Lacrimosa Comments On Upcoming 20th Anniversary Album
"Schattenspiel"
Lacrimosa is set to release a 20th anniversary album titled
"Schattenspiel" on May 7th, 2010. The band has now issued the
following comment about the release:
"The one or other might ask himself, why don't Lacrimosa simply
release a 'Best of Compilation'?
Very easy: a 'Best of Compilation' is for people who don't really
know a band and with such a compilation of hits they shall be
forced to like this band. But what about those who are listening to
a band for many years and who have all their CDs already? What
shall they do with a 'Best of'?
For the 20th anniversary we didn't want to make a CD for those who
didn't care about Lacrimosa in the past, we made a CD for those
whom we have to thank for this anniversary: you, our audience!
"And since we've been asked by you many times if we could
finally release those compositions that we didn't include to
regular albums, we now meet your wishes and present 16 unreleased
and 2 brand new tracks on 'Schattenspiel'! But, some may ask now,
what shall we do with left-over songs? At Lacrimosa there is no
class society between the songs, because our aim is not to write
hits, our aim is to express feelings and feelings are relative. If
we didn't release a song at its time there was always a reason for
it. An example: on 'Schattenspiel' (= shadow play) there are
compositions which were as important to the development of
Lacrimosa as supporting pillars in the house of our art and we
couldn't just pull them out of this building back in those
days.
"In the course of the years we kept on building and those parts
of the house are self-supporting nowadays. Today we can tear out
those pillars without everything collapsing! Thus every title on
'Schattenspiel' has its own history and in the booklet of the CD I
write about all those stories and explain the relevance for
Lacrimosa of each title. With this in mind we wish you exciting and
moving moments with the music that in the past 20 years we have
played in the shadow!"
In November 1990 the Swiss music scene started to get curious
about Tilo Wolff's Project LACRIMOSA as his music in form of a tape
"Clamor" reached the people of the underground scene. This
melancholic music filled with classical elements, surrounding
poetic lyrics and topped by an emotional voice was something which
fascinated many and quickly a scene was raising up, which was
nearly already forgotten.
For his first release, the LP "Angst", Tilo Wolff found his own
label HALL OF SERMON for giving LACRIMOSA the entire artistical
freedom. The music of LACRIMOSA was already that time developing
from album to album without adapting any other music styles or
denying it's roots. Through this progressive development, LACRIMOSA
was challenging the tolerance of a widespread audience in the
diverse facets of music-lovers around the world.
LACRIMOSA's music had been coloured by several guest musicians, but
in the beginning of 1994, Anne Nurmi joined the former soloproject
to become a permanent member. Anne Nurmi, who was the keyboarder,
singer and one of the grounders of the Finnish band TWO WITHCES,
was setting new musical accents with her singing and composing.
The following releases were managing to combine the roughness of
Metal and Gothic Rock, without loosing the most obvious love for
classical music. With this revolutionary sound, LACRIMOSA was
pioneer and obstetrician for music styles like Gothic Metal and
Symphonic Metal, which both became a huge trend!
After the collaboration with the world-wide known LONDON SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, top 20 positions in the German and Polish music-charts,
sold-out shows in Europe, Middle- and South America, on May the 2
nd 2005, just on time for their 15 th
anniversary, the new studio album “Lichtgestalt” (luminous
figure) is going to be released!
With its musical variety, its full expression and its sympathetic
production this masterpiece is going to set new standards and
highlights a remarkable career!