strange kind of folk-band in your living-room.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="hmv" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry115_1.jpg" width="250" height="188"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Booklet 2</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-05-05T11:50:43+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-114</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What's the meaning of the cover and the artwork in the booklet of "A Legacy of Love"?</span><br /><br />Sid : The pictures show neolithic paintings and statues & figurines of European Goddesses to emphasize the spiritual aspects of Antichrisis, because all songs on this album are dedicated to the Great Goddess, and to a certain extent "A Legacy of Love" can be seen as a tribute to her.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="goddess-withlover-hacilar" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry114_1.jpg" width="310" height="169"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Inner Conquest</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-11-04T12:46:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-113</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-113</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: In the booklets preface of "A Legacy of Love" you say that both darkness and light are given to us to make us prosper and grow. Do you consider composing and writing as an adventure and what are your inner conquests?</span><br /><br />Sid: I'll have to admit that I haven't got the slightest idea why I had to go through all that tough shit during the time the album was written: O.K., the result of all these emotional misfortunes lead to a very heart-touching album, but if broken-heartedness is the price for the songs on "A Legacy of Love", then this price could be considered much too high! But no need to argue: These things have happened, and I'll have to deal with it somehow, whether I like it or not... There are good times and bad times in everybody's life, and accepting the interplay of both, the necessity of experiencing both to become aware of life's everchanging cycles, might be an important step on our path to self-awareness.<br /><br />Composing and writing songs is just one part of my inner conquest: I would not call it an adventure, furthermore something like a gift that makes it easier for me to come to terms with life.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Iceberg" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry113_1.jpg" width="154" height="227"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Booklet 1</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-02-28T08:43:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-112</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-112</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I suppose you are one of few bands that decided to include the notes in their booklet. What was the reason for doing this?</span><br /><br />Sid : It's just that after the release of "Cantara Anachoreta" many fans have asked for the guitar chords to the songs... but including them in the booklet of "A Legacy of Love" would have made it twice as thick as it already is - and so we thought it'd be nice (and also quite provoking) for all those guitarists to have the pipes-notes instead. As aforesaid: We do have a rather challenging attitude (and also a weird sense of humour) sometimes!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="noten" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry112_1.jpg" width="173" height="221"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Manifesto of Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-09-03T10:38:14+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I think I can easily say that "A Legacy Of Love" is a manifesto of love and friendship: do you think that people influenced by this album have changed their view on these issues or have perhaps discovered a new truth for themselves?<br /></span><br />Sid: We've received lots of feedback to this album, and the reactions to it were quite peculiar: In the beginning, after the album's release, most people were puzzled and confused because they expected a gothic album similar to our debut, "Cantara Anachoreta&rdquo;, so they were not at all prepared for the Folk Pop-experience of &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo;. But after a while they seemed to understand more and more the album's deeper meaning: Gothic Metal would have been a too limited musical diction to express all the feelings I wanted to manifest on that album. My ambition was to create an album that would outlast time, both in form and content, and I think we have achieved that goal: One can tell this easily by all the requests we receive for a re-release of "A Legacy of Love&rdquo; (the album is meanwhile out of stock); seems a bit like if this album was too far ahead of its time and that just now people become aware of its emotional and musical value (and I'm sure it'll be exactly the same with "Perfume")... Many people were touched and moved by "A Legacy of Love", because this album reflects the most primary human experiences of love and loss in an almost painful yet simultaneously beautiful way: Maybe one of its main effects was that it made people realize that they were not alone: No matter if you're in love or if you'd just lost someone you've loved - when you got home at night, there was always this album to provide confirmation and bliss, or consolation and hope. I doubt that "A Legacy of Love" changed anybody's life, but it made them see things in a different way: It made them realize the beauty of love as well as the importance of holding on to one's dreams even if having to face drawbacks from time to time. In the end, that's what art of any kind is all about: to create the state of catharsis for the audience that makes people feel better instead of dragging them down.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="love" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry111_1.jpg" width="180" height="184"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x22;Goodbye to Jane&#x22; - Fiction or Reality?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-08-19T14:29:23+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-110</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: The lyrics on "Goodbye to Jane" deal with a girl being abused by her father. Is this just fiction or a true story of someone you know? And what's your opinion about child abuse?</span><br /><br />Sid: Unfortunately "Goodbye to Jane" is based on that kind of real events that one can read about every day in the papers. It makes me sick to see all that male violence against women - I think that men committing crimes like rape are definitely emotionally deranged yet nevertheless menacing madmen who should get locked away forever!<br /><br />I do think that the story behind "Goodbye to Jane" displays the typical outgrowth of a patriarchal system that denies female values and oppresses women thoroughly. As Marilyn French once put it: There's an unnoticed war going on, a war against women! Our western culture has lost respect for womanhood: Pornography, prostitution, sexual harrassment etc. seem to be quite common today, although all these occurances do indicate that society's out of balance, that we continually disavow our roots (i. e. respect for women, as each and everyone of us got birth by one!), and Jane is just another victim of a development where even children aren't save any more.<br /><br />Maybe I had to write a song like "Goodbye to Jane" to do at least some kind of justice to the vistims, although my words surely fail to describe the terror, the pain, the fear and the hate that a girl like Jane must have experienced and suffered from.<br /><br />The song ends with Jane's suicide - although I'd wish that it'd be the other way round, the victims of male violence don't often have a chance to survive: Either they get kI'lled or they are suffering for the rest of their lifes!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="sexual_abuse_big" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry110_1.jpg" width="170" height="184"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Politicians</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2005-11-05T15:24:24+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-109</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-109</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What do you think of politicians?</span><br /><br />Sid: Let's have a look at good old Douglas Adams, for he has always a lot to offer concerning life, the universe and politics:<br /><br />"One of the major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather who manages to get people to let them do it to them.<br /><br />To summarize: It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem." (taken from "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Chapter 28, by Douglas Adams).<br /><br />There's not much to add to this...I deeply distrust every politician, because I do distrust everyone - no matter if left- of right-wing - who think that governing people is their vocation - in many cases they turn out to be just a bunch of power-hungry villains... as Bob Dylan once put it: "Don't follow leaders - watch the parking meters"; or even more radical with the words of Kevin Rowland of Dexy's Midnight Runners: "The only way to change things: Shoot people who arrange things!".<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="hussein-flowers" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry109_1.jpg" width="150" height="190"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>On the Spur of the Moment</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-02-16T14:19:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Your answers in the interviews I read are usually very witty, do you need some time to make up an answer or are you able to answer right away?<br /></span><br />Sid: I wouldn't consider myself as being witty, but I do try to answer interview-questions as conscientious as possible without taking myself too serious... usually I'm answering questions right away: That's why I prefer telephone interviews, because they are much more of a dialogue.<br /><br />N&auml;x: I have studied the very young science of wit for some three or four years in Bologna, Lissabon, Calcutta and Nowosibirsk (a town which is very famous for the wit of it's citizens), etc. Unfortunately I neither speak any of the languages spoken there nor do I understand them. I also have to admit that I was no good student. Knowing only little about the theories of wit, it takes me a lot of time to write witty answers and I'm very poor in doing that. In fact, I don't like wits - they only make me laugh.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="wilde" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry108_1.jpg" width="136" height="202"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Alcohol</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-08-12T16:15:51+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-107</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-107</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What's your opinion on alcohol - not just as a drink, but as a social phenomenon?</span><br /><br />Sid: People who are not satisfied with their lives will always try to replace the emptiness within themselves with external stimulations, be it alcohol, ecstasy, TV, religious or politcal fanatism etc. And as alcohol is a very easily accessable (and socially tolerated) kind of drug (By the way: It's one of the few drug you pay taxes for so the government profits from its abuse!), it's quite understandable that so many people are addicted to it, because a vast majority of people seems to be a bunch of miserable bastards who are not satisfied at all with what they're doing - but at the same time are much too cowardish, blind or ignorant to change anything about their situation!. It's always easier to get pissed than to face reality... Don't get me wrong: I really enjoy a good pint from time to time, but that always goes along with a good meal. I've had my time of heavy alcohol abuse in the early days of punk, and me and my liver have learned quite a lot from that.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="alcohol-02462" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry107_1.jpg" width="148" height="254"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>About Pornography</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-11-07T06:11:54+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-106</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-106</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: How do you feel when you hear about pornography with children through the Internet nearly every day? Do you think that one day it will be common to watch those pictures on TV?</span><br /><br />Sid : I do hope not - but this male dominated society is a rather sick system, and there's already enough abominable pornographic stuff in the internet and on TV right now! In my point of view, pornography in general is the documentation of the abuse of every female being; and the fact that not only a few men are turned on by pornography and prostitution shows that a majority of the male gender is neither able to develop a healthy sexual self-awareness nor to perceive women as autonomous human beings.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="cupid" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry106_1.jpg" width="150" height="210"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Erotic Literature and Pornography</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-09-27T06:04:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-105</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-105</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Some individuals seem to find erotic literature and pornography (I'm talking about the legal stuff here, not snuff or paedophilia etc.) to be showing women as inferior, while others believe that it's a positive way of portraying the female body, making women more worth in a man's mind. What do you think about this?<br /></span><br />Sid: As the term "pornography" has derived from the Greek term for "presentation of whores", it's quite obvious that pornography doesn't deal with respect for women. Pornography doesn't intend to show women as individuals or subjects, but as sexual objects of men.<br /><br />Pornography is unable to portray the female body in a positive way, even in cases when it tries to hide its true aim under the cloak of "fine arts", because the standards defining the female body are made up - Surprise! Surprise! - by men: They define what or who is to be called "sexy", "beautiful" or "erotic" (although men talking 'bout eroticism is always a bit like a blind talking about colours!)....and after all men have decided that women always look best when being victims: Either victims of male fantasies of rape and violation, or "just" victimised by the way they have to expose and exhibit themselves in front of a camera.<br /><br />Referring to sexuality itself, the majority of men are a bunch of ignorant creeps. Their only sensual interest seems to be reduced to some mindbogglingly obscure movements of their naughty bits, while their sexual stimulation seems to consist of goggling randy at some gynaecologically exposed parts of the female body. They don't see that sexuality is some kind of erotic "culture", which is much more than quick movements of the pelvis.<br /><br />Pornography is nothing more than the product of the sick minds of those scruffy wallies we call "men", and it's jolly obvious that it was never meant to be for the sake of appreciation or adoration of women, but for degrading, abusing and exploiting them.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="erotic 15" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry105_1.jpg" width="155" height="153"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>First Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-12-08T10:38:55+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-104</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: People say that when you fall in love you do not notice anything around any more - was it the same to you when it comes to your first love?</span><br /><br />Sid: To me it's exactly the other way round: When I am in love, I perceive everything around me much clearer - as if I had lived in a two-dimensional world before and now suddenly entered a three-dimensional reality! The sun seems brighter, the nights more enchanting, the moonlight much softer, the air sweeter... everything seems more intensive, more real - but at the same time more magical as well.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="60957146.DSC_1899" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry104_1.jpg" width="240" height="188"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Meaning of Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-12-19T06:35:26+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-103</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-103</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What does the word love mean to you?</span><br /><br />Sid: Love is pure magic, and like every magical power it contains both creative and destructive energies. Come to think about it, the most miserable periods in my life were always caused by the negative outcomes of love (i. e. broken relationships), but at the same time I'm aware that the most beautiful moments were also because of love. If wanting to experience love, one has to be strong enough to face both heaven and hell: The higher one rises, the deeper one falls! In order to avoid all that trouble, you'd have to stay mediocre - but despite of all that I've gone through, this would not be my cup of tea, anyway!<br /><br />There's a wonderful song by Hazel O'Connor that goes: "If I had another chance, I would have the same romance with you and life, the happiness and the knife. If I had that time again I'd change it not another way..." - and I guess the same goes for me: I'll never regret to have loved, even if it always ended in tears. But there's no price to high for love, and if you do love, you have to accept the fact that it makes you very vulnerable, that it might even kill you. It's a question of all or nothing, I'm afraid. Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote about this: "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, it gives a lovely light". Or, with Tennyson's words: "Tis better to have loved and lost than never loved at all".<br /><br />To me, love is the most sincere and honest feeling, a divine power that can make us goddesses and gods, a feeling that is equiped with closeness, truth, respect and unconditional faith. I don't know if this is just an ideal that'll never become reality, but even if the quest for true love should be bound to fail: Wouldn't life be rather poor without this dream?<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Depeche-Mode-The-Meaning-Of-Lo-7898" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry103_1.jpg" width="187" height="174"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Love or Hate</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2003-02-20T06:32:02+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-102</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-102</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Do you think that love is far away from hate? What is more difficult: to love or to hate?</span><br /><br />Sid: I think love and hate cannot be put on the same level with each other, because while both being undoubtedly powerful emotions they are nevertheless of completely different derivations: You have to have a reason for hating someone, but you dont have to have a reason for love! On the other hand, love can easily turn into hate sometimes, as I've tried to explain in "Trying not to breathe" with the line "I hate you and I love you for what youve done to me": If the one you love leaves you, then two strong emotions are fighting against each other within yourself, and this is nothing but a horrible outburst of devastition! Being torn apart between love and hate is a most dangerous process, because it can easily end in self-destruction: Someone broke your heart, but you still love her/him because of the good times you've shared, and at the same time you hate that person because she/he has the power to make you feel so tremendously bad - it's like being a small iron particle in the centre between two strong magnets: Unable to move and unable to escape... Nevertheless I think it's much easier to love than to hate, although I don't deny the fact that hate is a very vigorous and vital force in human life; but as you have to have a cause for hating someone or something - unless you're a complete weirdo - hate is a rational-based state of mind, whereas love with its ability to strike you sometimes out of the blue is definitely a spiritual force. If you have a reason to hate someone, then do it - justified hate has to be lived through with all its consequences in order to keep your inner equilibrium, and you'll feel a whole lot better after you've gone through it. But hate can only be an ulterior motive for a certain time, it has to find its end at some stage, at the latest when it's achieved its object - otherwise it'll burn you out and leave you all barren, whereas love can go on forever and ever without doing any harm at all: There is no end to unconditional love because it is the divine impetus of life itself: The more you love, the more you'll obtain!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="night-of-the-hunter" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry102_1.jpg" width="188" height="192"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>True Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-11-26T06:28:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What is your definition of true love?</span><br /><br />Sid: That's difficult to explain: To me, love is like the most beautiful song ever heard, like dissolving in an endless sea of light and passion, having found what you've been looking for all your life, drowning in your lover's eyes, a blissful dream without end - but also being there whenever you're needed, always standing by your lover's side whatever may come, always being sincere and true to the one you're with etc. There are too many facets to true love than can be mentioned, I'm afraid.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="true" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry101_1.jpg" width="262" height="185"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Oppositions</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-04-29T06:25:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-100</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: With your sort of pagan influenced view of the world, how do you see love and life as opposed to war and death?</span><br /><br />Sid: Death belongs to the natural cycle of love and life, whereas war is a destructive force made up by sick human minds. According to my point of view, death is not the end, but the transition to another level of existance. Love is the ultimate source of everything, a power that brings growth, splendidness and fruitfulness. As long as love exists, there is always hope and faith and beauty... of course there's also a dark side of love, but this aspect only arises from disappointment and betrayal by humans; i. e. the lack of the pure energy of love - but I guess I've said enough about that darker side in some songs like "The Sea" or "The Farewell".<br /><br />N&auml;x: I like love more than war and death. Death is a part of the big game and I don't fear it. Just trying to be prepared.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="ElMantoWaterfall2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry100_1.jpg" width="197" height="181"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Heaven and Hell</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-02-01T06:21:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-99</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-99</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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?<br /></span><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />If we really wanted to create heaven on Earth, we could do that easily... but that goes also for hell!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="the_Damned" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry99_1.jpg" width="154" height="206"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Death</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-06-18T06:16:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-98</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-98</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What comes to your mind when you thing of Death?</span><br /><br />Sid: Definitely one of my favourite characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld-Novels. Speaks in capital letters most of the time.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="tod-gitarre-retusch" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry98_1.jpg" width="138" height="190"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Sense of Life and Death</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-06-18T06:14:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-97</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-97</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What is the sense of life/death in your point of view?<br /></span><br />Sid: The sense of life? To love and to be loved. The sense of death? To learn, to grow and to let go. To live is like being a drop of rain that falls down to earth, and to die is like floating back into the ocean again... <br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Life and Death" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry97_1.jpg" width="192" height="144"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Religion in general</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-01-18T19:32:03+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-96</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-96</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: I do sense some anti-Christian undertones in some of your lyrics. Do you have an opinion on religion in general?</span><br /><br />Sid : As I am a very religious person myself I can't see anything wrong in believing in "higher" powers, but organized religion like Christianity is always a dangerous thing: I mean, who needs to have his or her personal beliefs organised by an institution? It's utterly senseless! Go and think for your own (as Granny Weatherwax would say), believe whatever you want to believe, but never try to force your religious point of view on others! The Goddesses and Gods are among us, they are in the wind, the trees, the fire, the earth and the sea and they'd also talk to us if we listened closely - but they most definitely don't write books and are not interested in anybody's sexual preferences (at least proper deities aren't!).<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="acff7df" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry96_1.jpg" width="192" height="187"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Christian Connotations</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2003-04-19T19:27:52+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-95</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-95</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What comes to your mind when you hear the word christianity?<br /></span><br />Sid: Christianity means nothing to me but a religious fraud: Though it is pretending to be about love, it sows the seed of hate and intolerance - and a damn lethal seed it is as one can tell by the track of blood christendom has left in history!<br /><br />That doesn't mean that I'd disdain any person who's a christian believer...nope, everyone's free to believe what he/she likes as long as they're not harming any other living being; and if they think christianity's their cup of tea then good luck to them: It certainly isn't mine!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="203" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry95_1.jpg" width="183" height="224"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>God and Goddess</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2004-03-11T19:23:37+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-94</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-94</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What comes to your mind when you think of the following items:</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#CCBE70;">God?</span><br /><br />Sid: A hoity-toity nincompoop who should be voted out of office straight away as he does obviously a lousy job!<br /><br /><span style="color:#CCBE70;">Goddess?</span><br /><br />Sid: The promising opposition candidate I'd be voting for!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="pic-ram_laxman" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry94_1.jpg" width="173" height="228"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Christian Definition of Love</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-07-03T19:11:12+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-93</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-93</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What do you think about the Christian definition of love?</span><br /><br />Sid: The Christian definition of love is a contradiction in itself: One can't love everyone! You may forgive your enemies if you're able to (which in my book is saintly enough!), but you'll never love them for what they've done to you (given that we're talking about real enemies (fiendish ones!) and not just some daft dorks you accidentally happen to have a slight grudge against!). Really loving someone however is divine in all its aspects, which includes sexuality as well - there's nothing ungodly or immoral about it: If love is of divine origin, then our bodies are the temples and making love is our prayer!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="362-Christ Love" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry93_1.jpg" width="187" height="155"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Future Prospects</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-10-13T19:06:30+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-92</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-92</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Human race has destroyed large parts of nature. What do you think about this abuse? What do you think will the world be looking like in another 10 years?<br /></span><br />Sid : It makes me sad to see that most people don't give a damn about environmental problems! We're consequently destroying what we depend on, and sooner or later we will be running out of resources completely.<br /><br />We have lost our respect for Mother Earth; instead of venerating and honouring her for being our source of life, we're exploiting her until the bitter end... but we do depend on her, not she on us; we are - all in all - weak children needing HER nourishment, HER shelter and HER fertility, but we have lost this awareness because of our mindbogglingly stupid presumption! I don't know what the future might bring, but I think quite soon the Earth might just get rid off us like from some insignificant cosmic pneumonia: Earth will bloom and flourish again long after humankind has fallen into oblivion.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="motherearth" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry92_1.jpg" width="162" height="223"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ireland</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-04-07T19:01:24+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-91</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-91</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Why do you think is Ireland, the cradle of such beautiful music, torn apart by such stupid religious conflicts?</span><br /><br />Sid: Because this country is a perfect example for the fatal combination of religious intolerance, historical injustice, and human stupidity! This conflict will never find an end as long as it's so much easier for some to hate than to forgive, and as long as there are always a few who stand to gain by the suffering of the people! Fancy that those who preach war and violence and who try to instigate the masses to carry on fighting are never those who have to bleed or suffer from destitution. But people love to follow leaders instead starting to think for themselves... <br /><br />N&auml;x: The Irish conflict is a political conflict hidden behind former religious problems, which are the result of the migration of people forced by English policy. As the Irish majority is tired of the civil war, I hope that the extremists of both sides give up their out-dated opinions, get into dialogue and finish their bloody fight that is of no use to anybody.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="ira" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry91_1.jpg" width="173" height="206"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sherwood Forest</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-10-20T18:38:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-89</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-89</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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?</span><br /><br />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".<br /><br />N&auml;x: 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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="robin-hood-1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry89_1.jpg" width="200" height="296"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Germany</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-05-25T18:34:03+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-88</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-88</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What comes to your mind when you think of Germany?</span><br /><br />Sid: Could be a lovely little country if it weren't for those blasted Germans...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="1a" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry88_1.jpg" width="246" height="204"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>European Union</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-06-02T18:24:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-87</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-87</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Do you think the imposition of the EU laws and standards will help with things like sexism, racism, disrespect for nature?</span><br /><br />N&auml;x: Oh, I like EU laws. They have great effects on the measures of bananas and condoms - two things that definitely belong together!<br /><br />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!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="european_union-1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry87_1.jpg" width="220" height="164"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nighttime</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-04-14T18:21:26+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-86</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-86</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: What comes to your mind when you think of the night?<br /></span><br />Sid: Quite useful device as it helps to save daylight.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="img_desy-night" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry86_1.jpg" width="135" height="180"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Previous Lifes</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-04-09T17:30:19+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-84</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-84</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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?<br /></span><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="sp_time7" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry84_1.jpg" width="162" height="163"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musical Development</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-10-27T16:27:42+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-83</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-83</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: When did your interest in music start? And how was your musical development?</span><br /><br />Sid: My first-time acquaintance with music started with listening to Roy Orbison (him of the sunglasses at night and the angelic voice!) on the good old valve radio (those were the days!), subsequently superseded by Glam-Rock-protuberances like T. Rex, Gary Glitter. Slade, Sweet and (hold on!) The Kursaal Flyers (maybe that's why they call it the awkward age?). But shortly after my 14th. birthday, being on holiday somewhere in the outback of Bavaria (no rude comments, please!), some blessed DJ player "God save the Queen" by the later-to-be-awful Sex Pistols (them of the plugged bass-player) on the wireless , and from that very moment I turned into a punk (or a monster in my poor mother's humble opinion) without being kissed by your obligatory princess. Blimey, it was just my luck being a punk in a little quaint village that seemed to be bogged down somewhere between the Palaeozoic and the Precambrian era on the evolutionary scale!<br /><br />As entering upon a punk career meant getting utterly fucked up almost every night, I thought I'd do a favour to my hepatitis if I went into that Dark Wave/Gothic-business instead, which to everyone's surprise served me pretty well during the next 5 years: The likes of Joy Division, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Theatre of Hate, Christian Death (them of the good-looking singer!), Throbbing Gristle (them of the grotty singer) or Cindytalk weren't exactly what one would call a boisterous bunch, but after all they made me give up drinking (would have been too much fun, I guess).<br /><br />A couple of years later I accidentally realized that Irish Folk could be even more melancholic and depressing than any CURE-album, and by getting myself an acoustic guitar, I turned out to be a Neo-hippie long before Tracy Chapman or The Walkabouts were invented - and I also found out that buskin' is a hard way of earning money as well as having some extra-ordinary one-night-stands....no wonder there was still no sign of the princess!<br /><br />After one wicked weekend (we're talking about the golden age of every weekend being amazingly wicked!) I was feeling kind of sentimental and put on the dead-gorgeous "Pretty Vacant"-single by the later-to-be-unnecessarily-reunified Sex Pistols, but unfortunately the record player (that popular stone-age device for listening to music before CD-players were invented!) was on 33 1/3 rpm instead of the much more suitable 45 rpm - and that bungling of mine suddenly turned into pure enlightenment: Punk did sound so much more annoying if played at lower speed! But a few months later I had to find out that some creeps had nicked this brilliant invention of mine and called it "Doom Metal" - you just can't trust nobody!<br /><br />To cut a long story short: Some time in the Nineties I thought it would sound quite nice throwing all my musical preferences in the big boiling cauldron and seasoning the strange dish with a strong dash of pop music - and that's the way Antichrisis got on the menu!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="SidNaex" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry83_1.jpg" width="226" height="124"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Ancient Cultures</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-05-28T16:22:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-82</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-82</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: You do seem to be fascinated by ancient cultures, am I right?</span><br /><br />Sid: Yes, you are: I'm interested in matriarchal cultures all over the world, especially in those of Northern-European, pre-Celtic origin.<br /><br />I do also admire Celtic Art: I remember having seen photographs of early Celtic Art when I was about 14 years old, and from that very moment I've been fascinated by the rich symbolism and the beauty of that artistic school; and so I tried to go deeper into Celtic Culture, reading every available book that I could lay my hands on. I spent about 10 or 12 years on reading and learning until I began actually understanding the spirit of all I've read about, which goes far beyond plain knowledge - spiritual awareness cannot be learned, it has to be experienced. Of course it was of great importance to me to gain knowledge through literature, but really experiencing the Celtic Spirit happened when I visited some of the ancient quoits in England and Ireland and listened to the old ballads not only with my ears, but with my heart!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Kreta" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry82_1.jpg" width="153" height="240"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Line-ups</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2005-12-24T16:10:21+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-81</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-81</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Antichrisis were a band always sort of veiled in mystery as to the people behind the monicker. Your debut was a creation of one Moonshadow, while on the second record there are completely different people. Can you throw some light on your line-up development and also what's the line-up now?</span><br /><br />Sid: Well, It may come to you as a surprise, but Moonshadow and me are just the same person! Moonshadow was my pseudonyme on "Cantara Anachoreta", but because of some drastic personal experiences I decided not to use this name any longer and picked up my "normal" name again. I also wanted to make clear that the audience shouldn't focus on the people behind Antichrisis, but on the music of Antichrisis itself, and with letting Moonshadow "die" (on a metaphorical level) I tried to make clear that I do not want any idolization or anything like that - All that counts is the music itself!<br /><br />So "Cantara Anachoreta", Antichrisis' first album, was done almost on my own, with support of former guest-singer Willowcat. That cooperation wasn't very satisfying on the long run, so I was searching for a new female singer who I found in Lisa. She did a very good job on Antichrisis' second album "A Legacy of Love", but as she had been just a guest-vocalist as well, the search for a permanent member went on and found it's end when I met Dragonfly, who turned out to be the female vocalist on &ldquo;Perfume&rdquo;.<br /><br />N&auml;x, the "Prince of Pipes", joined Antichrisis shortly after the release of "Cantara Anachoreta", and we got on together very well from the beginning, musically as well as personally. He is a great and gifted musician who has become a vital part of Antichrisis since then and who likes to do weird interviews.<br /><br />While Dragonfly left the band in 2003, being replaced by Katja Bartsch in 2005, the other guys appearing on "Perfume" (Jens "Gnu" Bachmann on guitars, Tilo "Waran" Rockstroh on Keyboards and Kugator on drums) mneanwhile have become permanent members of Antichrisis, too, and appeared on "A Legacy of Love Mark II" along with classical singer Frank W. Hennig.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Moonshadow" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry81_1.jpg" width="340" height="255"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Confessions</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-12-13T16:05:05+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-80</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-80</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">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?<br /></span><br />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...<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="confess" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry80_1.jpg" width="300" height="225"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Can Music change the World?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-01-31T16:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-79</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-79</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Do you still believe that your music - or just music in general - might change the cruel world or people?</span><br /><br />Sid: No, not at all: The only thing or person that I can change is myself - and working on or performing the music of Antichrisis always causes vast changes within myself; it's like communicating with my deeper self, like encountering my ancient soul's wisdom!<br /><br />People may be influenced to a certain extent by Antichrisis music (or music in general), they may even find themselves reflected in my or anybody else's songs, but my songs are not meant to change anyone and it's also not in my power to cause such effects! People can only change themselves if they have the will and the ability to do so, and sometimes certain songs may enhance social awareness or can be sort of guidelines... but nothing more!<br /><br />N&auml;x: Neither literature, drama, music nor other arts are able to change the cruelty in the world or cruel people. This can only be tried (unsuccessfully) by a strong community of upright people. These upright people may find recreation and power in arts, but art itself changes nothing.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Change" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry79_1.jpg" width="195" height="280"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Still being fameless</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-08-06T15:54:39+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-78</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-78</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Antichrisis has released 3 excellent albums so far, but hasn't achieved that much recognition. Do you have an explanation for that phenomenon?</span><br /><br />Sid : Thanks for your compliment. I guess the point about Antichrisis being not that popular as it deserves to be (at least in my humble opinion) is that Antichrisis is not "trendy" enough! It's not easy for the audience to "consume" our music, because the music itself challenges a listener's open-mindedness! If you listen to a Cradle of Filth-album for example, you'll always know what the next song on the CD might probably sound like, because bands like CoF as well as many others are strictly limited to just one musical style... but if you listen to an Antichrisis-album for the very first time, it's simply impossible to predict what'll come next - or would you have expected a Pop-tune like "Nightswan" after the Intro ("How can I live on top of the mountain?") on our 2nd. album? And even if you think you might have got the idea behind Antichrisis, then the next album will be completely different from the last one...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Phenomen" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry78_1.jpg" width="299" height="148"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Playing Live</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-06-15T15:49:45+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-77</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-77</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Have you ever played live? I would be really interested in your gigs which must be a great experience. Another band I know once mentioned that their dream would be to play in an ancient church. Have you ever thought similarly about this as well?<br /></span><br />Sid : We have actually been playing live when touring Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands) together with Tristania, The Sins of thy Beloved, Siebenb&uuml;rgen and Trail of Tears in spring 1999, but it wasn't exactly a satisfying experience for us: Poor organisation, lack of essential equipment, bad promotion and other unpleasant circumstances made this some kind of "Tour de Force" - 19 gigs within 3 weeks without a day off, surrounded by a horde of permanently drunken Scandinavians wasn't that much fun! Anyway, we tried to make the best out of it and act as professional as possible (quite tricky if you haven't the chance to do soundchecks!), so we could at least prove the audience that Antichrisis is also a splendid live-act! Unfortunately Naex couldn't be with us on that tour, as he had to pass his exams at that time, so the tour-band included just me, Dragonfly, Brown Jenkin on Guitar, a mad session drummer and our japanese friend Roland on Keyboards and Sequencer.<br /><br />Nevertheless I do enjoy live performances, although I'd prefer an old pagan temple to a Christian building for an Antichrisis-gig - as long as there are enough sockets somewhere: Otherwise it'd be a rather "unplugged" experience (which wouldn't mean a serious problem to Antichrisis either, as we're capable of doing an acoustic set as well!).<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Ancient Chruch" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry77_1.jpg" width="223" height="166"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Melancholy or Beauty?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2002-10-25T15:29:41+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-76</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-76</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Question: Which are the main feelings you want to transport through your music? Would it be melancholy or beauty - or both?<br /></span><br />Sid: The main idea behind Antichrisis is that music and lyrics as an undividable entity should be a reflection of my soul, a mirror of my dreams, my visions, my desires and my emotions. Hence this music is of very personal and intimate matter, for it reveals my inner self completely.<br /><br />Melancholy and beauty are both part of my world of emotions, as well as love and hate, sadness and joy, fear and hope, strength and weakness, desire and lust, depression and confidence... it would be impossible to list all the emotional states I am or have been going through, but nevertheless they're all reflected in my songs - and that's exactly what I want to transmit to the listener: The heart and soul of me, my emotions with all their shades and nothing else.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="shrine_melancholy" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry76_1.jpg" width="228" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Clannad or Mike Oldfield?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-08-13T17:46:20+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-75</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-75</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">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...</span><br /><br />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...<br /><br />N&auml;x: Well, I personally think that it is nearly impossible to reach Clannad's standard, but be assured that we're working on it.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Clannad" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry75_1.jpg" width="161" height="234"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gifted Musicians</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-03-10T17:36:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-74</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-74</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: Were you born as a gifted musician or how did you manage to play so many instruments?</span><br /><br />Sid: I wouldn't say I'm gifted - I've never learned to play any instrument properly, and I'm not at all a "good" musician if it comes to technical skills: All I know is how to hold a guitar (pointed end in the air, right?) and how to play a few basic chords - that's it. My so called talent lies in writing and arranging songs so that they sound as if one had to be pretty smart to perform them...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Guitar" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry74_1.jpg" width="121" height="233"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Language</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1998-03-21T16:49:32+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-73</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-73</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">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?<br /></span><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="antony-and-cleopatra" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry73_1.jpg" width="214" height="204"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Not a Gothic Metal Band</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1997-01-24T16:45:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-72</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-72</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: According to you, what distinguishes you from the average gothic-metal stereotype?<br /></span><br />Sid: The mere fact that Antichrisis ain't a gothic metal band! Like a painter uses a multitude of colours to create a landscape, I'm using different musical ingredients to form the soundscape of Antichrisis - and Gothic or Metal are just two shades of a thousand and one musical colours of my palette...<br /><br />Antichrisis can only be categorized by emotional values, not by any assignments of musical styles!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="red-panda" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry72_1.jpg" width="245" height="184"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Background Influences</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-09-02T16:42:02+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-71</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-71</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: In which ways have you succeeded in mixing your obviously various background influences to such a wonderful and unique sound?<br /></span><br />Sid: I do listen to a large variety of different musical styles, be it Punk, Folk, Metal, Classical Music, Dark Wave, Medieval Music, Country & Western, Reggae, TripHop a. s. o., and one can learn a lot just by listening carefully to different styles - hence theres a multitude of influences reflected in Antichrisis, which makes it quite impossible to describe the sound of this band without ending up with a slightly dumb expression like Medieval-Celtic- Folk-Doom-Black-Gothic-Britpop-Dark- Wave-Grunge-Ballad- Metal or something stupid like that....Antichrisis can't be described in musical terms except with adjectives like unique, refreshing or thrilling. I mean there are bands that do sound like Joy Division, bands that sound like Massive Attack or bands that sound like The Pogues - but there's only one band being able to come up with a compound of all these and many more musical ingredients while still creating its very own musical vision - and that's Antichrisis!<br /><br />I don't bloody care about artistic limitations: Inspiration comes in any shape it likes, and it'd be a shame trying to restrict it to just one kind of musical expressiveness - if a song comes to me as a folk ballad, I'll translate it exactly that way into music; if it comes to me as a piece of gloomy doom metal, I'll have to let it happen that way! Musical limitation means standstill to an artists creativity.<br /><br />Take "Forever I Ride" for example, where you'll find at least four different musical patterns within one song: It starts like an up-tempo folk-song introducing a medieval brass band in the bridge, then turns into a stirring metal-refrain, followed by a bewitching atmospheric ballad with fairy-like vocals, when suddenly a ravishing black metal-part with a powerful female lead and wistful Irish bagpipes emerges a.s.o. - there are bands who would make at least 3 complete albums out of the ideas that I've put into just one song!<br /><br />All ideas for the songs of Antichrisis derive from the spiritual world, hence this music shows such large variety: Spiritual inspiration doesn't care about boundaries of musical style; it comes in any shape it likes and I am nothing more but an interpreter in the literal meaning of the word: If a song comes to me as a folk ballad, I'll translate it exactly that way, if it comes as a groovy TripHop-tune, I'll have to let it happen that way - and sometimes the contents of a song ask for more than just one kind of musical expression!<br /><br />I do not actually create songs: They come to me like dreams or visions any time they want, they are prodigies of inspiration and that is why I actually cannot plan or propose anything - it's like sitting by a river-bank, watching the petals, leaves, boughs or other things floating by while picking up the most remarkable ones. To me it's a sacred act of inspiration, a gift of the Goddess, and I am most grateful being able to transform this divine inspiration into words and tunes. The songs do seem to create themselves as they go along, both musically and lyrically. All that's left for me to do is giving them a certain shape like a gardener trimming a tree!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="tree" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry71_1.jpg" width="200" height="267"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Monicker</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-04-29T16:38:26+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-70</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-70</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: I'd like to know the reasons about your choice of Antichrisis as monicker...</span><br /><br />Sid: Antichrisis is a greek anagramm meaning "Sacred Dances to honour Queen Isis", and it stands for the pagan-matriarchal tradition that Antichrisis was and still is connected with. There's absolutely no satanic or whatsoever background, as many people presumed who misspelled the bands name as "Antichrist"...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="isis" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry70_1.jpg" width="286" height="229"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Of Germany</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-02-24T16:29:33+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-69</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-69</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: The band is located in Germany, however your names do not sound German at all - what's your / their origin?</span><br /><br />Sid: We're definitely of german origin, although I don't care that much about nationalities....I used to live in England in my teenage days where I caught my nickname "Sid" (because of my predilection for the later-to-be-stone-dead Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious) - and somehow I got used to it.....<br /><br />N&auml;x' real name is Alexander, but he never revealed the mystery behind his nickname to me... I guess it has something to do with his sometimes very wicked sense of humour!<br /><br />N&auml;x: The origins of the name N&Auml;X lie in the very old past. It was created by a shamane named RENREW, when he went into mystic trance (caused by wodka, I think). The myths around this name are some of the last unanswered questions of this word.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="map-of-germany" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry69_1.jpg" width="168" height="226"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Missa Depositum Custodi</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-08-14T16:23:40+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-68</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-68</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: In Summer 1995 the debut demo "Missa Depositum Custodi" was released: Seems it was a great success in the underground, but it seems that it was mainly sold in Germany. What do you think about the demo nowadays? Should you have worked longer on the material before recording it or is it exactly the way you wanted it to be?</span><br /><br />Sid: There has been an edition of 500 copies of "Missa Depositum Custodi", and it has been sold-out within 6 months after its release, which is quite good for the first demo of a newcomer. You are right: Most of the copies were sold in Germany, just a few in Greece and Italy. There hasn't been a 2nd. Edition because as the demo got Antichrisis a record contract, it had fulfilled its purpose and is now simply a collector's item.<br /><br />I still like "Missa Depositum Custodi" because whereas the sound of the subsequently released album "Cantara Anachoreta" is much better with the songs being performed much straighter, the demo with its more "baroque" attitude and insufficient sound (that's homerecording for you!) nevertheless manages to create an own special atmosphere. Of course many things could have been done better, but I consider recordings as some kind of snapshot: The attraction lies in the spontaneity and not on some perfect technical standards - true feelings are always miles away from being immaculate, I guess! "Missa Depositum Custodi" is simply the best I could come up with at the time I recorded it.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="header_2x_64" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry68_1.jpg" width="161" height="206"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Nightwish Syndrome</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2003-12-04T23:18:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-67</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-67</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: Many gothic metal bands have used female vocals very well but also in excess nowadays. How do you feel about it? What is the main difference between a female and a male musician to you?</span><br /><br />Sid : Yes, it seems that the Nightwish-syndrome has taken over the gothic metal-scene, quite often in order to disguise the male singer's incapacity, but that point doesn't concern us at all: I am a pretty good vocalist myself, but I like the idea of integrating a female voice because of the different colour that this vocals provide to the big picture of Antichrisis.<br /><br />This doesn't necessarily mean that I'd prefer the male voice being responsible for the aggressive or powerful parts of the music whereas the female singer does all the soft and lyrical bits - this kind of stereotype is much too predictable and boring, hence I'm simply avoiding this mode of operation.<br /><br />The difference between a male and a female musician? I don't see any difference in general because in my book musicianship doesn't depend on sexual categories, just on artistic ones - and if it comes to singing, it's merely reduced to the fact that there are not that many men able to sing soprano, whereas women hardly reach the pitch level of the bass.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="nightwish" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry67_1.jpg" width="198" height="270"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>About Musicians</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-09-30T22:48:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-66</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-66</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: When listening to your vocal performances, I can detect a certain passion and also an ability of acting in different characters. It seems that you're identifying yourself with each song. What do you think is the quality of a good singer? And don't you think that many young bands of today's scene do not feel real passion for what they're doing?</span><br /><br />Sid: Being a good singer requires the ability to re-live the situation of the song you're singing: Song and singer have to melt into one, the song's story has to become part of the vocalist's emotional world. This is only possible if the lyrics do reflect your feelings and experiences - then singing a song can become something similar to playing the leading role in a drama: Like every good actor you have to become another character, reveal other facets of the human soul. A good singer is always able to immerse into a world of its own when singing a song.<br /><br />A musician - just like every proper artist - has to be a visionaire; if not, his art would be nothing more than mere craftsmanship. Many young bands seem to care more about meeting an audience's expectation or copying their idols instead of developing their own musical language - that's not vision, but a frame without a picture! All that matters is musical inspiration, the artist's vision - and not image or outfit!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Aus der Zwischenablage" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry66_1.jpg" width="251" height="209"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Black Metal</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-03-17T21:49:07+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-65</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-65</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: What comes to your mind when you think of Black Metal?</span><br /><br />Sid: Just another fake teenage rebellion by predominantly male middle-class nitwits going through puberty, obviously taking pulp literature, b-movies and themselves much too seriously.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Tai_Shan" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry65_1.jpg" width="256" height="168"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Music is my Heartbeat</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2001-01-18T21:43:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-64</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-64</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: Sid, you were born in 1962: What makes you continue in the fields of music after all these years. Perhaps music is such a large part of yourself and your life that you simply couldn't live without it?<br /></span><br />Sid: Yes, music is one of the most essential gists in my life - it's like a prayer to me, a divine gift of the Goddess allowing me to express my feelings, my visions and dreams that would otherwise be unutterable...<br /><br />Music is so much more than just a hobby to me: It's the rhythm of my life, and I always feel like a dancer between the worlds when performing my songs.<br /><br />I do not think that music is a matter of age: It only depends on how devoted you are. If it's just a pastime, then you'll lay down your guitar as soon as you've settled down and other things have become more important. But if you're a passionate musician, nothing will stop you from expressing your emotions through melodies, harmonies and rhythms.<br /><br />Of course my musical taste has changed through all these years: Although I still listen to that old school of '77 Brit-Punk (Those were the days... sigh!), I'm nowadays also listening to classical stuff, Irish Folk, TripHop, Country & Western and Reggae (just to name a few): As long as it is a "good" song, I don't care about any musical styles...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="TVT-26-10-62" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry64_1.jpg" width="210" height="283"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Preferred Music</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>1999-10-11T21:39:55+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-63</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-63</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: What is your preferred music today and do you listen to underground bands as well?</span><br /><br />Sid: I listen to a large variety of music: Classical stuff, Dub Reggae, Country & Western, Celtic Folk, TripHop, Punk (hence I love internet radio, as it gives me the chance to listen to stuff that would never be played on the ordinary airwaves!) - just to name a few: I don't make any differences between underground or commercial bands as long as the music itself does send shivers down my spine (which is quite hard these days, as I have to admit!).<br /><br />N&auml;x: I listen to Irish Folk Music and latin-american stuff from Cuba and Peru a lot. My favourite underground bands are The Chieftains and Afro Cuban All Stars... oh yes, and Buena Vista Social Club is also fuckin&lsquo; great!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="515428_356x237" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry63_1.jpg" width="356" height="237"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Playing Live</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-07-03T21:33:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-62</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-62</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Your music style has little to do with metal now, wouldn't it be perhaps more fit to play with different kind of bands, at least SKYCLAD, SUBWAY TO SALLY, IN EXTREMO or even better CHIEFTAINS?<br /></span><br />N&auml;x: No, I only want to play with bands that are really famous. ;-)<br /><br />Sid: Although all aformentioned bands are very good, I'd prefer to play with bands/artists like Magnetic Fields, Hidden Cameras or Bruce Springsteen (no kidding!) if I had the choice... Of course Antichrisis is not a metal band, and I have been explaining in interviews again and again that Antichrisis can never be limited to just one musical style. We do use some metal influences as well as influences from every other kind of music that we happen to like - be it Folk, Dark Wave, Classic, Dancefloor, Rock, Pop, TripHop a.s.o., so calling us a metal-band would be just as wrong as calling us a Folk-band, Grunge-band or any other kind-of-just-one-category-band. In my point of view, we're nothing else than just a slightly different Pop-band!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="chieftains" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry62_1.jpg" width="288" height="203"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Tour Impressions</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2000-02-23T21:30:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-61</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-61</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Question: Antichrisis have played one tour so far, as far as I know: what were your impressions from playing live?</span><br /><br />N&auml;x: I didn't play on the tour because I was studying wit in Brazil down by the river Amazonas. Very interesting.<br /><br />Sid: I do love to play live, but the technical and organizational circumstances hadn't been too good on the aforementioned tour. Nevertheless, talking to the fans after the show always was a pleasant experience - it was very impressive to see how much our songs meant to them... and I guess it was kind of surprising to them to see that the people behind Antichrisis are not your average semi-depressed Gothic-geezers, but a bunch of quite easy to get along with people, even if some of us were temporarily absent, pretending to do some quite dubious wit-researches down in Brazil.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild 41" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry61_1.jpg" width="192" height="144"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; January 2005</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2005-01-30T16:47:15+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-60</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-60</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />Finally the time of waiting is over!<br /><br />&ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; has been released recently on Reartone Records. <br /><br />All songs have seen a vast musical enhancement, they've been re-recorded and re-arranged from the ground. Both cover and booklet habe been re-designed to match the songs and their contents in a much better way. The new editing of the entire album allowed us to add the formerly unavailable &ldquo;End of December&rdquo; as bonus track.<br /><br />Overall the album sounds much more consolidated now: The new interpretation of its songs has succeeded in taking the exhausted predecessor &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; to a new level of musical and emotional experience.<br /><br />In order to avoid the the price policy of the greedy music biz, we have chosen a different kind of distribution channel, hence for the time being &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; will be available through <a href="http://www.playbaker.com/s/content.cgi?store=cd&category=16&menu=3&cd=1111&action=cd" rel="external">www.playbaker.com</a> only. This allows us to offer the album much cheaper than your average digipack edition.<br /><br />That&rsquo;s all for today - we&rsquo;ll keep you informed about further developments!<br /><br />Best wishes to all of you!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-61" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry60_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; Januar 2005</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2005-01-30T16:44:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-59</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-59</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans!<br /><br />Das Warten hat ein Ende!<br /><br />&ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; wurde k&uuml;rzlich als Digipack in v&ouml;llig neuer gestalterischer und musikalischer Bearbeitung auf Reartone Records ver&ouml;ffentlicht. <br /><br />Die Songs wurden musikalisch weiter entwickelt, neu arrangiert und eingespielt. Das Booklet wurde optisch den Songinhalten angepasst und somit ebenfalls komplett &uuml;berarbeitet und neu gestaltet.<br /><br />Durch die neue Interpretation und Verk&uuml;rzung einzelner St&uuml;cke konnte das in der fr&uuml;heren Version entfallene &ldquo;End of December" als Bonustrack in die Titelliste mit aufgenommen werden.<br /><br />Insgesamt wirkt das Album durch die erfolgte &Uuml;berarbeitung wesentlich kompakter und erlebt durch die musikalischen Neuinterpretationen eine gelungene Weiterentwicklung gegen&uuml;ber der vergriffenen Original-Version &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo;.<br /><br />Um die unfaire Preispolitik der Musikindustrie auszuhebeln haben wir uns f&uuml;r ein Vertriebsmodell entschieden, das es uns erm&ouml;glicht, &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; trotz aufwendiger Gestaltung und des mit der Neueinspielung betriebenen Aufwands wesentlich g&uuml;nstiger als vergleichbare CD's anbieten zu k&ouml;nnen. Aus diesem Grund wird das Album zun&auml;chst ausschliesslich &uuml;ber <a href="http://www.playbaker.com/s/content.cgi?store=cd&category=16&menu=3&cd=1111&action=cd" rel="external">www.playbaker.de</a> zu beziehen sein.<br /><br />So viel f&uuml;r heute - wir werden euch &uuml;ber unsere weiteren Aktivit&auml;ten an dieser Stelle auf dem Laufenden halten.<br /><br />Mit den besten Gr&uuml;&szlig;en an euch alle!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-60" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry59_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; January 2006</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-01T11:41:12+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-58</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-58</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />A new year has arrived and we are getting on fine with the production of our new album "The Legacy remains", which will see its release in the first half of 2006 on our very favourite label Reartone Records. We have recorded 23 songs until now, but only 12 or 13 will finally make it on the album; yet a definite selection will be made not until all songs have been mixed.<br /><br />Over the last year Bianca, our former singer, has left Antichrisis, but meanwhile we have found a more than equal successor in Katja, who has just received her baptism of fire at Bluehouse Studio and who really fits perfectly into the band.<br /><br />Of course these line-up changes did cause some extra work, as all those tracks already recorded with Bianca have to be re-recorded by Katja, but nevertheless this won't affect our time schedule for the release of "The legacy remains" that much.<br /><br />I am glad to introduce a new webmaster as well: Bernd has just taken over Jens' job (by the way: A big "Thank you" to Jens for his great work - he really deserved to be relieved). Besides, Bernd is also a very gifted singer and songwriter (check out his work at <a href="http://www.bew-music.de" rel="external">http://www.bew-music.de</a> and <a href="http://bew-music.blogspot.com" rel="external">http://bew-music.blogspot.com</a>), and we recently brought a german-speaking side project named Blindflug into being, that already sounds very exciting.<br /><br />Thanks for your feedback, your unfailing support and your loyalty!<br /><br />Best wishes and a happy new year to all of you!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-60" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry58_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; Januar 2006</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-01-01T11:38:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-57</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-57</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans,<br /><br />Ein neues Jahr ist gekommen, und die Arbeit an unserem neuen Album schreitet bestens voran, so dass "The Legacy remains" voraussichtlich noch in der ersten Jahresh&auml;lfte 2006 bei unserem Lieblingslabel Reartone Records erscheinen wird. Wir haben bislang 23 Songs aufgenommen, von denen es jedoch nur 12 oder 13 auf das Album schaffen werden; die letztendliche Auswahl wird allerdings erst erfolgen, wenn alle St&uuml;cke komplett abgemischt sind.<br /><br />Im Lauf des letzten Jahres hat Bianca die Band verlassen, doch mit Katja haben wir mittlerweile eine mehr als ebenb&uuml;rtige Nachfolgerin am Mikrophon gefunden, die im Studio bereits ihre Feuertaufe bestanden hat und sowohl musikalisch als auch menschlich bestens zu Antichrisis passt.<br /><br />Durch diesen Personalwechsel haben wir in Bezug auf die Produktion von "The Legacy remains" mal wieder etwas mehr Arbeit als geplant bekommen, da nun nat&uuml;rlich alle St&uuml;cke, die wir bereits mit Bianca im Studio aufgenommen hatten, von Katja neu eingesungen werden m&uuml;ssen, doch auf den geplanten Ver&ouml;ffentlichungstermin des Albums d&uuml;rfte dies keine gr&ouml;&szlig;eren Auswirkungen haben.<br /><br />Dar&uuml;ber hinaus haben wir mit Bernd einen neuen Webmaster an Bord (In diesem Zusammenhang ein herzliches Dankesch&ouml;n an unseren bisherigen Webmaster Jens f&uuml;r seine hervorrragende Arbeit - er hat sich die Entlastung redlich verdient!), der auch ein fantastischer S&auml;nger und Songwriter ist (schaut einfach mal unter <a href="http://www.bew-music.de" rel="external">http://www.bew-music.de</a> und <a href="http://bew-music.blogspot.com" rel="external">http://bew-music.blogspot.com</a> nach), mit dem ich derzeit an einem deutschsprachigen Side-Projekt namens Blindflug arbeite, das &auml;u&szlig;erst vielversprechende Formen annimmt.<br /><br />Habt Dank f&uuml;r euer Feedback, eure unerm&uuml;dliche Unterst&uuml;tzung und eure Treue!<br /><br />Mit den besten Gr&uuml;&szlig;en an euch alle!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-59" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry57_1.jpg" width="266" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; July 2005</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2005-07-22T20:35:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-56</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-56</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />Life is a peculiar thing: somehow it always seems to turn out different than one thinks. Everything that appeared so consistent and inextinguishable yesterday will easily vanish like morning dew in tomorrow's sunlight. Stupidly pain has the vice of firing artistic creativity (at least as long as it doesn't exceed a certain level where it turns into plain agony - been there, done that, threw away the T-shirt...), so that Antichrisis' musical inspiration will be provided for much more than just the next few albums (beware of sarcasm here).<br /><br />But apart from your mastermind's emotional life Antichrisis is developing magnificently: The reason for the delay of this website update was primarily due to the fact that I moved from A to B and that it took me a while to get everything sorted out and reconnect to the wondrous world of the wide web again. But now I'm back on the track working vigorously on the production of our forthcoming album "The Legacy remains".<br /><br />In this regard there'll be a quite a few surprises and exciting news withing the next few weeks, but I'll hold that back until the next update for reasons of anticipation.<br /><br />Due to your requests comes my current Top 10-list that accidentally turned into a Top 30-list because of my musical indecisiveness:<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;">"Teignmouth" - Patrick Wolf<br />"I'm waking up to us" - Belle & Sebastian<br />"Turning of the Tide" - Midnight Choir<br />"Love hurts" - Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons<br />"We oh we" - The Hidden Cameras<br />"Smile at Everyone" - Minor Majority<br />"Understanding Jane" - Icicle Works<br />"Balkon gegen&uuml;ber" - Kettcar<br />"I lost it" - Lucinda Williams<br />"One thing" - Runrig<br />"So called Friend" - Texas<br />"When you were my Baby" - The Magnetic Fields<br />"Head on" - Pixies<br />"Uncertain Times" - The Raveonettes<br />"Serenade" - Dover<br />"Goodbye Horses" - Q Lazzarus<br />"If I told you you were beautiful" - Minor Majority<br />"I will not forget you" - Sarah McLachlan<br />"To win just once" - Saw Doctors<br />"The last Beat of my Heart" - Siouxsie & The Banshees<br />"Live before you die" - Social Distortion<br />"Reconsider me" - Moneybrother<br />"Buried Bones" - Tindersticks<br />"Neon Moon" - Midnight Choir<br />"Common People" - William Shatner<br />"Please don't leave" - The Ramones<br />"Like a Cannibal" - Mila Mar<br />"Ode to L.A." - The Raveonettes<br />"Landungsbr&uuml;cken raus" - Kettcar<br />"Come back from San Francisco" - The Magnetic Fields<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />And don't forget: The limited digipack edition of "A Legacy of Love Mark II" is still available at Playbaker at a bargain price!<br /><br />In the end there's a quotation of victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson that crossed my mind while I was going through recent occurrences:<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;">I hold it true, whate'er befall;<br />I feel it, when I sorrow most;<br />'Tis better to have loved and lost<br />Than never to have loved at all.<br /><br />Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)<br />"In Memoriam" (1850)<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Best wishes to all of you - and stay tuned!<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-58" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry56_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; Juli 2005</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2005-07-22T20:33:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-55</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-55</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans!<br /><br />Das Leben ist schon eine merkw&uuml;rdige Sache: Irgendwie scheint es immer anders zu kommen, als man denkt; was gestern noch dauerhaft und unzerst&ouml;rbar erschien, ist morgen schon wieder entschwunden wie Nebelschwaden im Licht der Morgensonne. Dummerweise hat Schmerz die schlechte Angewohnheit, die k&uuml;nstlerische Kreativit&auml;t zu befl&uuml;geln (zumindest so lange er den Grad nicht &uuml;berschreitet, ab dem er nur noch l&auml;hmend wirkt - aber das kenn ich ja schon zu Gen&uuml;ge!), so dass mehr als gen&uuml;gend Inspiration f&uuml;r die n&auml;chsten Alben von Antichrisis gew&auml;hrleistet ist (Achtung: Sarkasmus!).<br /><br />Doch abgesehen vom Privatleben des Meisters gedeiht Antichrisis pr&auml;chtig: Dass die Aktualisierung unserer Website so lange auf sich warten lie&szlig;, hatte in erster Linie damit zu tun, dass ich umgezogen bin und daher erst mal meine gesamten Habseligkeiten von A nach B schaffen musste, bevor ich wieder Kontakt mit der wundersamen Welt des Internets aufnehmen konnte. Mittlerweile sind jedoch alle diesbez&uuml;glichen Arbeiten erledigt, und ich kann mich wieder mit frischer Kraft und neuen Ideen um die Produktion unseres bevorstehenden Albums "The Legacy remains" k&uuml;mmern.<br /><br />Diesbez&uuml;glich wird es in n&auml;chster Zeit sowieso noch einige positive &Uuml;berraschungen und interessante Neuigkeiten geben, doch die will ich mir f&uuml;r das n&auml;chste Website-Update aufheben.<br /><br />Daf&uuml;r gibt es wie mehrfach gefordert wieder meine derzeitige pers&ouml;nliche Top 10-Liste, die jedoch aufgrund meiner Entscheidungsunf&auml;higkeit zu einer Top 30-Liste angewachsen ist:<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;">"Teignmouth" - Patrick Wolf<br />"I'm waking up to us" - Belle & Sebastian<br />"Turning of the Tide" - Midnight Choir<br />"Love hurts" - Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons<br />"We oh we" - The Hidden Cameras<br />"Smile at Everyone" - Minor Majority<br />"Understanding Jane" - Icicle Works<br />"Balkon gegen&uuml;ber" - Kettcar<br />"I lost it" - Lucinda Williams<br />"One thing" - Runrig<br />"So called Friend" - Texas<br />"When you were my Baby" - The Magnetic Fields<br />"Head on" - Pixies<br />"Uncertain Times" - The Raveonettes<br />"Serenade" - Dover<br />"Goodbye Horses" - Q Lazzarus<br />"If I told you you were beautiful" - Minor Majority<br />"I will not forget you" - Sarah McLachlan<br />"To win just once" - Saw Doctors<br />"The last Beat of my Heart" - Siouxsie & The Banshees<br />"Live before you die" - Social Distortion<br />"Reconsider me" - Moneybrother<br />"Buried Bones" - Tindersticks<br />"Neon Moon" - Midnight Choir<br />"Common People" - William Shatner<br />"Please don't leave" - The Ramones<br />"Like a Cannibal" - Mila Mar<br />"Ode to L.A." - The Raveonettes<br />"Landungsbr&uuml;cken raus" - Kettcar<br />"Come back from San Francisco" - The Magnetic Fields<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Und nicht vergessen: die limitierte Digipack-Edition von "A Legacy of Love Mark II" ist noch immer bei Playbaker zu einem &auml;u&szlig;erst g&uuml;nstigen Preis zu bekommen!<br /><br />Zu guter letzt noch ein Zitat des viktorianischen Dichters Alfred Lord Tennyson, das mir aufgrund der Ereignisse der letzten Wochen erneut in den Sinn kam:<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;">I hold it true, whate'er befall;<br />I feel it, when I sorrow most;<br />'Tis better to have loved and lost<br />Than never to have loved at all.<br /><br />Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)<br />"In Memoriam" (1850)<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />Mit den besten Gr&uuml;&szlig;en an euch alle!<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-57" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry55_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; December 2004</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2004-12-22T18:31:14+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-54</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-54</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />Mission accomplished: We've just finished re-recording and remixing &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo;! The album will see its release within the next few weeks (digipack with bonus-track); we'll let you know in due time about its definite release date.<br /><br />The album will be called &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo;, because it's actually meant to be an update to the original &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; album of 1998. We just left the vocal parts and a few instrumental solos untouched, whereas everything else got completely rearranged and re-recorded by the new Antichrisis line-up.<br /><br />I was never completely satisfied with the original "A Legacy of Love"-album because Antichrisis didn't sound like a proper band at that time (of course it couldn't because I had to play most instruments on my own). But as the songs on this album deserved a second chance, I thought that it might be a good idea to let the recent Antichrisis line-up re-record the entire album so that you'll get an idea of what Antichrisis sounds like today. And as our fans demanded a re-issue because "A Legacy of Love" got out of stock a long time ago, we'll be killing two birds with one stone.<br /><br />My gratitude goes to Jens, Tilo, Kugator and N&auml;x: &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; wouldn't have become what it is without your artistic skills and creative input!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-56" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry54_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; Dezember 2004</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2004-12-22T18:29:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-53</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-53</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans!<br /><br />Wir haben es geschafft: Die Neuaufnamen und der Remix von &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; sind endlich abgeschlossen! Das Album wird in den n&auml;chsten Wochen in einer Digipack Edition inklusive Bonus-Track erscheinen; &uuml;ber das genau Erscheinungsdatum werden wir euch an dieser Stelle noch fr&uuml;hzeitig informieren.<br /><br />Das Album wird den Titel &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; tragen: &ldquo;Mark II&rdquo; deshalb, weil es im Grunde genommen eine Art &ldquo;Update&rdquo; der 1998 erschienenen Originalversion von &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; darstellt: Wir haben lediglich die urspr&uuml;nglichen Gesangsaufnahmen sowie einige Instrumentalsoli beibehalten; alle anderen Spuren wurden vom neuen Antichrisis Line-up komplett neu eingespielt und arrangiert.<br /><br />Ich war mit der urspr&uuml;nglichen Version von "A Legacy of Love" nie v&ouml;llig zufrieden, da Antichrisis zum damaligen Zeitpunkt eher nach einem Ein-Mann-Projekt als nach einer richtigen Band klang - kein Wunder, da ich damals die meisten Instrumente selbst eingespielt hatte. Da ich aber nach wie vor hinter den Songs von "A Legacy of Love" stehe, wollte ich die Gelegenheit nutzen, den aktuellen Bandsound von Antichrisis, den ich schon damals im Hinterkopf hatte, festzuhalten. Und da unsere Fans immer wieder nach einer Neuauflage des Albums fragten, da es auf legalem Weg nicht mehr verf&uuml;gbar war, wollten wir gleich N&auml;gel mit K&ouml;pfen machen.<br /><br />Mein ganz besonderer Dank an dieser Stelle geht an Jens, Tilo, Kugator & N&auml;x: Ohne eure Hilfe w&auml;re &ldquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&rdquo; nicht zu dem geworden, was es jetzt ist!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-55" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry53_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; September 2004</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2004-09-21T16:26:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-52</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-52</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />We&rsquo;ve been working busily on the final completion of the pre-production to our new album as well as on the re-release of &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; during the last weeks, although I have to say that &ldquo;re-release&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t quite take the bisquit as we&rsquo;re not just doing your average remixing and remastering-job, moreover we&rsquo;re re-recording guitars, drums and keyboards completely: The E-Drums we used in 1998 got already thrown out and were replaced by Kugator&rsquo;s excellent drumming.<br /><br />All in all &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; will be completely revised, edited, restored, remixed and remastered before it&rsquo;ll see its re-release by the end of the year. Those who already liked the original album will presumably go haywire with this new edition!<br /><br />Many of you have written emails in which they were complaining about the missing &ldquo;My favourite Top Ten&rdquo;-section that was part of our old website, hence a selection of my current favourites right here:<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;">Life fades away - Roy Orbison<br />Don&rsquo;t play that Song (You lied) - Ben E. King<br />Levi Stubb&rsquo;s Tears - Billy Bragg<br />Warning Sign - Coldplay<br />Brand New Start - Paul Weller<br />Love is Only a Feeling - The Darkness<br />Mary&rsquo;s in India - Dido<br />With Whom to dance - The Divine Comedy<br />Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler<br />Boys of Melody - The Hidden Cameras<br />Sleep Well Tonight - Inspiral Carpets<br />Ascension - Kirlian Camera<br />Du s&auml;lde v&auml;ra hj&auml;rtan - Lisa Ekdahl<br />Pillar of Davidson - Live<br />The Gift - Midge Ure<br />Dark Island - Mike Oldfield<br />Whale - Rescue Mission<br />Hear My Song - Vernon Midgely<br />Ring on the Sill - Cowboy Junkies<br />Until the Morning Comes - Tindersticks<br />Ciega Sordomuda - Shakira<br />All My Little Words - The Magnetic Fields<br />These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding<br />Shakin&rsquo; all over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates<br />Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;"><br />That&rsquo;s all for today - we&rsquo;ll keep you informed about further developments!<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-53" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry52_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; September 2004</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2004-09-21T16:24:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-51</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2004#unique-entry-id-51</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans!<br /><br />Wir haben in den letzten Wochen sowohl an der Fertigstellung der Vorproduktion unseres neuen Albums als auch an der Wiederver&ouml;ffentlichung von &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; gearbeitet, wobei der Begriff &ldquo;Wiederver&ouml;ffentlichung&rdquo; eigentlich eine leichte Untertreibung darstellt, denn wir belassen es nicht nur bei dem in solchen F&auml;llen &uuml;blichen Re-Mastering und Re-Mixing, sondern wir spielen dar&uuml;ber hinaus die Keyboards und Gitarren f&uuml;r &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; v&ouml;llig neu ein: Die E-Drums, die wir seinerzeit verwendet haben, sind bereits herausgeflogen und durch Kugators Schlagzeug ersetzt worden.<br /><br />Alles in allem wird &ldquo;A Legacy of Love&rdquo; also komplett &uuml;berarbeitet, restauriert, editiert und mit einem zus&auml;tzlichen Bonus-Track versehen werden, bevor wir die CD voraussichtlich Ende des Jahres wiederver&ouml;ffentlichen: Wer das Album bislang schon mochte, wird von dieser Neuauflage vermutlich hellauf begeistert sein!<br /><br />Viele von euch haben mir geschrieben und sich beklagt, dass sie die Rubrik der pers&ouml;nlichen Top-Ten-Hits, die auf unserer alten Website enthalten war, schmerzlich vermissen. Daher als Entsch&auml;digung an dieser Stelle eine kleine Auflistung meiner derzeitigen Lieblingssongs:<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br />Life fades away - Roy Orbison<br />Don&rsquo;t play that Song (You lied) - Ben E. King<br />Levi Stubb&rsquo;s Tears - Billy Bragg<br />Warning Sign - Coldplay<br />Brand New Start - Paul Weller<br />Love is Only a Feeling - The Darkness<br />Mary&rsquo;s in India - Dido<br />With Whom to dance - The Divine Comedy<br />Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler<br />Boys of Melody - The Hidden Cameras<br />Sleep Well Tonight - Inspiral Carpets<br />Ascension - Kirlian Camera<br />Du s&auml;lde v&auml;ra hj&auml;rtan - Lisa Ekdahl<br />Pillar of Davidson - Live<br />The Gift - Midge Ure<br />Dark Island - Mike Oldfield<br />Whale - Rescue Mission<br />Hear My Song - Vernon Midgely<br />Ring on the Sill - Cowboy Junkies<br />Until the Morning Comes - Tindersticks<br />Ciega Sordomuda - Shakira<br />All My Little Words - The Magnetic Fields<br />These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding<br />Shakin&rsquo; all over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates<br />Say Hello Wave Goodbye - David Gray<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">So viel f&uuml;r heute - wir werden euch &uuml;ber unsere weiteren Aktivit&auml;ten an dieser Stelle auf dem Laufenden halten.<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-54" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry51_1.jpg" width="266" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>If</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-06-21T18:47:43+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-50</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-50</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If sunlight was floating like streams of honey<br />it still could not match your smile<br /><br />If seaweed was made of gossamer lace<br />it still could not amount to your sweet caress<br /><br />If clouds were as gentle as a butterfly's kiss<br />they could not compete with your tender lips <br /><br />And even if I would lay in a bed of flowers<br />in the cottonwood's shade<br />this could not keep up<br />with that single moment <br />when I hold you in my arms<br /><br />Together we walk through this garden of love<br />We dance on its funeral pyre<br />And I swear by the stars up above<br />that you are my only desire<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="juni2006_439.jpgfeuerkrone" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry50_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Safe From Harm</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-04-30T13:12:05+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-49</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-49</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Love was like a pastel<br />in those days of yore<br />So delicate and flimsy<br />Feathery colours <br />like summer clouds in a Devon sky<br /><br />But the first rain of autumn<br />made its colours run<br />and the tempests tore <br />our slender sketches apart<br /><br />Thereafter I travelled <br />so far and long<br />in search of what was lost<br />until I realised<br />that pastels cannot withstand<br />the storms of life<br /><br />These days <br />we are carving our love<br />into a statue of wood<br />More strenuous<br />than working just with brush and easel<br />Addlepated by its timberish tenaciousness<br />and irritated by splinters<br />few and far between<br /><br />Though unfinished yet<br />this solid sculpture of ours<br />is rooted deep in fertile soil<br />thus we won't have <br />to shield it timidly<br />from gale and hail<br />because we can rely <br />on its artistry and firmness instead<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Jutta am See1" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry49_1.jpg" width="240" height="180"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Brand New Start</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-03-21T23:02:09+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-48</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-48</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Winter's last stand<br />adamantly defending his claim <br />but nevertheless<br />preparing to abdicate<br />as the first rays of sunlight<br />herald spring's advent<br /><br />What a long dark winter it was:<br />Its petrifying coldness<br />stalling my heart<br /><br />Germinating like early snowdrops<br />breaking the glacial deadlock<br />and memories fade like morning dew<br />leaving tracery on a frosted window<br /><br />But with the light of a new day<br />only runlets remain<br />and the reminiscence of an afterglow<br />is all that is left<br />as I set out for higher grounds...<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Boscastle20050822-38.0" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry48_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Never Get Out Of This World Alive</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-27T08:44:40+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-47</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-47</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course I've made mistakes<br />insignificant ones<br />as well as fatal ones<br /><br />but then <br />I'm only human:<br /><br />I believed when I should have doubted<br />I dared when I should have been cautious<br />I've been chasing dreams when I should have come down to earth<br />I got weak when I should have shown strength<br />I did surrender when I should have fought on<br /><br />But there were also <br />a few things I did right:<br /><br />I believed though I had my doubts<br />I dared where no one else had the heart<br />I tried to live up to my dreams even if it meant to overcome sanity and reason<br />I could be weak where everybody else expected me to wear a disguise<br />I did let go when hanging on would have caused nothing but pain and devastation<br /><br />and even if I should fail again<br />it'll be with dignity <br /><br />but then<br />who gives a damn?<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Woehrder Wiese 4" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry47_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sleepless Nights</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-22T22:19:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-46</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-46</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Staying awake all night<br />telling jokes and anecdotes<br />talking about <br />faith and music<br />love and death<br /><br />I wish I could deal with all this<br />the way you do:<br />Waiting for a new day dawning<br />while relying on your friends<br />to help you make it through the night<br /><br />And as much as I <br />enjoy your company<br />and our hopes and dreams and visions<br />I'm afraid it won't suffice<br />to accompany me through this darkness<br />and dry these cold and bitter tears<br /><br />Milton was right<br />there is such thing as paradise lost<br />and once you've lost it<br />there is no going back<br />no more!<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Forelorn Tree" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry46_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Winterlong</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-17T07:51:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-45</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-45</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Snow-padded meadows<br />lie cold, clear and untouched;<br />An ultimate emptiness<br />like a world created anew<br /><br />Out of this scantiness<br />arises new life<br />once springtime has come again<br /><br />But how can I think of spring<br />when I don't even know<br />how to survive another winter?<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="SnowCarnBrea" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry45_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>You Can&#x27;t Put Your Arms Around A Memory</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-15T00:16:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-44</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-44</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[What remains<br />of a heart<br />that has been torn and shattered for too long?<br /><br />What remains<br />and what for shall we endure<br />when pain is everything we've gained?<br /><br />What remains<br />when everything we ever wanted<br />turns out to be just an illusion of love?<br /><br />What remains<br />of hope and confidence<br />when our last resort has been carried?<br /><br />What remains<br />and who will stand<br />when there's nothing left to fight for?<br /><br />What remains<br />when we have to realize<br />that some wounds never heal?<br /><br />What remains<br />when the memory of you withers<br />and my last song fades away? <br /><br />What remains<br />when the last ray of sunlight disappears<br />and we're left in the darkness?<br /><br />All that remains<br />like a whisper in the wind<br />is the legacy...<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="River" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry44_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Backstage Pass</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-11T02:42:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-43</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-43</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Back on the stage again<br />Mister Tough Guy, <br />Mister Sid,<br />all dressed in black<br /><br />With a body language saying<br />"Don't mess with me<br />or it'll be<br />five knuckle shuffle time!"<br /><br />With a gaze<br />like a warning sign:<br />"Keep out!"<br />in capital letters!<br /><br />Roaring like a beast<br />a red hot pumping power-pack<br />pale with fright inside<br />that someone out there<br />might detect <br />how fragile I am<br /><br />But I have to protect<br />this heart of mine<br />so painstakingly<br />because you almost killed it!<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Sid-Nebula.0" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry43_1.jpg" width="150" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Late For The Sky</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-09T19:39:52+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-42</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-42</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Getting divorced today<br />almost 3 years after we parted<br />was a piece of cake<br /><br />Getting you banned<br />from my mind and dreams<br />was the hardest part<br />and took so much longer<br />than it took the judge<br />to declare our marriage <br />as being dissolved<br /><br />Quite a few things in my life<br />have turned out fine<br />since you were gone;<br />Some went even better<br />than I would have wanted them<br />without you<br /><br />But I still haven't found<br />the peace of heart<br />and bliss that I felt<br />when you lay in my arms...<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Basement 2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry42_1.jpg" width="200" height="125"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Loose Ends</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-06T19:22:37+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-40</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[All of a sudden<br />my life has turned<br />into one of Bruce's sad songs:<br /><br />"I had a job, I had a girl<br />I had something going, mister, in this world"<br /><br />"Our love has fallen around us like we said it never could<br />We saw it happen to all the others but to us it never would<br />Well how could something so bad, darling, <br />come from something that was so good?"<br /><br />"Now those memories come back to haunt me<br />they haunt me like a curse<br />Is a dream a lie if it don't come true<br />Or is it something worse?"<br /><br />He also wrote some wonderful love songs like:<br /><br />"Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees<br />I'll wait for you<br />And should I fall behind<br />Wait for me"<br /><br />But I suppose he didn't write these lines about the both of us<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="bruce_DD_7.0" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry40_1.jpg" width="200" height="146"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Year&#x27;s Day</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-01-01T22:16:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-38</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-38</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Fireworks paint the sky<br />with sparkling flowers of light<br />while I stand alone<br />amongst the cheering crowd<br /><br />Someone's tapping on my shoulder<br />"Happy new year, mate!" he bawls<br />Another one shakes my hand,<br />and there's bear hugs and kisses<br /><br />Of course they wish me well<br />"May all your wishes come true!"<br /><br />Funny - but how could they know<br />that there's just one wish left <br />in the fathomless abyss<br />of my heart?<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="3433New_Years_Fire_Works_B036C.2" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry38_1.jpg" width="200" height="150"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Neuaufnahme</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2005-04-30T20:12:19+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-37</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2005#unique-entry-id-37</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: K&ouml;nntest Du Dir vorstellen, "Cantara Anachoreta" und "Perfume" genau so zu &uuml;berarbeiten und neu aufzunehmen wie "A Legacy of Love"? Es w&auml;re doch sehr interessant, die Songs von "Cantara Anachoreta" mit Pipes zu h&ouml;ren.<br /></span><br />Sid: Das w&auml;re sicherlich eine interessante Angelegenheit - aber andererseits m&ouml;chte ich lieber an neuen Songs arbeiten. Die Neuaufnahme von "A Legacy of Love" stellt in dieser Hinsicht eine Ausnahme dar, die einfach notwendig war, um die musikalische Br&uuml;cke zu "The Legacy remains" zu schlagen, wohingegen ich zumindest zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kein Album in Planung habe, das an den Sound von "Cantara Anachoreta" ankn&uuml;pfen w&uuml;rde.<br /><br />Ich denke nicht, dass man den "Cantara"-Songs - mit Ausnahme von "Goodbye to Jane", das wir aus genau diesem Grund f&uuml;r "Perfume" nochmals neu eingespielt hatten, durch eine _&Uuml;berarbeitung einen gro&szlig;en Gefallen tun w&uuml;rde, denn der besondere Reiz von "Cantara Anachoreta" liegt nun mal gerade in seiner R&auml;udigkeit und Imperfektion: es knarzt und kratzt an allen Ecken und Enden, und dieser Effekt steht den Songs meiner Ansicht nach ziemlich gut zu Gesicht.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-16" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry37_1.jpg" width="150" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Schicksalsschl&#xe4;ge</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-01-17T13:49:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-36</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-36</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Antichrisis gibt es mittlerweile schon seit mehr als zehn Jahren. In dieser Zeitspanne musstest Du einige Schicksalsschl&auml;ge verdauen. Wie hast du es geschafft, dich dabei immer wieder am eigenen Schopf aus dem Schlamassel zu ziehen?</span><br /><br />Sid: Ich glaube, ich bin mittlerweile schon so oft abgest&uuml;rzt, dass ich eine gewisse Routine im "wieder-auf-die-Beine" kommen entwickelt habe. Leicht ist es mir nie gefallen, denn es f&uuml;hlte sich jedes Mal so an, als ob ich meine pers&ouml;nliche Schmerzgrenze erreicht oder sogar &uuml;berschritten h&auml;tte. Bezeichnenderweise standen all diese Abst&uuml;rze immer in Zusammenhang mit Beziehungen beziehungsweise deren Ende - aber Liebe macht nun mal sehr verletzlich, und je mehr man liebt, desto verletzlicher wird man. Es ist wirklich eine merkw&uuml;rdige Sache: einerseits kann einem Liebe unendliche Kraft verleihen und zu Taten befl&uuml;geln, die man alleine nie f&uuml;r m&ouml;glich gehalten h&auml;tte, doch andererseits kann sie einem auch die schmerzhaftesten Niederlagen und die gr&ouml;&szlig;ten Tiefschl&auml;ge zuf&uuml;gen, bis man nur noch wie ein H&auml;ufchen Elend in der Ecke kauert...<br /><br />Mir hat immer meine Musik geholfen, um mich aus diesem Schlamassel wieder herauszuziehen - ich glaube, wenn ich damals nicht die Songs zu "A Legacy of Love" geschrieben h&auml;tte, um meinem Schmerz eine Gestalt zu verleihen, so dass er mich nicht mehr innerlich zerfressen konnte, w&uuml;rde ich heute nicht mehr hier sitzen: das Schreiben der Songs wurde zu einer Art &Uuml;berlebenstraining f&uuml;r mich...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-15" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry36_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Schaffensphasen</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-02-14T22:07:27+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Wenn du die Historie von Antichrisis in Schaffensphasen unterteilen solltest, wie w&uuml;rden diese Abschnitte aussehen und wie w&uuml;rdest du sie selbst charakterisieren?</span><br /><br />Sid: F&uuml;r mich sind die jeweiligen Schaffensphasen von Antichrisis in erster Linie mit den emotionalen Zust&auml;nden verbunden, in denen unsere Alben entstanden: w&auml;hrend der Aufnahmen zu "Cantara Anachoreta" zerbrach gerade eine fast 7-j&auml;hrige Beziehung, so dass ich in die Songs dieses Albums meine ganze Wut und meinen Schmerz legte - da blieb kein Raum mehr f&uuml;r irgendwelche positiven Gef&uuml;hle.<br /><br />Auf "A Legacy of Love" fand zwar ein &auml;hnlicher Prozess statt, aber diesmal auf vielschichtigere Art und Weise: zwar waren auch hier Schmerz und Trauer im &Uuml;berma&szlig; vorhanden, weil ich schon wieder einen geliebten Menschen verloren hatte, doch ich lie&szlig; gleichzeitig eine Ambivalenz zu, der ich mich auf "Cantara Anachoreta" noch verweigert hatte: mit Songs wie "Nightswan" oder "Dancing in the Midnight Sun" r&auml;umte ich den positiven Aspekten dieser Liebe ihren Platz ein, auch wenn dies zum damaligen Zeitpunkt leider nur in Form eines wehm&uuml;tigen R&uuml;ckblicks erfolgen konnte. Aber es ist genau diese Ambivalenz, die "A Legacy of Love" so besonders macht, weil dort Liebe und Sch&ouml;nheit, Trauer und Wut gleichberechtigt nebeneinander stehen und die ganze Bandbreite menschlicher Gef&uuml;hle in Bezug auf den Verlust einer Beziehung widerspiegeln.<br /><br />So gesehen war "Perfume" das einzige Album, bei dessen Entstehung es mir rundherum gut ging - ausnahmsweise gab es keine verlorene Beziehung, die aufgearbeitet werden musste; stattdessen war ich gl&uuml;cklich verliebt, und das h&ouml;rt man der Scheibe auch an: ich musste nicht mehr wie noch auf "Cantara Anachoreta" und "A Legacy of Love" gegen die Wogen der Verzweiflung ank&auml;mpfen.<br /><br />Ich lass' mich mal &uuml;berraschen, in welcher Lebenssituation ich mich bei den Aufnahmen zu unserem n&auml;chsten Album "The Legacy remains" befinden werde.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-14" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry35_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Zu geringer Output?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-03-09T19:01:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: F&uuml;r eine Band, die seit mittlerweile zehn Jahren existiert, sind vier Alben nicht unbedingt &uuml;berdurchschnittlich viel, eigentlich kann man ja sogar nur von drei regul&auml;ren Scheiben reden, denn &bdquo;A Legacy of Love Mark II&ldquo; ist ja an sich &bdquo;nur&ldquo; eine &uuml;berarbeitete Version des 98er Albums &bdquo;A Legacy of Love&ldquo;. Hat es dir einfach an Ideen gemangelt oder warum diese Zur&uuml;ckhaltung in Sachen Ver&ouml;ffentlichungen?<br /></span><br />Sid: Wie lange ben&ouml;tigen denn Bands wie Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode oder Guns N' Roses f&uuml;r ein neues Album? Und dabei handelt es sich bei diesen K&uuml;nstlern um "hauptberufliche" Musiker, die sich ganz auf ihre Musik konzentrieren k&ouml;nnen und nicht noch nebenbei arbeiten m&uuml;ssen, um sich ihren Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen.<br /><br />Es mangelt mir keinesfalls an Ideen, aber wenn ich auf die letzten 10 Jahre zur&uuml;ckschaue, dann stelle ich fest, dass ich ein ziemlich bewegtes Leben mit extremen H&ouml;hen und Tiefen hinter mir habe: ich sa&szlig; in der Zeit 2 x in der Psychiatrie, habe einige extrem schmerzhafte Trennungen hinter mir, aufgrund derer ich meinen jeweiligen Wohnort wechseln und jedes Mal wieder einen kompletten Neuanfang machen musste; um meine k&ouml;rperliche Gesundheit stand es aufgrund dieser Vorkommnisse ebenfalls nicht immer zum Besten usw. Daher wundert es mich eigentlich, dass die bisherigen Alben &uuml;berhaupt entstehen konnten, denn ich bin alleine f&uuml;r das Songwriting zust&auml;ndig und mache auch die ziemlich aufw&auml;ndigen Vorproduktionen im Alleingang.<br /><br />Hinzu kommt, dass &Auml;rger mit der Plattenfirma auch nicht gerade dazu angetan ist, die Produktivit&auml;t zu steigern - erst jetzt, wo wir bei Reartone Records unter Vertrag sind, kann ich mich endlich mal einigermassen entspannt zur&uuml;cklehnen und nur um die Musik k&uuml;mmern, weil das Label voll und ganz hinter der Band steht und einen mehr als ordentlichen Job macht.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-13" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry34_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>DJ Sid?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2001-03-24T19:46:35+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Ehrlich gesagt hab ich mich mit dem Sprechgesang im dem St&uuml;ck "Like the stars" schwer getan und fand das ganze eher deplatziert. Wie kam es dazu, waren die meisten Reaktionen &auml;hnlich meiner oder gab es auch positive Stimmen? Findet ihr nicht, dass der Gesang eher nach einem Dancefloor-Act klingt?<br /></span><br />N&auml;x: Ich finde es nicht verwerflich, wenn zu grooviger Musik ein wenig gerappt wird. Long live Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five! Immerhin ist Rap die extremste Form, Sprache zu rhythmisieren, von Reinhard Mey's genialen Reimereien mal abgesehen. O.k., Antichrisis ist keine echte Gangsta Rap Crew, aber Tic Tac Toe ist das schliesslich auch nicht...<br /><br />Sid: Ich kann mich f&uuml;r viele unterschiedliche Musikstile begeistern - es z&auml;hlt nur, ob ein Song gut oder schlecht ist, und nicht, welcher musikalischer Stilmittel er sich bedient...und ich sehe mir tausendmal lieber einen guten Gig von Seeed an, als mir den xten Aufguss des immer gleichen, mittlerweile v&ouml;llig zur leeren Pose erstarrten Gothic-Metal-Konzepts anzutun! "Like the Stars" ist nun mal ein Dancefloor-Song und verlangte daher auch nach dem Einsatz der entsprechenden Stilmittel. Wenn ich die Idee f&uuml;r einen Song habe, frage ich niemals danach, welche musikalischen Ausdrucksformen ich dabei zum Einsatz bringen darf und welche nicht - eine solche Form der Selbstzensur w&auml;re der Tod meiner Musik! <br /><br />Ich war zugegebenermassen zun&auml;chst selbst &uuml;berrascht, als ich w&auml;hrend der Vorproduktion feststellte, dass "Like the Stars" mit dem Sprechgesang in den Strophen am besten funktioniert, und ich stellte fest, dass es keine leichte Aufgabe ist, einen Text zu schreiben, der sich streng nach dem Diktat von Rhythmik, Versma&szlig; und Reimschema zu richten hat. Im &uuml;brigen sind die meisten Leute, die "Perfume" bislang geh&ouml;rt haben, der Ansicht, dass wir "Like the Stars" unbedingt als Single h&auml;tten auskoppeln sollen.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-23" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry33_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/><br /></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Weniger Melancholie?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2001-02-02T18:44:06+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Mir f&auml;llt auf, dass die Songs auf "Perfume" weniger melancholisch ausgefallen sind als noch auf "Legacy of Love", was auch sicher mit der damals doch schweren Materie des Trennens zusammenhing. Hatte das Werk f&uuml;r euch die gew&uuml;nschte katalytische Wirkung? Daher der etwas beschwingtere Klang des neuen Albums?<br /></span><br />Sid: Die Arbeit an einem Album kann zwar helfen, die eigenen Gef&uuml;hle zum Ausdruck zu bringen, so wie dies schon bei "A Legacy of Love" und "Cantara Anachoreta" der Fall war, doch die eigentliche Katharsis setzt erst mit dem n&ouml;tigen zeitlichen Abstand ein: Manche Verarbeitungsprozesse brauchen eben ihre Zeit! Somit hatten die beiden ersten Antichrisis-Alben eine Art Tagebuch-Funktion: Ich dokumentierte mit den Songs meine eigenen Gef&uuml;hle, um ihnen so Gestalt zu verleihen.<br /><br />"Perfume" ist allerdings definitiv das erste Antichrisis-Album, auf dem ich als Songwriter keine Vergangenheitsbew&auml;ltigung leisten musste, sondern mich v&ouml;llig auf das Hier und Jetzt konzentrieren konnte - daher auch die kraftvollere und zuversichtlichere Grundstimmung des Albums. Dar&uuml;ber hinaus war es mir wichtig, Antichrisis auch einmal von einer anderen Seite zu zeigen, die in der Vergangenheit zu kurz kam: N&auml;mlich als eine Band, die durchaus zu grooven versteht und deren Songs zum Tanzen geeignet sind.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-24" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry32_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Stilistischer Wandel</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-11-30T21:40:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: "Perfume" zeigt eine stark gewandelte Band: Weg vom ehemaligen Folk-Rock/Metal hin zu eher modernen Sounds, inklusive vieler elektronischer Elemente. Wie kam dieses Wandlung zustande, was war euch dabei am wichtigsten?</span><br /><br />Sid: Wir haben lediglich unsere musikalische Basis erweitert und ausgebaut, was eigentlich eine ganz normale k&uuml;nstlerische Entwicklung sein sollte: Wir sind stets offen f&uuml;r Experimente, und wenn sich diese in Form guter Songs niederschlagen, setzen wir sie auch um. Dies war somit der einzige Bewertungsmassstab, den bei den Vorbereitungsarbeiten f&uuml;r "Perfume" anlegten: Betreiben wir hier Experimente um des Experiments willen, oder entwickeln sich daraus schl&uuml;ssige Songs, die unsere Gef&uuml;hle bestm&ouml;glich zum Ausdruck bringen und die dennoch neue musikalische Bereiche er&ouml;ffnen? Daher empfinde ich "Perfume" weniger als Wandlung, sondern vielmehr als konsequente Weiterentwicklung - und das war schon immer eines der charakteristischen Markenzeichen von Antichrisis.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-25" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry31_1.jpg" width="269" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Selbstmord</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-05-17T12:38:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Was h&auml;ltst Du von Menschen, die es nicht beim Nachdenken &uuml;ber Selbstmord belassen, sondern dies erfolgreich in die Tat umsetzen? Bist Du auch (wie ich) der Meinung, da&szlig; jeder (!) Mensch in seinem Leben Situationen erlebt, in denen er sich mehr oder weniger damit befa&szlig;t?<br /></span><br />Sid: Ich kann und will nicht &uuml;ber andere Menschen urteilen, doch ich denke, da&szlig; es f&uuml;r jeden Menschen eine jeweils individuell unterschiedlich definierte Schwelle des Schmerzes gibt, die, wenn sie &uuml;berschritten wird, auch Selbstt&ouml;tung oder zumindest den Gedanken daran nach sich ziehen kann. Diese "Schmerzgrenze" als Au&szlig;enstehender definieren oder bewerten zu wollen, ist ein Ding der Unm&ouml;glichkeit, weil das Ausma&szlig; der jeweils schmerzverursachenden Situation von jedem Menschen anders empfunden wird - wenn man selbst nicht darin steckt, kann man sich u. U. gar nicht vorstellen, was der betroffene Mensch da gerade durchmacht.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-46" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry30_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Wunschtraum</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-08-19T16:36:37+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Welche W&uuml;nsche/Ziele/Tr&auml;ume hast Du Dir f&uuml;r die Zukunft gesetzt? Was m&ouml;chtest Du davon unbedingt erf&uuml;llen? Und bei was bist Du Dir sicher, da&szlig; es Tr&auml;ume bleiben werden?</span><br /><br />Sid: Mit meiner Geliebten gemeinsam bis ans Ende unserer Tage in einem Haus an der K&uuml;ste von Cornwall zusammen zu leben - Ich hoffe schwer, da&szlig; das nicht nur ein Traum bleibt.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-27" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry29_1.jpg" width="150" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Liebe und Tod</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-09-26T09:33:58+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Viele eurer Songs besch&auml;ftigen sich mit der Liebe, dem Leben und dem Tod. Wie denkst Du &uuml;ber diese Dinge?<br /></span><br />Sid: Gute Frage... Leben ist f&uuml;r mich gleichbedeutend mit Liebe, denn ein Leben ohne Liebe erscheint mir doch ziemlich sinnlos. Liebe wiederum ist das wunderbarste Geschenk und &uuml;berw&auml;ltigendste Gef&uuml;hl, das ich mir vorstellen kann: Ich verdanke der Liebe die sch&ouml;nsten, doch gleichzeitig auch die schmerzhaftesten Momente meines Lebens - und an dieser Stelle kommt unvermeidlicherweise auch der Tod ins Spiel...<br /><br />Dennoch empfinde ich das Leben als ein Geschenk; und selbst, wenn ich mich in den Untiefen, die das Leben ab und an mit sich bringt, alles andere als gut f&uuml;hle, geh&ouml;ren die dunklen Momente ebenso dazu wie die lichten. Der Tod ist dabei ein nat&uuml;rlicher Bestandteil des Lebens, und ich finde es bedauerlich, da&szlig; er in unserer westlichen Zivilisation im Lauf der Jahrhunderte mit so viel Angst, Furcht und Tabus belegt wurde, anstatt ihn als integralen Bestandteil der Existenz zu begreifen.<br /><br />Vor dem Tod selbst habe ich keine Angst, lediglich vor einem schmerzhaften Sterben - oder vor einem Sterben in einer anonymen, sterilen Klinik, anstatt in den letzten Stunden von geliebten Menschen umgeben zu sein.<br /><br />Was das Leben in meinen Augen mitunter so schwierig macht, ist der Umstand, da&szlig; so viele unvorhergesehene Dinge eintreten k&ouml;nnen, was an sich ja eher erfreulich als belastend w&auml;re; doch da&szlig; eben selbst das, was man f&uuml;r unverg&auml;nglich h&auml;lt, pl&ouml;tzlich ein unvorhersehbares Ende nehmen kann. Der daraus resultierende Schmerz, die Trauer &uuml;ber ein verlorenes Gl&uuml;ck, k&ouml;nnen schrecklich sein und es nahezu unm&ouml;glich machen, dem Leben noch etwas Positives abzugewinnen. Und obwohl ich die Ansicht vertrete, da&szlig; man sich oder dem Schicksal immer noch eine Chance zubilligen sollte, kann ich Menschen, die aus einer solchen Krisensituation heraus entschieden haben, ihrem Leben ein Ende zu setzen, durchaus verstehen: Niemand kann wirklich nachempfinden, wie sehr ein bestimmter Schmerz oder eine bestimmte Notlage einem anderen Menschen zusetzt. Selbstverst&auml;ndlich birgt jede Krise auch ein ungeheures Wachstumspotential f&uuml;r den Betroffenen in sich, doch man kann eben auch daran zerbrechen...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-43" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry28_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Emanzipierte Frauen</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-04-07T14:31:28+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Was h&auml;ltst Du von emanzipierten Frauen?</span><br /><br />Sid: Ich f&uuml;rchte, mit dem Emanzipationsbegriff wird mittlerweile viel Schindluder getrieben: Wenn sich das Verst&auml;ndnis von Emanzipation lediglich darauf beschr&auml;nken sollte, da&szlig; Frauen meinen, den gleichen Bl&ouml;dsinn wie Typen machen zu m&uuml;ssen (z. B. zur Armee gehen), l&auml;uft da meiner Ansicht nach etwas schief. Bedeutet Emanzipation jedoch, da&szlig; Frauen sich nicht mehr von M&auml;nnern unterbuttern lassen und selbsbewu&szlig;t und stolz ihren eigenen Weg gehen, St&auml;rke zeigen und ihr Leben unabh&auml;ngig von patriarchalen Normen selbstbestimmt in die Hand nehmen, dann kann ich das nur begr&uuml;&szlig;en: Solche Frauen sind mir &auml;u&szlig;erst sympathisch! Ich k&ouml;nnte mir jedenfalls nicht vorstellen, in einer Partnerschaft mit einer Frau zu leben, die dem traditionellen Rollenmodell verhaftet ist, denn gerade in einer Beziehung ist es wichtig, da&szlig; zwei gleich starke bzw. gleichwertige Individuen aufeinander treffen!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-31" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry27_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Drogen</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-03-08T11:28:35+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Hast Du Erfahrungen mit Drogen? Gab es da irgendwelche krassen Abenteuer?</span><br /><br />Sid: Da ich in der Punk-Szene gro&szlig; geworden bin, gab es zwangsl&auml;ufig einige Erlebnisse mit Drogen, die sich im Nachhinein immer ganz lustig anh&ouml;ren - doch im Lauf der Jahre gelangte ich zu der Einsicht, da&szlig; Drogen keine Hilfsmittel sind, um sich lediglich 'nen netten Abend zu machen, sondern da&szlig; sie "Lehrerpflanzen" im schamanistischen Sinn sind: Richtig angewendet erm&ouml;glichen sie den &Uuml;bergang in die Anderswelt sowie au&szlig;erk&ouml;rperliche Erfahrungen - doch da die Wenigsten von uns schamanistische F&auml;higkeiten besitzen (mich eingeschlossen) und wir dar&uuml;ber hinaus den richtigen und respektvollen Umgang mit Drogen verlernt haben, m&ouml;chte ich den Gebrauch von Drogen in keiner Form propagieren; weder in positivem noch in negativem Sinn (Fragw&uuml;rdige Kampagnen wie die "Keine Macht den Drogen"-Initiative eines Staates, der sich zu einem nicht geringen Teil &uuml;ber die Einnahmen aus der Alkohol- und Tabakste&uuml;r finanziert, diskreditieren sich von selbst!), noch m&ouml;chte ich sie in irgendeiner Form zum Symbol eines scheinbar libertin&auml;r-alternativen Gesellschaftsmodells hochstilisieren. Wenn jemand mit Drogen klar kommt: Sch&ouml;n f&uuml;r ihn oder sie, denn es gibt genug Menschen, die das nicht k&ouml;nnen. Nach allen Erfahrungen, die ich gemacht habe, bin ich jedenfalls zu dem Schluss gekommen, da&szlig; die beste Droge noch immer ein klarer Kopf ist.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-32" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry26_1.jpg" width="209" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Das Konzept von &#x22;Cantara Anachoreta&#x22;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1997-12-01T15:25:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: "Cantara Anachoreta" wirkt wie eine in sich geschlossene Geschichte - Kannst Du das best&auml;tigen?</span><br /><br />Sid: "Cantara Anachoreta" ist tats&auml;chlich eine Art Konzeptalbum, dessen Songs die letzten Stunden im Leben des Eremiten Ariman schildern: Er sp&uuml;rt, da&szlig; seine Zeit gekommen ist und die Stunde der Dunkelheit naht ("Prologue"). W&auml;hrend seine Seele sich langsam der Schwelle des Schattenreichs n&auml;hert, ziehen die Begebenheiten seines Lebens als auch die vorangegangener Inkarnationen an ihm vorbei: So erlebt er nochmals das dunkle Zeitalter der Hexenverfolgung ("The Endless Dance"), in dem er trotz seiner damaligen Position als Abt eines Klosters versuchte, die Verfolgten zu sch&uuml;tzen; und ebenso erlebt er den schmerzhaften Verlust der Frau, die er liebte ("Requiem ex Sidhe"). Er erinnert sich eines M&auml;dchens, dem er auf seinen Spazierg&auml;ngen oft begegnete, bis es eines Tages nicht mehr auftauchte: Das Kind hatte sich umgebracht, nachdem es von seinem Vater mi&szlig;braucht worden war - dennoch sp&uuml;rt Ariman die Pr&auml;senz des w&uuml;tenden und Vergeltung einfordernden Geistes des M&auml;dchens ("Goodbye to Jane")...<br /><br />Bilder aus l&auml;ngst vergangenen Tagen steigen in dem Sterbenden empor, und er gedenkt der zahlreichen Momente seines Lebens, in denen er Mut und Tapferkeit aufbringen mu&szlig;te, um sich selbst treu zu bleiben ("Baleias"): Auch wenn mancher Kampf verloren wurde, war es doch wichtig, gek&auml;mpft zu haben. Es fiel ihm nicht immer leicht, dem Pfad der G&ouml;ttin zu folgen und ihre Lehren anzunehmen, doch wann immer er glaubte, sie habe ihn verlassen, war sie in Wirklichkeit bei ihm ("Her Orphaned Throne").<br /><br />Und so tr&auml;umt Ariman von der Wiederkehr der G&ouml;ttin, die alle Ungerechtigkeit, alle leeren Versprechungen, alle L&uuml;gen und falschen Propheten hinwegfegen wird, so da&szlig; ein neues goldenes Zeitalter anbrechen kann ("Descending Messiah"). Mit dieser letzten Vision versinkt Ariman und taucht hinab in Cerridwen's Reich, den Garten der ewigen Tr&auml;ume, in dem seine suchende Seele endlich Heilung und Erl&ouml;sung finden wird ("Epilogue"). Ob dies nun sein Ende ist oder er in ein neues Leben tritt, bleibt das Geheimnis des Eremiten.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-50" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry25_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Die Bedeutung von &#x22;Cantara Anachoreta&#x22;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-11-21T14:59:31+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Wie bist Du auf den Titel "Cantara Anachoreta" gekommen und was bedeutet er?</span><br /><br />Sid: Der Titel ergab sich aus dem dem Album zugrundeliegenden Konzept, ist eine Mischung aus Portugiesisch und Latein und bedeutet "Die Ges&auml;nge des Eremiten".<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-35" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry24_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Die Bedeutung der gefl&#xfc;gelten Schlange</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Lyrics</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1997-11-23T20:21:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Welche Bedeutung steckt eigentlich hinter dem Cover von "Cantara Anachoreta"?</span><br /><br />Sid: Das Cover zeigt eine gefl&uuml;gelte Schlange (aus der sich die mythologische Gestalt des Drachen entwickelte), die ein Ei umschlungen h&auml;lt, aus dem das Universum geboren wird. Diese symbolische Darstellung der G&ouml;ttin mit ihrer Sch&ouml;pfung zieht sich durch fast alle Epochen und Kulturen: So verk&ouml;rpert in der hinduistischen Tradition die G&ouml;ttin Ananta die Schlangenmutter, die zugleich identisch mit der Kundalini ist - der inneren weiblichen Seele des Menschen, die zusammengerollt im Becken ruht und durch Yoga&uuml;bungen dazu gebracht werden kann, sich zu entrollen und durch die Chakren zum Kopf hin aufzusteigen und so Erleuchtung zu bringen.<br /><br />In China hie&szlig; die G&ouml;ttin in Gestalt der gefl&uuml;gelten Schlange Mat Chinoi; in Babylon wurde sie als Kadi bezeichnet. In &Auml;gypten war sie wie in Indien eine Totemform der Grossen Mutter, Per-Utachet bzw. Buto: Die &auml;gyptische Ur&auml;us-Schlange war zugleich die Hieroglyphe f&uuml;r "G&ouml;ttin", und interessanterweise wurde "Ur&auml;us" sp&auml;ter auf sogenannten "Zauberzetteln" und in mittelalterlichen magischen B&uuml;chern (z. B. den henochischen B&uuml;chern des John Dee) zu einem der am h&auml;ufigsten gebrauchten geheimen Namen Gottes. Nebenbei bemerkt: Schon in der Bibel lassen sich gen&uuml;gend Hinweise auf eine urspr&uuml;ngliche Schlangenverehrung der Israeliten finden - z. B. in Numeri 21.8; Psalm 74:14 oder bei Jesaja 51.9. Ganz abgesehen davon bedeutet das hebr&auml;ische Wort f&uuml;r Engel, "Seraph", ebenfalls "Schlange").<br /><br />Das Ei, das die Schlange umschlungen h&auml;lt, ist das mystische Symbol f&uuml;r das Universum in seiner embryonalen Form. Orphischen &Uuml;berlieferungen zufolge gebar die Grosse G&ouml;ttin der Finsternis, die Mutter der Nacht (die in dieser Gestalt als "Goddess of the Night" in dem Song "The Endless Dance" auftaucht), zuerst das Weltei, dem das Universum entschl&uuml;pfte und aus dessen beiden Eih&auml;lften sie Himmel und Erde schuf. Und gem&auml;&szlig; der griechischen Sagen ist es Leda, die die himmlischen Zwillinge Kastor und Polydeukes gebar, wobei jeder der beiden seine H&auml;lfte der Eierschale als Krone trug.<br /><br />"Schlange des Nils" war nicht nur ein Ehrentitel Kleopatras, sondern der hoheitliche Titel aller &auml;gyptischen K&ouml;niginnen, und auch Isis wurde als gefl&uuml;gelte Schlange dargestellt - und da sich der Name Antichrisis auf die G&ouml;ttin Isis bezieht, war es f&uuml;r mich naheliegend, sie in einer ihrer Manifestationen auf dem Cover darzustellen.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-51" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry23_1.jpg" width="270" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sids musikalischer Werdegang</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-08-04T22:16:56+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Sid, Du hast schon eine betr&auml;chtliche musikalische Laufbahn hinter Dir - k&ouml;nntest Du deren einzelne Stationen etwas erl&auml;utern?</span><br /><br />Sid: Puh, wo fang' ich da am besten an? Also: Als ich im Alter von 14 Jahren zum 1. Mal &uuml;ber gen&uuml;gend finanzielle Mittel daf&uuml;r verf&uuml;gte, legte ich mir eine elektrische Gitarre inklusive Verst&auml;rker zu und stellte unverz&uuml;glich fest, da&szlig; eine Gitarre zwar &uuml;ber 6 Saiten, ich hingegen lediglich &uuml;ber 5 Finger an einer Hand verf&uuml;gte, was bedeutete, da&szlig; das herk&ouml;mmliche System des Gitarrenspiels - zumindest so lange es mir nicht gel&auml;nge, Akkorde mit beiden H&auml;nden zu greifen und die Saiten mit der Nase anzuschlagen - f&uuml;r mich nicht funktionieren w&uuml;rde. Um diesem Umstand Abhilfe zu schaffen, reduzierte ich den Saitenbestand meiner japanischen Les-Paul-Kopie zun&auml;chst von 6 auf 2, was die Sache schon wesentlich einfacher machte, da nun meine Finger die Lufthoheit &uuml;ber dem Griffbrett hatten und ich dank dieser Einsparungsma&szlig;nahmen endlich in der Lage war, s&auml;mtliche Songs meiner damaligen Helden, der Ramones, nachspielen zu k&ouml;nnen, womit mein k&uuml;nstlerischer Ehrgeiz zu diesem Zeitpunkt v&ouml;llig ausgelastet war.<br /><br />Ausgestattet mit solch atemberaubenden technischer Fertigkeiten begab ich mich darauf hin nach London, da ich in der Abgeschiedenheit meines elterlichen Heimatdorfes beschlossen hatte, ein Punk-Rock-Star zu werden: Dummerweise hatten die anderen Punks von diesem Entschluss nichts mitbekommen, so da&szlig; ich mit meinen diesbez&uuml;glichen Ambitionen lediglich so weit kam, ein einziges Mal in der Vorgruppe f&uuml;r die Vorgruppe einer drittklassigen Punkband (an dieser Stelle gr&uuml;sse ich Antipasti....die hie&szlig;en wirklich so!) in einem heruntergekommen Pub im Eastend zu spielen. Und als es nach 12 Monaten des Starruhms statt jubelnder Fanmassen immer noch lediglich Pommes aus der M&uuml;lltonne vor dem Fish'n'Chips-Shop gab, kehrte ich reum&uuml;tig und hungrig in heimische Gefilde zur&uuml;ck, besessen von dem Gedanken, die depressivste Musik aller Zeiten zu machen (lag wahrscheinlich an den Fritten!). In diesem Zustand der Verwirrung und unter dem Namen Assorted State of Decay ver&ouml;ffentlichte ich 2 Demos, die ihrer Zeit so weit voraus waren, da&szlig; sie von der &Ouml;ffentlichkeit vollst&auml;ndig ignoriert wurden und infolgedessen meine Berufswahl ("Verkanntes Genie") wesentlich erleichterten.<br /><br />Den Duft des kommerziellen Erfolges schnupperte ich zum 1. Mal mit dem von mir danach ins Leben gerufenen Soloprojekt Temple of Loki, dessen erstes und einziges Demo sich sagenhafte zweiundzwanzigmal (22!) verkaufte. Aus irgendwelchen unerfindlichen Gr&uuml;nden erm&ouml;glichte mir jedoch auch diese beeindruckende Erfolgsbilanz noch kein sorgenfreies Leben, weshalb ich weiterhin Lotto spielen und ins Allg&auml;u ziehen mu&szlig;te, um dort aus lauter Langeweile Cinnamoon zu gr&uuml;nden - wiederum ein Soloprojekt, dessen Symbiose aus Irish Folk und Punk die mit Temple of Loki erreichten Absatzzahlen glattweg verdoppelte.<br /><br />Damit hatte mein kreativer Schaffensdrang jedoch noch l&auml;ngst nicht seinen H&ouml;hepunkt erreicht, da eine h&ouml;chst origin&auml;re Idee anfing, in mir Gestalt anzunehmen: Ich w&uuml;rde einen g&auml;nzlich neuen Musikstil erschaffen, indem ich Punk-Riffs so langsam spielen w&uuml;rde, wie es noch nie ein Mensch zuvor getan hatte. Doch wie bei allen guten Ideen mu&szlig;te ich auch in diesem Fall nur wenig sp&auml;ter feststellen, da&szlig; sie bereits von ein paar langhaarigen, drogens&uuml;chtigen Bombenlegern aus England gestohlen und als "Doom Metal" verkauft worden war!<br /><br />Durch diesen unverfrorenen geistigen Diebstahl lie&szlig; ich mich jedoch keineswegs beirren - im Gegenteil: Ich beschlo&szlig;, etwas noch viel Ausgefalleneres zu kreieren und verfiel auf die bahnbrechende Idee, besagte Punk-Riffs stattdessen in irrwitziger Geschwindigkeit herunterzuschrubben und dazu skandinavische Volksliedtexte in meiner gef&uuml;rchteten "Mr. Bean lost his Balls"-Tonlage zu rezitieren, doch auch in diesem Fall schreckten einige Stromgitarrespielenden und Haschischspritzenden norwegischen Pyromanen nicht davor zur&uuml;ck, sich meines Ideenreichtums zu bedienen und ohne Angabe des wahren Erfinders "Black Metal" in Oslo als Patent anzumelden.<br /><br />Trotz all dieser R&uuml;ckschl&auml;ge ver&ouml;ffentlichte ich unter dem Namen Antichrisis im Jahre 1996 das legend&auml;re Demo "Missa Depositum Custodi" - der Rest ist Geschichte...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-28" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry22_1.jpg" width="235" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Multiinstrumentalisten?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2002-09-27T19:14:18+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2002#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Ihr scheint ja wirklich jede Menge Instrumente zu beherrschen. Habt ihr euch das Spielen selbst beigebracht oder habt ihr Unterricht genommen? Bereitet es euch Probleme, an allen Instrumenten &uuml;ber die Jahre fit zu bleiben, oder &uuml;bt ihr mit allen regelm&auml;&szlig;ig?</span><br /><br />Sid: Ich bin absoluter Autodidakt und &uuml;be auch so gut wie nie, weshalb ich im Gegensatz zu N&auml;x kein guter Musiker im technischen Sinne bin - aber es gelingt mir dennoch, mit einfachen Mitteln gute Songs zu schreiben. Zwar finde ich mich auf vielen Instrumenten einigerma&szlig;en zurecht, "beherrschen" w&uuml;rde ich das jedoch nicht nennen. N&auml;x hingegen hat das Spielen auf dem Dudelsack wirklich erlernt und ist auch definitiv ein Virtuose - nicht nur auf diesem Instrument! Zum &Uuml;ben kann ich mich nie aufraffen, weil mir das zu langweilig ist: Sobald ich mich mit einem Instrument hinsetze, kommt mir meist schon eine Songidee, die ich dann ausarbeiten m&ouml;chte...<br /><br />N&auml;x: Mit 6-7 wollte ich unbedingt Geige lernen, was ich dann auch sechs Jahre lang versuchen durfte, bis ich keinen Spa&szlig; mehr daran hatte. Mit 15 habe ich mir mit Nachhilfeunterricht meine erste Gitarre verdient und mir die legend&auml;re und weltweit bekannte Schrammeltechnik beigebracht. Irgenwann danach h&ouml;rte ich dann zum ersten Mal die Pogues, die Dubliners und schlie&szlig;lich die Bothy Band und war prompt vom irischen Virus infiziert. Also besorgte ich mir eine Mandoline (die wie die Violine gestimmt ist), dazu Tin Whistles und Dance Tunes. Der Hit war aber, da&szlig; ich aus der Zeitung erfuhr, da&szlig; es in Bonn einen Uilleann Pipes-Lehrer gab: Tom Kannmacher - einer der Wegbereiter des Folkrevivals im Deutschland der 70er und 80er Jahre. Also ging ich mit 18 Jahren wieder in die Musikschule, baute ein Instrument und bekam regelm&auml;&szlig;igen Unterricht. Mit Eintritt in das Studentenleben fiel der Unterricht dann wieder weg, aber der gute Kontakt zu Tom blieb erhalten. So musiziere ich seither in verschiedenen Folkbands und vor allem in irischen Sessions. Man bleibt so in &Uuml;bung und lernt nie aus, obwohl diese Praxis mit dem Studienende leider abnimmt.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-18" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry21_1.jpg" width="150" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Lieblingsb&#xfc;cher und -autoren</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-01-11T19:11:09+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Welche Autoren bzw. B&uuml;cher liest Du am liebsten?<br /></span><br />Sid: Was die Belletristik betrifft: Alle Discworld-Novels von Terry Pratchett sowie s&auml;mtliche B&uuml;cher von Douglas Adams, Joolz Denby und Nick Hornby. An SachbuchautorInnen lese ich sehr gerne Marija Gimbutas, Luisa Francia, Gerda Weiler, Peter James Carroll, Nicolas Hall und Barbara G. Walker. Ganz besonders ans Herz legen m&ouml;chte ich allen, die an M&auml;rchen gefallen finden, Saheta Weiks "Drachinnenges&auml;nge", die gl&uuml;cklicherweise neu aufgelegt wurden.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-33" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry20_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hexenschuss</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1997-02-15T22:40:09+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1997#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Neulich habe ich in einem Wartezimmer eine nette Brosch&uuml;re gelesen, in der es u. a. um den Hexenschu&szlig; ging. Was haltet ihr von diesem Begriff?</span><br /><br />Sid: Klassisches Beispiel von christlichem Aberglauben, der einen simplen medizinischen Vorfall wie einen eingeklemmten Nerv dem Wirken von "b&ouml;sen" Hexen zuschreibt - ich wurde daher den Fachbegriff "Lumbago" vorziehen. Damit will ich allerdings nicht behaupten, da&szlig; eine Hexe nicht f&auml;hig w&auml;re, einem ihr &uuml;bel gesonnenen Menschen eine ziemlich alberne K&ouml;rperhaltung aufzuzwingen.....Merke: Hexen &auml;rgern lohnt sich nicht!<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-52" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry19_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Welt ohne Christentum?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-05-15T19:04:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Wie w&uuml;rde eurer Meinung nach die Welt ohne die Christianisierung aussehen?<br /></span><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br />Sid: Ich bezweifle stark, ob eine Welt ohne Christianisierung eine Bessere w&auml;re, denn letztendlich stellt das Christentum nur eine Manifestation der Ignoranz, der Machtbesessenheit und der Intoleranz eines gro&szlig;en Teils der Menschheit dar. Die psychologischen Mechanismen und Verdr&auml;ngungsstrukturen, deren sich die Kirche bedient, gab es schon vor der Etablierung des Christentums, und sie taucht auch in Gesellschaftsformen auf, die nicht christlich gepr&auml;gt sind: Machtmi&szlig;brauch und Unterdr&uuml;ckung sind keine spezifisch christlichen Attribute, sondern scheinen grunds&auml;tzlich immer in m&auml;nnerdominierten Gesellschaften aufzutauchen - matriarchalen Gemeinschaften bzw. V&ouml;lkern sind solche Strukturen weitestgehend fremd!<br /><br />N&auml;x: Ob die Geschichte ohne Christianisierung wesentlich unblutiger verlaufen w&auml;re, wage ich zu bezweifeln, weil (irgendeine) Religion in der Regel nur der Vorwand oder das Vehikel f&uuml;r die Unterdr&uuml;ckung Dritter ist. Der Grund der Unterdr&uuml;ckung ist dann auch immer unreligi&ouml;s. Ohne Christianisierung w&uuml;rden heute zumindest diejenigen Christen fehlen, die ihr Leben in erster Linie nach den christlichen Grundwerten ausrichten.<br /></span><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font:12px Skia-Regular; "><br /></span><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-38" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry18_1.jpg" width="260" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Kirche und Glaube</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-03-21T15:36:17+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Wie steht ihr zur Institution Kirche bzw. dem christlichen Glauben?</span><br /><br />Sid: Ich halte weder etwas von Christentum noch von Kirche (die &uuml;brigens gem&auml;&szlig; neutestamentarischer Quellen keinerlei Legitimation besitzt!), wobei ich mich hierbei nicht spezifisch gegen den christlichen Glauben im Besonderen, sondern gegen jede Art von organisierter Religion bzw. Philosophie, die eigenverantwortliches Denken und Handeln durch Dogmen ersetzt und kein Hinterfragen zul&auml;&szlig;t, wende! Die Kirche hat im Lauf ihrer Geschichte eine Unzahl von grausamen Verbrechen begangen; sei es nun in Form der Kolonialisierung S&uuml;damerikas oder der Hexenverfolgung etc. F&uuml;r diese Verbrechen hat sich die Kirche nie entschuldigt, geschweige denn Wiedergutmachung geleistet, und ein Buch wie der  "Hexenhammer" ist auch heutzutage nach kanonischem Recht ein noch immer g&uuml;ltiges Regelwerk.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Ich f&uuml;r meinen Teil bin von einer katholischen Erziehung gepr&auml;gt und stehe zu den christlichen Grundwerten. Der Amtskirche stehe ich dagegen kritisch gegen&uuml;ber. Der Kern dieser Grundwerte kommt wohl in allen Religionen vor und nach meiner Meinung ist es wichtig, da&szlig; die Menschen &uuml;berhaupt Prinzipien haben, die &uuml;berindividuell und nicht egoistisch sind. Ob und wie der Einzelne solche Werte spirituell einbettet ist jedem sein Bier, wie man im Rheinland zu sagen pflegt.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-39" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry17_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Biblische Mi&#xdf;verst&#xe4;ndnisse?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-01-31T17:46:25+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: W&uuml;rdet ihr die Bibel mit dem Christentum gleichsetzen oder nicht? Anders gefragt: W&uuml;rdet ihr die Bibel als ein zwar gutes, aber gr&uuml;ndlich mi&szlig;verstandenes Buch bezeichnen?<br /></span><br />Sid: Da die Bibel die verbindliche schriftliche Grundlage des Christentums (und im Falle des Alten Testaments auch des Judentums) darstellt, halte ich eine Gleichsetzung von Bibel und Christentum f&uuml;r gerechtfertigt, wobei sich die &uuml;berwiegende Mehrheit der Christen in dem Irrglauben ergeht, bei den B&uuml;chern des alten und neuen Testaments w&uuml;rde es sich um "Gottes eigenes Wort" handeln, "als ob die hohen Himmel sich ge&ouml;ffnet h&auml;tten und wir Gott h&ouml;rten, wie er mit menschlicher Stimme zu uns spricht" (nach D. Burgon: "The Holy Bible", Canterbury 1878).<br /><br />Diese Annahme l&auml;&szlig;t sich mittlerweile allerdings nicht mehr aufrechterhalten; erschien doch bereits im Jahre 1889 ein von katholischen Gelehrten verfasster Sammelband ("Lux Mundi"), der mit der angeblichen Historizit&auml;t und g&ouml;ttlichen Inspiration der Bibel aufr&auml;umt, indem eingestanden wird, da&szlig; es sich bei der Bibel um eine "wirre Masse von Mythen, Legenden und verst&uuml;mmelter geschichtlicher Tatsachen einschlie&szlig;lich zahlreicher sich widersprechender Fakten" handelt (zitiert nach A. D. White: "A History of Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom", New York 1955). In diesem Zusammenhang erstaunt es die Kenner christlicher Wahrheitsliebe wenig, da&szlig; im Jahre 1897 die Index-Kongretaion unter Papst Leo XII. jegliche weiteren diesbez&uuml;glichen Forschungen &uuml;ber die Urspr&uuml;nge der biblischen Texte unter Androhung der Exkommunikation untersagte.<br /><br />In Bezug auf die Authentizit&auml;t der Bibel wurde die Legende verbreitet, da&szlig; das Alte Testament im 3. Jahrhundert v.u.Z. von 72 &Uuml;bersetzern des Ptolem&auml;us auf der Insel Pharos in 72 Tagen vom Hebr&auml;ischen ins Griechische &uuml;bertragen worden sei (daher auch der Name "Septuaginta" f&uuml;r diese &Uuml;bersetzung, wobei der numerologische Symbolismus dieser Legende auf die 72 kabbalistischen Gottesnamen Bezug nimmt). Nach Ablauf der 72 Tage wurden die &Uuml;bersetzungen miteinander verglichen und man stellte fest, da&szlig; sie Wort f&uuml;r Wort miteinander &uuml;bereinstimmten. Zu sch&ouml;n, um wahr zu sein, denn die tats&auml;chliche Geschichte der Bibel verlief um Einiges ungeordneter: Im 1. Jahrhundert v.u.Z. tauchte erstmals eine Sammlung loser Texte auf, die im 1. Jahrhundert n.u.Z. von den Juden in der &auml;gyptischen Diaspora als heilig akzeptiert und von den Christen &uuml;bernommen wurde - und danach erlebten diese Texte unz&auml;hlige Ver&auml;nderungen und Redigierungen: Im 4. Jahrhundert n.u.Z. fertigte Hieronymus eine bemerkenswert ungenaue und l&uuml;ckenhafte &Uuml;bersetzung des Basistextes, die Vulgata, die deutlich vom Original abwich.<br /><br />Die heute meist gebr&auml;uchliche Luther-&Uuml;bersetzung basiert - ebenso wie die King James Bible f&uuml;r den englischen Sprachraum - auf einem griechischen Text, den Erasmus von Rotterdam im 16. Jahrhundert n.u.Z. zusammengetragen und herausgegeben hat; einer Sammlung, die wiederum auf byzantinische Quellen aus 4. - 8. Jahrhunderts n.u.Z. beruht. "Sp&auml;ter wurden einige &auml;ltere Texte entdeckt: die Texte von Qumran (2. Jahrhundert v.u.Z.), die Chester Beatty Papyri (2. - 3. Jahrhundert n.u.Z.), der Codex Sinaiticus und der Codex Vaticanus (beide aus dem 4. Jahrhundert n.u.Z.) sowie der Codex Alexandrinus (5. Jahrhundert n.u.Z.). Alle sind fragmentarisch, sie weichen in wesentlichen Bestandteilen voneinander und von der King James Bibel ab. Es gibt keine bekannten Teile der Bibel, die vor dem 4. Jahrhundert v.u.Z. entstanden sind!" (nach C. F. Pfeiffer: "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible", New York 1969).<br /><br />In diesem Zusammenhang schneidet auch das Neue Testament nicht besser ab, wurde es doch f&auml;lschlicherweise den Aposteln als Verfasser zugeschrieben - eine These, die keiner literaturhistorischen &Uuml;berpr&uuml;fung standh&auml;lt! Des weiteren kommt hinzu, da&szlig; die wirklich interessanten Texte des Neuen Testaments durch die Kirche selbst nach und nach eliminiert wurden; sie wurden exkanonisiert und unter der Bezeichnung "Apokryphen" zusammengefasst. Aus diesen gnostischen Evangelien geht u. a. hervor, da&szlig; Jesus verheiratet war, da&szlig; er kein Einzelkind war (entsprechende Hinweise finden sich sogar noch in Markus 6.3 - hier hat die Kongregation wohl geschlafen!) und da&szlig; es neben den bekannten 12 m&auml;nnlichen Aposteln noch 12 weibliche gab, deren Oberhaupt Maria Magdalena war usw.<br /><br />Die Bibel ist also ein ziemlich konfuses und wirres Werk - kein Wunder, da&szlig; das Christentum, das sich auf dieses merkw&uuml;rdige Sammelsurium beruft, ebenso konfus und realit&auml;tsfern daherkommt! Dar&uuml;ber hinaus handelt es sich bei der Bibel um ein h&ouml;chst gef&auml;hrliches Buch, das u. a. die geistige Grundlage f&uuml;r die Hexenverfolgung schuf (Exodus 22.17: "Eine Hexe sollst Du nicht am Leben lassen"); ganz zu Schweigen von den wiederkehrenden Befehlen Jehovahs in den B&uuml;chern der Richter und der K&ouml;nige, Andersgl&auml;ubige auszurotten, niederzumetzeln und zu vergewaltigen! Die im Alten Testament formulierte Ideologie eines "Auserw&auml;hlten Volkes", dessen hegemoniale Macht- und Eroberungspolitik durch einen eifers&uuml;chtigen und hochgradig parteiischen Gott gerechtfertigt wird, bildet gleichzeitig das Fundament f&uuml;r nachfolgende faschistische Ideologien jeglicher Couleur.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-49" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry16_1.jpg" width="266" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Zur Bedeutung des Namens &#x22;Antichrisis&#x22;</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-07-14T18:29:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Der Name Antichrisis ist ja ein Anagramm, das urspr&uuml;nglich "Heilige T&auml;nze zu Ehren der G&ouml;ttin Isis" bedeutet. Hat dies mit Isis' Rolle als "Alma Mater" in der &auml;gyptischen bzw. mediterranen Welt zu tun, als Herrscherin &uuml;ber Leben und Tod? Laut Robert Ranke-Graves leitet sich Isis von Ish-ish ab, was soviel wie "Sie, die weint" heisst und soll u. a. mit der Vorstellung zusammenh&auml;ngen, da&szlig; der Mond, den sie verk&ouml;rpert, den Morgentau fallen l&auml;&szlig;t. Andererseits wird ihr Weinen auch als Trauer um den von Seth erschlagenen Osiris verstanden und h&auml;ngt mit dem ewigen Kampf der Sonnenk&ouml;nige um die Gunst der Grossen Mutter bzw. der Mondg&ouml;ttin zusammen. Welche Vorstellungen habt ihr von Isis' Herkunft und ihrer religionsgeschichtlichen Bedeutung? Ein anderes schlaues Buch verriet mir, da&szlig; Isis Ra's geheimen Namen gewu&szlig;t haben soll und deshalb so m&auml;chtig wurde. Was hat Isis diese Macht gegeben und Ra erpressbar gemacht? Und w&auml;re es - um auf Antichrisis zur&uuml;ckzukommen - nicht naheliegender gewesen, auf den Namen einer G&ouml;ttin wie Hekate, Artemis oder Freya zur&uuml;ckzugreifen? Weshalb ausgerechnet eine unserem Kulturraum fremde Gestalt wie Isis? Und wie stellt ihr sie euch vor bzw. wie nehmt ihr sie war?<br /></span><br />Sid: Au Mann, das wird wohl ein l&auml;ngerer Exkurs in Religionsgeschichte und &Auml;gyptologie! Also: Der gute Robert Ranke-Graves hat mit dem Buch "Die Weisse G&ouml;ttin", auf dessen Thesen Du Dich hier berufst, zwar ein h&auml;ufig zitiertes, jedoch mitunter recht spekulatives Werk verfasst, das in Hinsicht auf wissenschaftliche Methodik doch Einiges zu w&uuml;nschen &uuml;brig l&auml;&szlig;t. Entgegen seinen Angaben bedeutet "Ish-Ish" - das korrekterweise "Ashesh" heissen m&uuml;&szlig;te - nicht "Sie, die weint", sondern "Das Ausgie&szlig;en" bzw. "Das Ern&auml;hren", was als Hinweis darauf verstanden werden kann, da&szlig; die g&ouml;ttliche Essenz der Isis alle anderen G&ouml;tter und Gesch&ouml;pfe n&auml;hrte und somit am Leben erhielt (nach A. E. Wallis Budge: "Gods of the Egyptians" New York 1969).<br /><br />Es erschiene auch etwas absurd, eine G&ouml;ttin, die den Status einer Alma Mater inne hat, auf eine lediglich um ihren geliebten trauernde Figur reduzieren zu wollen. Isis' wahre Bedeutung erschlie&szlig;t sich vielmehr aus einem von Lucius Apuleius (ca. 125 - 180 n.u.Z.) verfassten Hymnus aus seinen "Metamorphosen", in dem es u. a. hei&szlig;t:<br /><br />"Heilige Frau und Menschenretterin immerdar, allzeit hilfreicher Hort aller Erdenkinder; ja, Du erweisest s&uuml;&szlig;e Mutterliebe den Elenden und Geschlagenen! Nicht Tag noch Nacht oder auch nur ein kurzer Augenblick vergeht ohne Deine Gnadenwirkung; keiner, da Du nicht zu Meer und Land die Menschen beh&uuml;test, Gewitter des Lebens verscheuchst und Deine Rechte zur Hilfe reichst, mit der Du selbst unentwirrbar verstrickte F&auml;den der Parzen aufl&ouml;sest, Schicksalsst&uuml;rme bes&auml;nftigst und b&ouml;se Sterne in ihrem Lauf hemmst....Du drehst das Firmament, entfachst die Sonne; die Welt ist Dein Thron, die H&ouml;lle Dein Schemel. Nach Dir wandeln die Gestirne, wechseln die Jahreszeiten; Dir jauchzen die Geister, dienen die Elemente. Dein Wink macht Winde wehen, Wolken gie&szlig;en, Samen spriessen, Sprosse wachsen. Vor Deiner Hoheit erheben sich die am Himmel ziehenden V&ouml;gel, die auf den Bergen schweifenden Tiere, die am Boden lauernden Schlangen, die im Meere schwimmenden Wale. Doch mir gebricht es an Gaben, Dein Lob zu verk&uuml;nden, und fehlt es an G&uuml;tern, Dir Opfer zu bringen. Ich habe nicht Stimmkraft genug zu sagen, was ich von Deiner Hoheit f&uuml;hle, nicht tausend M&uuml;nder oder Zungen gleicher Art oder ewig regen Redestrom. Was allein der Mensch zu tun vermag, der fromm aber sonst arm ist, das soll also meine Sorge sein: Dein himmlisches Antlitz und hochheiliges g&ouml;ttliches Wesen will ich auf alle Zeit im Schrein meines Herzens bewahren, h&uuml;ten und vor Augen haben!"<br /><br />Und in ihrer Heimat &Auml;gypten wurde Isis angebetet als "Herrin der G&ouml;tter, Du befl&uuml;gelte, Du rotbewandete Gebieterin, K&ouml;nigin mit den Kronen des S&uuml;dens und des Nordens, du Einzige....&uuml;ber der kein Gott sein kann....die Du m&auml;chtig bist durch die Worte der Kraft....die Du &uuml;ber allem stehst; Herrscherin und Gebieterin des Grabes, Mutter am Ende des Himmels! Preis sei Dir, oh Gebieterin, die m&auml;chtiger ist als die G&ouml;tter; Worte der Anbetung m&ouml;gen Dir die acht G&ouml;tter von Hermopolis entgegenbringen. Die lebendigen Seelen an ihren geheimen Orten m&ouml;gen Dein Geheimnis preisen, oh Du, die Du ihre Mutter bist; Du Quell, dem sie entsprangen, die Du ihnen einen Ort in der verborgenen Unterwelt schuffest, die Du ihre Gebeine unversehrt erhieltest und sie vor Schrecken bewahrtest, die Du sie in ihrem ewig w&auml;hrenden Aufenthalt st&auml;rktest. Du bist Isis, die &Auml;lteste der Alten: Du bist die G&ouml;ttin, aus der alles Werden w&auml;chst!"<br /><br />Aufgrund dieser und zahlreicher weiterer Quellen erscheint es mir mehr als unwahrscheinlich, da&szlig; es eine derart m&auml;chtige G&ouml;ttin in mythologischer Hinsicht n&ouml;tig gehabt haben soll, sich mittels Erpressung der Macht eines religionsgeschichtlich relativ sp&auml;t etablierten Sonnengottes zu bedienen, denn w&auml;hrend sich die Verehrung der Isis m&uuml;helos bis zur 1. Thinitischen Dynastie (3400 - 2980 v.u.Z.) zur&uuml;ckverfolgen l&auml;&szlig;t, taucht Ra erstmals in den Schriftrollen der 12. Thebanischen Dynastie (2000 - 1788 v.u.Z.) auf, wobei es sich bei ihm lediglich um die Abwandlung bzw. Maskulinisierung der urspr&uuml;nglich weiblichen G&ouml;ttin von Heliopolis, Rataiut, handelt.<br /><br />Nat&uuml;rlich kannte Isis Ra's Namen, denn gem&auml;&szlig; seiner eigenen Legende war er ihr Sohn! &Uuml;ber ihn war sie allerdings so erz&uuml;rnt, da&szlig; sie ihn mittels seines geheimen Seelennamens mit einem Bann belegte, der nicht zu brechen war und ihn dadurch dazu verdammte, alt und gebrechlich zu werden (nach E. A. Wallis-Budge: "Egyptian Magic", New York 1971). Es kann also keine Rede davon sein, da&szlig; eine "schwache" Isis sich der Macht eines "starken" Sonnengottes bedienen mu&szlig;te - im Gegenteil: Viel eher erscheint es so, als ob Ra auf Isis' Gunst angewiesen war.<br /><br />&Uuml;brigens wurde Isis nicht nur in &Auml;gypten, sondern auch in der griechisch-r&ouml;mischen Welt verehrt, "von Alexandria bis Arles, vom Rand der Sahara bis zu den britischen Inseln, von den Bergen Asturiens bis zur M&uuml;ndung der Donau" (nach Franz Cumont: "Die orientalischen Religionen im R&ouml;mischen Heidentum", Leipzig 1931).<br /><br />Nat&uuml;rlich w&auml;re es naheliegender gewesen, auf eine der grossen G&ouml;ttinen des europ&auml;ischen Kulturkreises zur&uuml;ckzugreifen, doch schon seit meiner Kindheit hat mich die Gestalt der Isis fasziniert: Sie ist f&uuml;r mich die allumfassende Verk&ouml;rperung des Lebens und der Liebe, die K&ouml;nigin des Himmels, die Mutter alles Lebendigen und die H&uuml;terin an der Schwelle des &Uuml;bergangs.<br /><br />Wie ich sie wahrnehme? Da sie alles Leben - Menschen, Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine, Wasser usw. - schuf, wohnt auch ein Teil von ihr in all dem, was sie erschaffen hat, d. h. auch in mir selbst. Und genau in diesem Punkt unterscheidet sich die Gestalt der G&ouml;ttin grunds&auml;tzlich vom christlichen Gottesbegriff: W&auml;hrend der Gott der christlichen Sch&ouml;pfungsmythen stets au&szlig;erhalb seiner Sch&ouml;pfung und vor allem au&szlig;erhalb der Menschen steht, woher nebenbei bemerkt auch die Notwendigkeit einer priesterlichen Vermittlung zwischen Mensch und Gott r&uuml;hrt, begreife ich die G&ouml;ttin als untrennbar mit ihrer Sch&ouml;pfung verbunden. Und da im Grunde genommen jede Frau und jeder Mann die G&ouml;ttin ins sich tr&auml;gt, ist es jedem Menschen prinzipiell m&ouml;glich, einen gott- bzw. g&ouml;ttingleichen Zustand zu erreichen - und das nicht erst in einem wie auch immer gearteten Jenseits!<br /><br />Isis ist f&uuml;r mich keine irreale geistige Projektion, sondern ihr Wesen begegnet mir in jedem Stein, jedem Baum, jedem Hauch des Windes, jeder Welle des Meeres und jedem Regenschauer....doch dieses Art der Wahrnehmung l&auml;&szlig;t sich wahrscheinlich nur schwer vermitteln.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-45" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry15_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Todesstrafe?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-05-16T11:22:52+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">W&uuml;rdet ihr im Fall von Kindesmi&szlig;brauch auch die Todesstrafe f&uuml;r angebracht halten? Mich hat in diesem Zusammenhang der Film "Die Jury" nach einem Buch von John Grisham ziemlich bewegt - kennst ihr zuf&auml;llig diesen Film? Falls ja, wie hat er auf euch gewirkt?<br /></span><br />Sid: Nein, ich kenne weder den Film noch das Buch, und ich bin mir auch bewu&szlig;t, da&szlig; es in einer Gesellschaft wie der unseren niemals eine Patentl&ouml;sung f&uuml;r dieses Problem geben wird: W&auml;re die Todesstrafe das alleinseligmachende Mittel, dann d&uuml;rfte es ja z. B. in den Staaten der USA, in denen sie vollstreckt wird, solche Delikte nicht mehr geben....Gewalt mit Gewalt zu bek&auml;mpfen, ist leider ebenso paradox wie einen Krieg zu f&uuml;hren, um Kriege zu beenden! Nichtsdestotrotz mu&szlig; wie gesagt dem Opfer Gerechtigkeit widerfahren, und Gerechtigkeit kann eben auch den Tod des T&auml;ters bedeuten.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Oh, beim Punkt Todesstrafe mu&szlig; ich mich auch einschalten. Davon halte ich n&auml;mlich &uuml;berhaupt nichts, auch wenn ich ab und an spontan M&ouml;rdern und Kindersch&auml;ndern den Tod w&uuml;nsche. Grunds&auml;tzlich sollte bei der Bestrafung von Vergewaltigern und allgemein triebgesteuerten M&ouml;rdern (was nur die wenigsten M&ouml;rder sind) die Sicherheit der Opfer und der &Ouml;ffentlichkeit im Vordergrund stehen und nicht der Satz: Der M&ouml;rder (Kindersch&auml;nder) ist immer das Opfer. Die gr&ouml;&szlig;tm&ouml;gliche Sicherheit vor den gefa&szlig;ten T&auml;tern (nat&uuml;rlich nicht vor den noch unbekannten) wird selbstverst&auml;ndlich erreicht, wenn diese T&auml;ter kurzerhand selbst get&ouml;tet werden, denn: weg ist weg. Wie man das ethisch/moralisch/religi&ouml;s werten soll, mu&szlig; jeder mit sich ausmachen, ich selbst habe mit dieser pragmatischen L&ouml;sung meine Probleme. Sie bestehen darin, da&szlig; ein Richter nur verurteilen darf, wenn er davon &uuml;berzeugt ist, da&szlig; das, was dem T&auml;ter zur Last gelegt wird, auch tats&auml;chlich geschehen ist. Die Richter haben in dieser Frage einen wirklich schweren Stand, und es kommt dabei entscheidend auf die Beweise an. Nun besagt ein Urteil aber nicht, da&szlig; der Verurteilte auch der T&auml;ter ist, sondern nur, da&szlig; der Richter davon, aus guten Gr&uuml;nden, die er alle benennen mu&szlig;, &uuml;berzeugt ist. Meistens haben die Richter recht. Was aber ist, wenn sich ein Urteil Jahre sp&auml;ter als falsch herausstellt, weil ein neuer Beweis aufgetaucht ist oder weil es neue Beweismethoden gibt? Ein Urteil kann aufgehoben werden, die unschuldig im Gef&auml;ngnis verbrachten Jahre sind zwar weg, aber man lebt noch. Nur der Tod ist irreversibel. Es gibt viele F&auml;lle, in denen sich nach Jahren herausstellte, da&szlig; ein wegen Vergewaltigung verurteilter Gefangener gar nicht der T&auml;ter gewesen sein konnte, weil man mittlerweile in der Lage ist, genetische Informationen zu verwerten. Der wirkliche T&auml;ter wurde darauf bald gefa&szlig;t. W&auml;re dieser Gefangene aber hingerichtet worden, so h&auml;tte die Rechtsordnung und damit die Gesellschaft dessen Tod zu rechtfertigen. In meinen Augen kann fehlende Beweissicherheit aber kein Rechtfertigungsgrund sein, weil ein gleich gro&szlig;er Schutz vor dem T&auml;ter erreicht wird, wenn er blo&szlig; weggesperrt wird, was im Zweifelsfall aber auch wirklich lebenslang bedeuten sollte. F&uuml;r einen zu unrecht Verurteilten ist das zwar immer noch bitter, aber es besteht immerhin die M&ouml;glichkeit der Entlastung und der Entlassung, was nach einer Exekution nicht m&ouml;glich ist. Diese Alternative halte ich daher f&uuml;r vorzugsw&uuml;rdig. Kurz: f&uuml;r mich schlie&szlig;t die M&ouml;glichkeit eines Fehlurteils die Todesstrafe aus.<br /><br />Was die Resozialisierung von Vergewaltigern und Kindersch&auml;ndern angeht, bin ich sehr zur&uuml;ckhaltend. Die Sicherheit vor Menschen, die sich in gef&auml;hrlicher Weise nicht steuern k&ouml;nnen, geht f&uuml;r mich im Zweifelsfall vor. Da&szlig; der Kindesmi&szlig;brauch zugenommen hat, glaube ich nicht. Gl&uuml;cklicherweise wird das Thema derzeit aber so enttabuisiert, da&szlig; sich die Opfer trauen, &uuml;ber das Geschehene zu sprechen und die T&auml;ter (meistens Familienangeh&ouml;rige oder Bekannte) zu benennen. Es werden heute darum einfach mehr F&auml;lle aufgedeckt und &ouml;ffentlich gemacht als fr&uuml;her. Diese Atmosph&auml;re finde ich wichtig, damit die Opfer sich eben nicht zur&uuml;ckziehen m&uuml;ssen, sondern Hilfe erhalten k&ouml;nnen und damit die T&auml;ter aus dem Verkehr gezogen werden. Hieran zeigt sich, da&szlig; Kindesmi&szlig;brauch kein strafrechliches Problem ist, sondern ein gesellschaftliches.<br /><br />Die Rechtsordnung ist in den F&auml;llen zu kritisieren, in denen ein einschl&auml;gig bekannter oder gar verurteilter T&auml;ter in die Freiheit gelangt und r&uuml;ckf&auml;llig (was f&uuml;r ein harmloses W&ouml;rtchen) wird. Mehr als die Bestrafung und Sicherung bekannter T&auml;ter kann man von der Rechtsordnung jedoch nicht verlangen. Eine generalpr&auml;ventive Wirkung von Strafe auf Triebt&auml;ter halte ich f&uuml;r Quatsch, so da&szlig; die gro&szlig;e Aufarbeitung des schrecklichen Ph&auml;nomens Kindesmi&szlig;brauch der gesamten Gesellschaft in allen Ebenen aufgetragen ist. Ein Lied wie "Goodbye to Jane" kann das Bewu&szlig;tsein in der Gesellschaft vom Kindesmi&szlig;brauch zumindest sch&auml;rfen. Ich finde es gut, wenn die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema auf allen (auch musikalischen) Ebenen geschieht.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-30" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry14_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Versagen des Rechtssystems?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-03-06T14:19:23+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Findet ihr, da&szlig; in Hinsicht auf das Thema Kindesmi&szlig;brauch, das ihr in eurem Song "Goodbye to Jane" ansprecht, unser Rechtssystem versagt, da die H&auml;ufigkeit dieser F&auml;lle scheinbar mehr und mehr zunimmt?</span><br /><br />Sid: Die Justiz an sich ist eigentlich das falsche Mittel, um solchen Ausw&uuml;chsen entgegenzusteuern, da jede Form von Rechtsprechung immer erst da ansetzt, wo das Kind sozusagen schon in den Brunnen gefallen ist. Nat&uuml;rlich mu&szlig; ein T&auml;ter seiner gerechten Strafe &uuml;berf&uuml;hrt werden, doch noch besser w&auml;re es, wenn unsere Gesellschaft eine solche w&auml;re, in der solche Taten erst gar nicht vorkommen... Doch abgesehen davon kommt es mir schon so vor, als ob oftmals T&auml;terschutz vor Opferschutz geht: Es ist zwar wichtig, die Frage nach den Ursachen der Tat zu stellen, doch dies darf niemals dazu f&uuml;hren, das Opfer aus den Augen zu verlieren, denn in erster Linie mu&szlig; diesem Gerechtigkeit widerfahren, falls dies &uuml;berhaupt noch m&ouml;glich ist!<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-40" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry13_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Goodbye to Jane</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Lyrics</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2000-06-17T21:15:09+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2000#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: "Goodbye to Jane" behandelt ein Thema, das laut Statistik jedes 7. Kind in Deutschland betrifft. Es ist mir unbegreiflich, wie sich V&auml;ter in dieser Weise an ihren eigenen Kindern vergehen k&ouml;nnen. Glaubt ihr, da&szlig; es eine M&ouml;glichkeit gibt, diese Mi&szlig;st&auml;nde einzud&auml;mmen?</span><br /><br />Sid: Ich glaube nicht, da&szlig; sich unter den gegebenen gesellschaftlichen Verh&auml;ltnissen in Bezug auf die sogenannten Sexualdelikte - egal, ob es sich dabei um Kindesmi&szlig;brauch oder Vergewaltigung handelt - im positiven Sinne etwas &auml;ndern wird, denn dies sind systemimmanente Ausw&uuml;chse einer auf m&auml;nnlichen Wertvorstellungen beruhenden Gesellschaftsform. Bereits eines der Grundlagenwerke des abendl&auml;ndischen Patriarchats, die Bibel, rechtfertigt die alleinige Verf&uuml;gungsgewalt der V&auml;ter &uuml;ber ihre Kinder: So bestimmt z. B. ein Vater seine Tochter zum gottgef&auml;lligen Opfer einer Massenvergewaltigung (Richter 19.24); eine weitere Vaterfigur, Abraham, ist auf Gottes Anweisung hin ohne zu z&ouml;gern bereit, seinem Sohn Isaac die Kehle durchzuschneiden (1. Mose 22.ff), und schlie&szlig;lich ist da noch dieser omin&ouml;se Gott selbst, der im Neuen Testament seinen angeblichen Sohn Jesus einem qualvollen Foltertod preisgibt - wahrhaft beeindruckende Beispiele des patriarchalen Verst&auml;ndnis von Vaterliebe.<br /><br />Daher erscheint mir die erfolgreiche Bek&auml;mpfung von Kindesmi&szlig;brauch und Vergewaltigung ohne eine radikale Infragestellung der patriarchalen Gesellschaftsordnung an sich unm&ouml;glich - es gilt nicht, die Symptome auszumerzen, sondern das &Uuml;bel an der Wurzel zu packen! Wieviel die k&ouml;rperliche und seelische Unversehrtheit einer Frau oder eines Kindes in unserer Gesellschaft wert ist, l&auml;&szlig;t sich schon daran erkennen, da&szlig; ein Delikt wie z. B. Steuerhinterziehung oftmals ein h&ouml;heres Strafma&szlig; f&uuml;r den T&auml;ter nach sich zieht, als das bei Vergewaltigung oder Kindesmi&szlig;brauch der Fall ist. Hinzu kommt, da&szlig; eine Frau, die sich gegen den Versuch einer Vergewaltigung so zur Wehr setzt, da&szlig; der T&auml;ter dabei zu Schaden kommt, selbst noch mit Strafverfolgung zu rechnen hat.<br /><br />Dar&uuml;ber hinaus erlauben die legale Existenz von Pornographie und Prostitution sowie religi&ouml;s-moralisch begr&uuml;ndete Diskriminierungsmechanismen jedem Mann, sich die Verf&uuml;gungsgewalt &uuml;ber eine Frau bzw. ein M&auml;dchen anzuma&szlig;en - und wieso sollte diese vermeintliche m&auml;nnliche Omnipotenz ausgerechnet vor der eigenen Tochter halt machen?<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-29" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry12_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Lieblingssongs</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2003-01-08T21:10:31+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2003#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Es gibt einige Songs, die mich so tief bewegen, da&szlig; diese beim H&ouml;ren immer G&auml;nsehaut erzeugen. Neben Songs von Bands wie Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt oder Sopor Aeturnus geh&ouml;ren auch z. B. "Goodbye to Jane" oder "How can I live on top of the Mountain?" zu dieser Sparte. Kennt ihr auch dieses Gef&uuml;hl? Bei welchen Bands werdet ihr auf diese Art &uuml;berw&auml;ltigt?<br /></span><br />Sid: Klar kenne ich das - allerdings sind es bei mir nicht so sehr Bands an sich, die diese Gef&uuml;hle ausl&ouml;sen, sondern einzelne Lieder bzw. St&uuml;cke - so z. B. Pachelbels Kanon, der III. Satz aus Beethovens 9. Symphonie, der Liebestod aus Wagners "Tristan und Isolde", "For my fallen Angel" von My Dying Bride, "Sanvean" von Dead Can Dance, "Tunnel of Love" von den Dire Straits, "New Dawn Fades" von Joy Division, "If I should fall behind" von Bruce Springsteen, "The Memory of Trees" von Enya, "Up the Junction" von Squeeze, "Shanagolden" von Paddy Day, "Let Down" von Radiohead, "Pillars of Davidson" von Live, "From Adam to Eve" von Nigel Kennedy, "Will You?" von Hazel O'Connor, "Lonesome Highway" von Shane McGowan, "End of the Line" von Mink de Ville, "Hollywood Holiday" von True West, "The Siren of the Woods" von Therion, "Road to Somewhere" von Mark Beer, "With whom to dance" von The Divine Comedy, "Rock'n'Roll Suicide" von David Bowie, "All my little Words" von The Magnetic Fields, "When the Music's over" von den Doors, "This Man, this Street, this Life" von den Cowboy Junkies, "My lonely Sad Eyes" von Them, "Love hurts" von Nazareth, "I gotta be strong" von Gene Pitney, "One" von U2, "Leader of the Pack" von den Shangri-Las, "Here" von den Tindersticks, "Boys of Melody" von The Hidden Cameras...und so k&ouml;nnte es noch endlos weitergehen!<br /><br />N&auml;x: Oh ja, das ist immer noch die beste Musik, die von den Ohren direkt ins zentrale Nervensystem geht, unter Umgehung des Haupthirns. Genial! Dieses Gef&uuml;hl erzeugen bei mir vor allem einige Balladen von Loreena McKennitt, die schnellen Sets der Bothy Band und der "Buuredanz" und "P&auml;nz, P&auml;nz, P&auml;nz" von den Bl&auml;ck F&ouml;ss...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-17" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry11_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Szenezugeh&#xf6;rigkeit</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-07-04T21:05:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">F&uuml;hlt ihr euch der Gothic-Metal-Szene oder &uuml;berhaupt einer bestimmten Szene zugeh&ouml;rig?</span><br /><br />N&auml;x: Nein, ich f&uuml;hle mich keiner Szene zugeh&ouml;rig. Neben der von mir bevorzugten irischen Musik mag ich auch Musik aus anderen Stilrichtungen, so lange sie gut ist und mich ber&uuml;hrt. Genauso freut es mich, wenn Menschen, die sich f&uuml;r eine Musikszene entschieden haben, unsere Musik h&ouml;ren und daran Spa&szlig; haben, einfach um der Musik und nicht um der Szene willen. Vielleicht entdecken diese Menschen bei uns Stile, die sie normalerweise nicht h&ouml;ren, oder in dieser Kombination noch nicht kannten.<br /><br />Sid: Da jede Art von Szenezugeh&ouml;rigkeit automatisch eine Einschr&auml;nkung des eigenen Blickwinkels bedeutet, halte ich mich erfolgreich aus jedwedem Szenekl&uuml;ngel heraus bzw. bewege mich eigentlich st&auml;ndig am Rande vieler verschiedener Szenen, aus denen ich mir dann das Beste herauspicke..."Szene" ist mir einfach zu engstirnig, als da&szlig; ich mich darin wohlf&uuml;hlen k&ouml;nnte, und so w&uuml;rde ich mir auch w&uuml;nschen, da&szlig; Antichrisis nicht nur von einer bestimmten Klientel vereinnahmt wird, denn das, was wir in unserer Musik zum Ausdruck bringen wollen, geht weit &uuml;ber irgendwelche Szenegrenzen hinaus.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-36" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry10_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musikalische Einfl&#xfc;sse</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2007-02-14T20:59:57+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2007#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#CCBE70;">Frage: Was sind eure musikalischen Einfl&uuml;&szlig;e bzw. Lieblingsbands?</span><br /><br />Sid: Meine Einfl&uuml;&szlig;e sind vielf&auml;ltiger Natur: Ich h&ouml;re sehr gerne klassische Musik von Komponisten wie z. B. Beethoven, Wagner, Rossini, Lassus oder auch Palestrina, wohingegen ich aus dem Bereich der zeitgen&ouml;ssischen Musik Bands bzw. Interpreten wie The Pogues, Bruce Springsteen, Hidden Cameras, Tindersticks, The Good The Bad & The Queen, The Killers, Radiohead, The Clash, The Mekons, The Jam, Them, Joy Division, Blondie, Soft Cell, Social Distortion, Mink de Ville, Dead Can Dance, Mountain Goats, EA 80, Jonathan Richman, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Magnetic Fields oder auch The Divine Comedy bevorzuge.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Beeinflu&szlig;t wurde ich fr&uuml;h von der Salsa- und Andenmusik meiner peruanischen Mutter, was aber bei meinen heutigen musikalischen Aktivit&auml;ten so gut wie nie h&ouml;rbar ist. Die fr&uuml;hen Pogues haben da schon h&ouml;rbarere Spuren hinterlassen. Als musikalische Bezugsperson mu&szlig; ich Tom Kannmacher nennen, der schon in den 70er Jahren auf traditionellen Instrumenten Musik gespielt und aufgenommen hat. Er hat mir auch die Bedienung der Uilleann Pipes beigebracht.<br /><br />Musik, die ich gerne h&ouml;re, weil sie mich ber&uuml;hrt, stammt vor allem von der Bothy Band, Planxty, Liam O'Flynn, den fr&uuml;hen Pogues, Celtas Cortos und wer sonst noch irische Musik spielt oder sie mit jedweder anderer Musik verbindet. Daneben h&ouml;re ich gerne den fr&uuml;hen Grandmaster Flash, Molotow Soda, Perotin, Afro Cuban All Stars, Dead Can Dance usw.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-9" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry9_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#xdc;ber das Schreiben von Songs</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-06-06T20:56:52+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Wie kann man nur einen so genialen Song wie "The Sea" schreiben? Habt ihr eine Vorliebe f&uuml;r lange, komplexe Songs? M&ouml;gt ihr progressive Rockmusik wie z. B. fr&uuml;he Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Marillion, IQ?</span><br /><br />N&auml;x: Tja, was Rockmusik und ihre Variationen angeht, mu&szlig; ich leider gestehen, da&szlig; ich da ein unbeschriebenes Blatt bin. Eine Vorliebe f&uuml;r komplexe St&uuml;cke habe ich nicht. Was mir meist als "komplex" begegnet, sind Songs, die aus einer Unzahl zusammenhangsloser Musikst&uuml;ckchen zusammengesetzt sind, weshalb diese Titel f&uuml;r mich nur schwer nachzuvollziehen und fast nie wiederzuerkennen sind. Ich will einen Song aber nicht erst rational aufarbeiten m&uuml;ssen, damit er mir gefallen kann. Wenn dagegen ein Titel eine Linie verfolgt und in sich stimmig wirkt, kann er auch aus vielen verschieden Teilen bestehen. Diese Art von Komplexit&auml;t kann aber nur Mittel zum Zweck, jedoch niemals Selbstzweck sein. Das ganze mu&szlig; passen. Vielleicht sollte ich mal fr&uuml;he Genesis, Yes, King Crimson oder Marillion h&ouml;ren?<br /><br />Sid: Ich habe mich bei "The Sea" nicht einfach mit dem Vorsatz hingesetzt, einen extrem komplexen Song zu schreiben....ich hatte einfach pl&ouml;tzlich die Idee f&uuml;r den Refrain, und vor allem waren da ganz klare Bilder vor meinem inneren Auge, die ich mit T&ouml;nen und Worten beschreiben wollte - und aus dieser Grundidee heraus wuchs dann der ganze Song organisch weiter. Ich h&auml;tte Anfangs auch nicht gedacht, da&szlig; er so lang geraten w&uuml;rde (immerhin fast 14 Minuten), doch meine Songs scheinen einfach eine Eigendynamik zu entwickeln, die sich meinem Einflu&szlig; entzieht, und vor allem folgen sie ihren eigenen Gesetzm&auml;&szlig;igkeiten, weshalb auf "A Legacy of Love" auch kein Song wie der andere klingt.<br /><br />Das bedeutet aber nicht, da&szlig; ich eine besondere Vorliebe f&uuml;r lange und komplexe Songs h&auml;tte: Zum Einen enthalten unsere Alben ebenso einige kurze St&uuml;cke, und zum Anderen empfinde ich lange St&uuml;cke wie "Trying not to Breathe", "Forever I Ride" oder auch "The Sea" gar nicht als komplex im eigentlichen Sinn: So tauchen in den Songs zwar die unterschiedlichsten Strukturen und Versatzst&uuml;cke auf, doch diese sind f&uuml;r sich genommen immer leicht zug&auml;nglich und nachvollziehbar; sie stellen zumeist Variationen des Grundthemas dar und sind bei weitem nicht so "verfrickelt" wie ein Gro&szlig;teil der Werke der von Dir angef&uuml;hrten Bands, die ich - mit Ausnahme von King Crimson - auch nicht so toll finde, da ich in ihren Songs meist den Roten Faden vermisse. Ich kann oftmals zwar geistig nachvollziehen, was diese Bands an technischen Finessen in ihre Songs einbauen, doch emotional ber&uuml;hrt es mich in keinster Weise. Ich bin wahrscheinlich viel zu sehr vom Folk versaut, um Virtuosit&auml;t nur um ihrer selbst Willen geb&uuml;hrend bewundern zu k&ouml;nnen...<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-37" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry8_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Wer schreibt die Songs?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-11-09T20:51:08+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C2B05B;">Frage: Die Songs auf "A Legacy of Love" klingen gef&uuml;hlsbetont und mitreissend zugleich - wer ist bei euch f&uuml;r die Musik verantwortlich?<br /></span><br />N&auml;x: Verantwortlich f&uuml;r die Songs ist bei uns Sid. Bevor er die St&uuml;cke schreibt, erlebt er sie erst mal - das ist auch der Grund, warum die Musik so gef&uuml;hlsbetont ist. Wenn das Ger&uuml;st eines St&uuml;ckes steht, wird es gemeinsam ausgebaut und weiterentwickelt. Wir lassen uns mit dem Arrangieren gen&uuml;gend Zeit, damit das, was durch das St&uuml;ck vermittelt werden soll, auch h&ouml;rbar wird.<br /><br />Sid: Vielleicht ist das, was Antichrisis am meisten von vielen anderen Bands unterscheidet, einfach der Umstand, da&szlig; es bei uns nicht um irgendwelche erfundenen Geschichten, &uuml;bernommene Klischees oder aufgesetzten Images geht, sondern da&szlig; sich in den Songs meine Gef&uuml;hlswelt v&ouml;llig unverstellt pr&auml;sentiert. Durch die Musik trage ich mein Innerstes nach Aussen. Jeder, der meine Musik h&ouml;rt oder meine Texte liest, hat praktisch direkten Zugriff auf meine innere Erlebniswelt. Noch direkter, verletzbarer und offener als in meinen Songs kann ich im Grunde genommen kaum werden, und diese Direktheit kann den Zuh&ouml;rer bei entsprechender Bereitschaft, f&uuml;r die Dauer eines Songs meine Welt zu betreten, nat&uuml;rlich stark ber&uuml;hren: Ich lasse ihn ohne jegliche Zensur oder Selbstschutzmechanismen an allen H&ouml;hen und Tiefen, die ich durchlebt habe, teilnehmen.<br /><br />Was den ausschlie&szlig;lich handwerklichen Aspekt von Antichrisis betrifft, so gebe ich diesbez&uuml;glich quasi den Rahmen vor, innerhalb dessen sich alle anderen beteiligten MusikerInnen v&ouml;llig frei bewegen k&ouml;nnen. Zwar schreibe ich die Songs und lege dadurch die grunds&auml;tzliche Richtung fest, doch ich habe gleichzeitig grossen Respekt den k&uuml;nstlerischen F&auml;higkeiten aller anderen Beteiligten, so da&szlig; ich ihnen niemals vorschreiben w&uuml;rde, was sie zu tun haben - ich lege h&ouml;chstens mein Veto ein, wenn mir ein Beitrag mal gar nicht gefallen sollte, was allerdings nur selten vorkommt.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-42" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry7_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Folk im Vordergrund</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Albums</category><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-11-23T17:07:43+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C0AD5A;">Frage: Mir fiel auf, da&szlig; "A Legacy of Love" sehr viel folk-orientierter ist als euer Deb&uuml;t-Album, besonders in Bezug auf den irischen Dudelsack. Wie genau seid ihr auf die Idee gekommen, gerade dieses Element vorrangig zu verwenden? Und woher kommen die vielf&auml;ltigen Einfl&uuml;&szlig;e?<br /></span><br />Sid: Da ich die St&uuml;cke f&uuml;r Antichrisis grunds&auml;tzlich auf der akustischen Gitarre komponiere, ist es naheliegend, da&szlig; sich dabei schnell eine folkloristische Note einschleicht: Die E-Gitarre spielt auf "A Legacy of Love" keine grosse Rolle bzw. wird (von einigen Soli abgesehen) nur an wenigen Stellen zur Untermalung eingesetzt. Tja, und da N&auml;x ein hervorragender Piper ist, der den Dudelsack genau so spielt, wie ich es mir vorstelle, ergibt sich aus dieser Kombination automatisch ein st&auml;rkerer Folk-Einflu&szlig;...<br /><br />Ich liebe den irischen Dudelsack wegen seiner nat&uuml;rlichen Klangfarbe: Richtig gespielt bringt er diesen klagenden und sehnsuchtsvollen Ton zustande, der genau zur Musik von Antichrisis  pa&szlig;t - und dar&uuml;ber hinaus finde ich es vom Konzept her interessant, diesem traditionellen Instrument die Funktion zuzuteilen, die normalerweise - zumindest in der Rockmusik - die E-Gitarre inne hat. Nimm z. B. einen Song wie "Baleias": In der Version auf dem Debut-Album war das St&uuml;ck noch vom E-Gitarren-Sound dominiert, w&auml;hrend er in der neuen Version auf "A Legacy of Love" lediglich mittels akustischer Instrumenten vorgetragen wird - und trotzdem wirkt der Song in der Neufassung dynamischer, weil er vom rhythmischen Ger&uuml;st her wie ein traditionelles irisches Tanzst&uuml;ck gehalten wurde....es gibt eine solch reichhaltige musikalische Tradition in der irischen Musik, von der ich mich nur zu gerne inspirieren lasse.<br /><br />Die vielf&auml;ltigen Einfl&uuml;&szlig;e in der Musik von Antichrisis kommen daher, da&szlig; ich beim Verfassen eines Songs niemals einer bestimmten Vorstellung folge: Manchmal bin ich selbst &uuml;berrascht, in welche Richtung sich ein St&uuml;ck entwickelt. Doch ich selbst bestimme nie, wie die Umsetzung zu geschehen hat: Jeder Song w&auml;hlt seinen eigenen Weg, indem sich der Inhalt die passende Form sucht - und diese Arbeitsweise verhindert, da&szlig; Antichrisis auf einen bestimmten Stil festgenagelt werden k&ouml;nnte. Zwar finden sich bei Antichrisis Elemente von Gothic, Dark Wave, Folk, Metal, Grunge usw., doch kann unsere Musik niemals auf lediglich eine dieser Spielarten reduziert werden; und sie ist auch weit davon entfernt, lediglich einen Crossover darzustellen, weil jedes dieser Elemente nur dann zum Einsatz kommt, wenn es der Logik des jeweiligen Songs folgend auch seine Berechtigung hat....das alles klingt jetzt vermutlich ziemlich kopflastig, ist aber im Grunde genommen ein organischer Prozess, der es mir erlaubt, mich eines &auml;u&szlig;erst breiten Spektrums unterschiedlichster Stilistiken zu bedienen.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Die Songs des neuen Albums sind von der Anlage her folkiger, weil der unverzerrte Klang der Instrumente den meisten St&uuml;cken gerechter wird als ein Metal-lastiger Sound. Die klangliche Ver&auml;nderung hat ihren Grund aber auch darin, da&szlig; der Inhalt der St&uuml;cke ein anderer ist als auf "Cantara Anachoreta". Wo es pa&szlig;te, haben wir E-Gitarren & Distortion eingesetzt, aber ein St&uuml;ck wie "Dancing in the Midnight Sun" w&uuml;rde im reinen Metal-Gewand wohl kaum wirken. Das Folk-Feeling wird schlie&szlig;lich dadurch verst&auml;rkt, da&szlig; wir auch folkloristische Instrumente wie irischen Dudelsack, Fl&ouml;ten oder Mandoline einsetzen. Zum Einen bauen wir traditionelle irische St&uuml;cke in die Songs ein, zum Anderen nutzen wir den "folkigen" Klang der Pipes, um damit Soli oder Begleitungen zu spielen, die sonst normalerweise die E-Gitarre &uuml;bernimmt.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-41" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry6_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Zu wenig Interviews?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2001-10-09T17:04:29+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C0AD5A;">Frage: Warum gibt es von euch eigentlich nur so wenige Interviews zu lesen? Redet ihr nicht gerne &uuml;ber euch und eure Musik, oder lese ich einfach nur die falschen Magazine? Welche Art von Interviews bevorzugt ihr generell - schriftliche, telefonische oder pers&ouml;nliche? Das gleiche gilt &uuml;brigens auch f&uuml;r Fotos - auf keiner eurer Ver&ouml;ffentlichungen gab es bisher welche, lediglich zur letzten CD gab es zu einigen Interviews eine Fotografie zu sehen. Eine Band wie Dead Can Dance z. B. argumentiert hier so, da&szlig; immer die Musik im Vordergrund stehen sollte und deshalb die Band bzw. die Personen unwichtig sind. W&uuml;rdest Du ihnen zustimmen?</span><br /><br />Sid: Fotos oder Interviews haben f&uuml;r mich nichts mit der eigentlichen Musik zu tun, sondern dienen lediglich der Schaffung eines Images, an dem sich wiederum die H&ouml;rerschaft orientiert, was eigentlich idiotisch ist, denn Musik sollte immer f&uuml;r sich selbst und losgel&ouml;st von allen sonstigen Faktoren sprechen.<br /><br />Ich finde Interviews grunds&auml;tzlich dann interessant, wenn sie mich zum Nachdenken zwingen und ich nicht einfach irgendwelche Standardantworten abspulen mu&szlig;. Wenn ich selbst dabei noch hinterfragt werde, um so besser! Pers&ouml;nliche Interviews sind mir diesbez&uuml;glich am liebsten, weil sich aus ihnen noch am ehesten ein Dialog entwickeln kann, doch an sich kommt es wirklich auf die Qualit&auml;t der Fragen an und darauf, wie stark sich der Interviewer mit der Arbeit des Befragten besch&auml;ftigt hat.<br /><br />Fotografien? Presse und H&ouml;rerschaft verlangen danach, mir selbst sind sie eher unwichtig, denn ich wei&szlig; ja, wie ich aussehe und - an dieser Stelle teile ich die Einstellung von Dead Can Dance - es lenkt u. U. von der Musik ab, weil durch jedes Bild sofort eine optische Kategorisierung durch den Betrachter vorgenommen wird. Daher versuche ich, die Cover von ANTICHRISIS so zu gestalten, da&szlig; sie nicht unbedingt R&uuml;ckschl&uuml;sse auf die Musik zulassen und dennoch eine harmonische Einheit mit ihr bilden.<br /><br />N&auml;x: Ich pers&ouml;nlich gebe am liebsten pers&ouml;nliche, telefonische oder schriftliche Interviews, wobei letztere den einzigen Vorteil haben, da&szlig; ich sie beantworten kann, wann ich will. Auch wenn ich lieber Musik mache, rede ich auch dar&uuml;ber oder &uuml;ber mich. Wenn's die Menschen interessiert sollen sie ruhig zu Hauf losfragen und die Antworten abdrucken. Ich sperre mich nicht gegen Interviews oder Fotos und schon gar nicht mit dem Argument, da&szlig; die Musik im Vordergrund stehen sollte. Schlie&szlig;lich steht, vielmehr klingt Musik ja nicht nur f&uuml;r sich allein, sondern sie wird von Menschen vermittelt und h&ouml;rbar gemacht, die dies aus einem bestimmten Grund und in einer bestimmten Stimmung und in einer Bestimmten Art tun. M&ouml;chte ein H&ouml;rer nicht nur wissen, da&szlig; eine Musik so klingt wie sie klingt, sondern auch, warum sie so klingt, so ist er auf Informationen &uuml;ber die Musiker und am besten auf Informationen von den Musikern selbst angewiesen. Solche Ausk&uuml;nfte erweitern das Verst&auml;ndis f&uuml;r die Musik um solche Aspekte, die sich gerade nicht durch den Klang alleine vermitteln lassen.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-19" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry5_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Aura des Geheimnisvollen?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>About Antichrisis</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2001-08-19T16:59:35+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2001#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C0AD5A;">Frage: Gebt ihr eigentlich gerne Interviews, oder seht ihr das nur als l&auml;stige Verpflichtung? Weshalb umgibt sich Antichrisis mit der Aura des Geheimnisvollen?<br /></span><br />Sid: Wenn die Fragestellung interessant ist, beantworte ich Interviews durchaus gerne; werden dagegen nur die &uuml;blichen Standardfragen gestellt, ist es nat&uuml;rlich eher langweilig, weil man zum x-ten Male ein- und dieselben Statements von sich gibt. Ansonsten sind Interviews wahrscheinlich f&uuml;r jede(n) MusikerIn eine zweischneidige Angelegenheit, denn u. U. geht f&uuml;r die Beantwortung derselben sehr viel Zeit drauf, die man lieber f&uuml;r das eigentliche Musikmachen verwenden w&uuml;rde. Doch nat&uuml;rlich will man den eigenen Bekanntheitsgrad erh&ouml;hen, und somit geh&ouml;ren Interviews zum t&auml;glichen Brot in der Musikbranche - dementsprechend sollte man sich entsprechend M&uuml;he damit geben.<br /><br />Ich habe eigentlich nie beabsichtigt, Antichrisis mit der Aura des "Geheimnisvollen" zu umgeben: Mir geht es lediglich darum, meine Musik nicht &uuml;ber irgendein festgelegtes Image zu verkaufen, sondern jede Art von Assoziation zuzulassen. Ich m&ouml;chte vermeiden, da&szlig; Antichrisis in irgendeine Schublade gesteckt wird...<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-20" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry4_1.jpg" width="266" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Kommerz und Kalk&#xfc;l?</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Music</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1999-12-13T16:54:42+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1999#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C0AD5A;">Frage: Kommentiere doch mal folgende Aussage: "Antichrisis ist ein durch und durch kommerzielles Produkt. Die kalkulierte Mischung aus Gothic und folkloristischen Kl&auml;ngen ist derzeit voll im Trend. In den Interviews geben die Musiker scheinbar tiefsch&uuml;rfende Antworten mit Pseudoanspruch, so da&szlig; der Eindruck entsteht, es handle sich um ein ehrliches Projekt ohne kommerzielle Absichten, doch in Wirklichkeit ist alles eine durchkalkulierte Anbiederung an den Massengeschmack!" Was w&uuml;rdest Du einer solchen Aussage entgegenhalten?<br /></span><br />Sid: Gegen eine solche Aussage habe ich im Prinzip nichts einzuwenden, denn Antichrisis verf&uuml;gt nun mal &uuml;ber ein gewisses kommerzielles Potential, da ich stets Wert auf Melodik und Nachvollziehbarkeit meiner musikalischen Entw&uuml;rfe lege: So komplex manche Songs auch erscheinen m&ouml;gen - ihre einzelnen Bestandteile bleiben immer nachvollziehbar! Im Grunde genommen mache ich nur Pop-Musik mit etwas anderen Mitteln: Selbstverst&auml;ndlich ist diese Art von Musik kalkuliert im Sinne von "durchdacht": Ich &uuml;berlege mir beim Arrangieren der St&uuml;cke genau, welche Teile wie ineinandergreifen, welchen Part ich mit welchen stilistischen Mitteln am Besten umsetzen kann, denn ich bin kein Freund w&uuml;sten Durcheinanders nur um der Vielfalt willen.<br /><br />Trendy? Mag sein - doch ich alleine vermag keinen Trend zu kreieren, und die Musik, die ich mache, w&uuml;rde ich auch dann noch machen, wenn sie absolut "out of time" w&auml;re. Wenn dieser Stil im Moment angesagt sein sollte, um so besser, denn dieser Umstand w&uuml;rde eindeutig die Chance erh&ouml;hen, so viele Tontr&auml;ger wie m&ouml;glich zu verkaufen - immerhin w&uuml;rde ich gerne von meiner Musik leben k&ouml;nnen, doch um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sollte ich vermutlich mit jedem Album die musikalische Formel von "Cantara Anachoreta" wiederholen, anstatt nach neuen Ausdrucksformen zu suchen!<br /><br />Vermeintliche Ehrlichkeit und Pseudoanspruch? Die Musik von Antichrisis spiegelt eben meine Pers&ouml;nlichkeit mit all ihren Facetten wider, und in Interviews gebe ich mich so, wie ich bin - wenn dies jemand als Marketingmasche empfindet, kann ich das nicht &auml;ndern, ist aber letztendlich auch nicht mein Problem.<br /><br />Und was sagen eigentlich Begriffe wie "trendy" oder "kommerziell" &uuml;ber die eigentliche Qualit&auml;t von Musik aus? Ist Musik etwa nur so lange "gut", wie sie von einem m&ouml;glichst kleinen und exklusiven Kreis von Insidern geh&ouml;rt wird (dann m&uuml;&szlig;te im Umkehrschlu&szlig; Musik immer besser werden, je weniger Menschen sie h&ouml;ren)!? Wird ein Song etwa automatisch dadurch schlecht, da&szlig; er popul&auml;r wird oder in die Charts gelangt? Ganz so einfach ist die Sache nicht... doch wer Musik nach solchen Ma&szlig;st&auml;ben beurteilt, dem geht es sowieso nicht um die Musik selbst, sondern darum, pseudo-elit&auml;re Nabelschau zu betreiben - und wird dadurch genau so manipulierbar wie jeder herk&ouml;mmliche Boygroup-Fan.<br /><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-34" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry3_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Musik und Mi&#xdf;st&#xe4;nde</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>Miscellaneous</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>1998-02-20T16:36:04+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/1998#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color:#C0AD5A;">Frage: Glaubt ihr, da&szlig; ihr mit der Musik von Antichrisis bestimmte Mi&szlig;st&auml;nde anprangern k&ouml;nnt und vielleicht sogar solltet?<br /></span><br />Sid: Nat&uuml;rlich! Wenn ich das Thema Kindesmi&szlig;handlung (wie in "Goodbye to Jane") aufgreifen will, warum nicht? Musik kann durchaus als Vehikel, um soziale oder politische Mi&szlig;st&auml;nde anzuprangern, benutzt werden und diesbez&uuml;glich Einiges bewirken. Ich halte &uuml;berhaupt nichts von den Statements einiger Musiker, die die Meinung vertreten, Politik habe nichts in der Musik zu suchen. Es gibt meiner Meinung nach ganz hervorragende politische Songs oder auch Bands wie z. B. &ldquo;Rage against the Machine&rdquo; - was immer man auch musikalisch von ihnen halten mag. Doch wenn ich Interviews mit Mitgliedern von RATM lese, merke ich schon, da&szlig; sehr viel pers&ouml;nliches Engagement hinter dieser Band steckt und davor habe ich grossen Respekt.<br /><p style="text-align:center;"><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-48" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry2_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (English)&#x2c; April 2006</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Entries in English</category><dc:date>2006-04-15T06:08:44+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dear Antichrisis-Devotees!<br /><br />Bad news first: The release of "The Legacy Remains" will be delayed due to business matters! As the promo campaign for "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" has just started recently (which means that those being unfamiliar with Antichrisis up to now will perceive "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" as a brand new album release of May 2006) , it would be rather imprudent to present "The Legacy Remains" within the next few months. I'm afraid you will have to wait for X-mas or January/February 2007 for Antichrisis' new output...<br /><br />Nevertheless this gives us the chance to release an album full of great material, as so many new songs have been written and recorded hence only the finest tracks will make it on "The Legacy Remains" - it will definitely be worth listening to!<br /><br />Besides, everything else is working out fine. After a rather long and cold german winter, spring has finally sprung and I'm looking forward to some more recording sessions with Antichrisis as well as Blindflug, a german speaking project of Bernd and me.<br /><br />As I do enjoy performing live, I've also put up another side project with Bernd, Flo and Katja, Antichrisis' new female vocalist, called Folkstone Gang. We're doing both cover versions as well as our own stuff, and if you should happen to live in the Nuremberg area, you might want to see us live at<br /><p style="text-align:center;">4th July 2006, Irish Castle, Nuremberg <br>
16th December 2006, Pegnitzb&uuml;hne e. V., Nuremberg<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Keep in mind that the aforementioned gigs are Folkstone Gang- and not Antichrisis-gigs, which means that only a few Antichrisis songs will be performed. Nevertheless I'm sure you'll enjoy a very special evening with good songs and a very "folky" atmosphere!<br /><br />Those of you just interested in Antichrisis will have the chance to see Antichrisis Unplugged (i. e. Katja and Sid only) live on stage at the Balladentag on 24th September 2006 at the Kofferfabrik Fuerth. This event is organised by Florian Baessler, a highly appreciated singer/guitarist, and it'll give you an overview of the singer/songwrighter-scene of my home area. As it is some kind of festival, the playing time of each artist/band is restricted to 15 minutes, notwithstanding Katja and me will play a fine selection of old and new Antichrisis-material (By the way: Blindflug Unplugged will also appear on stage). Please note that Antichrisis Unplugged will already start at 3:20 pm; admission is free!<br /><br />I guess that's all for today: A very merry Beltane to all of you and many thanks for your loyal support! And maybe I'll be seeing you at some of the aforementioned gigs...?<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-11" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry1_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>News (German)&#x2c; April 2006</title><dc:creator>sid@antichrisis.net</dc:creator><category>News</category><category>Eintr&#xe4;ge auf Deutsch</category><dc:date>2006-04-15T06:06:15+02:00</dc:date><link>http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.antichrisis.net/files/2006#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Liebe Antichrisis-Fans!<br /><br />Die schlechten Nachrichten zuerst: Die Ver&ouml;ffentlichung von "The Legacy Remains" wird sich leider noch etwas verz&ouml;gern! Da die Promotion-Kampagne f&uuml;r "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" erst in diesen Tagen beginnt (was bedeutet, dass der Teil der &Ouml;ffentlichkeit, der bislang noch nicht mit dem Schaffen von Antichrisis vertraut war, "A Legacy Of Love Mark II" als Neuver&ouml;ffentlichung im Mai 2006 ansehen wird) , w&auml;re es in marketingtechnischer Hinsicht nicht besonders ratsam, "The Legacy Remains" innerhalb der n&auml;chsten Monate zu ver&ouml;ffentlichen. So werdet ihr wohl erst Ende dieses oder Anfang n&auml;chsten Jahres das neueste Antichrisis-Album in euren H&auml;nden halten k&ouml;nnen...<br /><br />Da in den letzten Monaten so viele neue Songs geschrieben und aufgenommen wurden, werden es allerdings nur die besten St&uuml;cke auf "The Legacy Remains" schaffen - und somit wird sich die Wartezeit auf das Album ganz bestimmt lohnen!<br /><br />Ansonsten l&auml;uft jedoch alles bestens: Nach dem langen und dunklen Winter scheint sich nun endlich der Fr&uuml;hling hervorzuwagen, und ich freue mich schon auf die bevorstehenden Aufnahmen mit Antichrisis wie auch mit Blindflug, dem deutschsprachigen Bandprojekt von Bernd und mir.<br /><br />Da ich auch gerne live auftrete, habe ich zusammen mit Bernd, Flo und Katja, der neuen Antichrisis-S&auml;ngerin, auch noch ein Nebenprojekt namens Folkstone Gang ins Leben gerufen. In dieser Formation spielen wir sowohl Cover-Versionen wie auch eigenes Material, und falls ihr zuf&auml;llig aus N&uuml;rnberg oder Umgebung kommt, k&ouml;nnt ihr uns auch live sehen, und zwar am:<br /><p style="text-align:center;">4. Juli 2006, im Irish Castle in N&uuml;rnberg, und am <br>16. Dezember 2006 in der Pegnitzb&uuml;hne e. V. in N&uuml;rnberg<br /></p><p style="text-align:left;">Um Verwechslungen zu vermeiden, sei an dieser Stelle noch einmal ausdr&uuml;cklich darauf hingewiesen, dass es sich bei den beiden o. a. Veranstaltungen um Auftritte der Folkstone Gang und nicht von Antichrisis handelt: Das soll nicht heissen, dass keine Antichrisis-Songs dargeboten werden w&uuml;rden, aber der Schwerpunkt liegt eindeutig auf anderem Material. Nichtsdestotrotz bin ich sicher, dass ihr diese eher "folkigen" Gigs geniessen werdet.<br /><br />Diejenigen von euch, die ausschliesslich an Antichrisis interessiert sind, wird es sicherlich freuen zu h&ouml;ren, dass einer unserer seltenen Unplugged-Auftritte (d. h. nur Katja, ich und eine Akustikgitarre) im Rahmen des Balladentags am 24. September 2006 in der Kofferfarbik F&uuml;rth stattfinden wird. Der Balladentag wird von Florian Baessler, einem au&szlig;ergew&ouml;hnlichen S&auml;nger und Gitarristen aus Erlangen, organisiert, und stellt einen guten &uuml;berblick &uuml;ber das kreative Schaffen der S&auml;nger- und Songwriter-Szene im St&auml;dtedreieck N&uuml;rnberg - F&uuml;rth - Erlangen dar. Da es sich beim Balladentag um ein kleines Festival handelt, wurde die Spielzeit aller K&uuml;nstler/Bands auf 15 Minuten pro Auftritt beschr&auml;nkt, doch Katja und ich werden trotz der K&uuml;rze der Zeit einige alte wie auch neue Antichrisis-Songs zu Geh&ouml;r bringen (&uuml;brigens wird bei dieser Veranstaltung auch Blindflug Unplugged dabei sein). Bitte beachtet, dass der Auftritt von Antichrisis Unplugged bereits um 15:20 beginnt; der Eintritt ist frei.<br /><br />Das ist alles f&uuml;r heute: Ich w&uuml;nsche euch ein gl&uuml;ckliches Beltane - und habt Dank f&uuml;r eure unerm&uuml;dliche Unterst&uuml;tzung! Und wer weiss: vielleicht sehen wir uns ja bei einer der oben erw&auml;hnten Veranstaltungen? Ich w&uuml;rde mich freuen...<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="imageStyle" alt="Bild-12" src="http://www.antichrisis.net/files/page6_blog_entry0_1.jpg" width="267" height="200"/></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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