Lacrimosa (band)
Lacrimosa (Latin, " the tears Kingdoms" ) is the name of a music project that was founded in 1990 by Swiss choice Tilo Wolff as a one-man company. The name refers to the Lacrimosa of Mozart's Requiem.
History
In 1990 the first demo tape Clamor appeared (Latin for " cry "). Since Tilo Wolff thus could convince no record company he founded with Hall of Sermon his own record label and took the name Lacrimosa the first LP to fear. Since then, for as a band logo a harlequin the album cover.
Since 1994 also includes the Finnish Anne Nurmi, keyboardist and singer of the Finnish gothic rock band Two Witches, as a permanent member to Lacrimosa and controls since their own songs in Finnish and English at.
LACRIMOSA biggest chart success was the 1999 album Elodia. It reached # 12 in the German charts.
At the same time Tilo Wolff is working with the thrash metal band Kreator and controls the vocals for the song Endorama on the eponymous album at.
With their single The Morning After Lacrimosa was four weeks in the official singles chart in Germany, the highest placing was 50th
On 7 May 2010 Lacrimosa published to commemorate the 20th anniversary of a double album called shadow play, which to date includes 18 previously unreleased songs from the band's history.
Lacrimosa give out tours in Europe, Central and South America and worked for their albums with various renowned orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra ( Elodia ) and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (facade / echoes). Lacrimosa is a major export outside the German-speaking world and were in 2003 on the 9th place in the international charts.
Name
The name derives from the last stanza of the liturgical sequence Dies irae from the 12th century, a part of the Requiem. It says: " Lacrimosa dies illa ", in German: "Tears kingdom is the date " (Latin lacrima " tear"; lacrimosus, " tearful "). The most famous musical setting of this text can be found in Mozart 's last work, the Requiem ( K. 626 ).
Music style
The musical style of Lacrimosa is not incorporated into one category, as the band repeatedly experimented especially since Satura with new elements.
Clamor was the first demo tape of Lacrimosa, which originally had several titles, but could be purchased from lack of funds, only relatively short tapes. On the tape, of which 100 units were produced, there are only two tracks ( demo versions of soul in need and Requiem). In the demo version of soul in distress differs only a short melody at the beginning of the piece from the later album version.
The debut album anxiety are minimalist electronic sounds the preferred means of design by Tilo Wolff. Even on their second album loneliness and Satura such elements are sporadically be seen (eg in tears of longing, Part I and II).
These early works of Lacrimosa also be attributed to the New German Death Art, but Tilo Wolff distances thereof, as it may not be found or his music in this term.
After rock and metal -heavy electric guitar pieces were already heard on Satura, Lacrimosa developed their musical style on the fourth album Inferno further proof. In addition to English and Finnish texts that are presented by the Anne Nurmi found at Inferno and classic elements.
The next album silence contains the well-known title: Proud Heart and about a quarter hour, again strongly classical containing number entitled The road of time. This song includes extensive choral passages, detailed orchestral arrangements and a longer guitar solo.
Elodia is one of the most successful albums of Lacrimosa. The first title - the end of silence - quotes a motif taken from the final title of the previous album. Through this artifice Tilo Wolff reached almost a cyclic linkage of the albums. The Sanctus uses the full text of the liturgical Ordinary Mass, which is presented by the choir. Here, the boundaries between classical music and metal.
Facade is a concept album that rests on three pillars. The two Ecknummern facade ( 1st or 3rd movement ) are musically closely related. Facade (2nd set) is, in contrast, a peaceful haven in the middle of the album. Also worth mentioning is the number of dumb words on the Tilos vocals accompanied only by piano and a string quartet.
Echo starts with the purely classical piece Kyrie, again taken from the Ordinary Mass, which was composed for choir and orchestra. In echoes it comes to " explore the devotion to love the other in order to understand yourself, and how you can cheat with these things themselves. This is a often no longer present in the crucial moments. Was only to look to the inside follows the view to the outside. "
In light shape Tilo Wolff set to music a Bible text: The Song of love from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians. Here choir and orchestra are very present again.
Longing is the first album that Wolff has recorded in his own studio in Switzerland: " So when I sat at the piano, composed there, wrote and played, I've taken up directly if I liked something which My Studio I have. prepared for it, that I can record according to ad hoc. soon as I realized that just something good happens, I could immediately press and record on "Record". "
Revolution is the heaviest album to date by Lacrimosa. Play on the album, among others, Mille Petrozza of the band Kreator and Stefan Schwarzmann on Accept as a guest musician with the under painting the metal -heavy character. Thematically, Wolff is concerned less with the political, but a social revolution: "I think we have made us a society in which people and their real needs only play a minor role (...) We live in our routine, are pleased with the flat screen TV on the wall ( ...) and barely notice that it gives us deep into an emptiness that eats us secretly. "
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
- 2002: Vintage Classix (LP- Box)
- 2010: Shadow Play (Double Album)