PHARAOHS TRAVEL Pharaoh's musical journey - "PYRAMID BLUE" - The new CD of the Trio 1-A DUSSELDORF, is a musical journey with side trips to India. No wonder then that this music sounds like something from another world.
As beguiling, if not intoxicating the listener CD "PYRAMID BLUE" feel when he has opened for the first time. Only after he made the cosmos of sound reappears, he will wonder how such a free-floating play can take place. Specifically, some things appear fairly slanted: The guitar is struck unadorned, the rhythm bleeds in vagueness, the song meanders with Vokalismen there. These parts make enchanting collages. The songs have titles like "PYRAMID BLUE" - "FLY Pharaoh" - "PHARAOHS TRAVEL" or "BOSSA NOVA BLADDY. Together, they act like a total composition. Each number stands for itself, has a beginning and end, what is the steady flow of the music amazing. Questions, questions come to mind. How to Play the Nils Kristiansen Guitar, he also has a sitar? In which bar Steffen proposes Domnisch the drums? What languages sings Victoria Wehrmeister? Is it at the beginning of Japanese, Polish or Russian, and then finally, Serbo-Croatian? During a conversation in Nils'Düsseldorfer Studio there are a few answers. GUITAR from the dump - the three musicians sit on a sofa under a - pyramid blue - Image. A sitar he does not dare to touch even says Nils Kristiansen. From the studio corner, he gets more guitars. One of them coming from the dump in Antwerp. And he shows how he occasionally takes down all the strings, stringed instrument, the arbitrary new. Victoria sings "sentences and words that arise in this way." Not verse and chorus, as in previous bands, this was a limitation. "When I sing, it makes this moment, this surprise." She does not sing in a language to. "I've lived in Mexico, now maybe my childhood language comes to the fore," says Victoria. Perhaps they also impressed Arabic music, their songs did not understand it. Steffen worked the rhythm. "I was developing concepts such as twelve-waves," - "that's difficult if you do not work in 4 / 4 time." Again and again the name of Thomas thinks "(1952-2002). His CD is dedicated. The last track is called "FAREWELL THOMAS. Victoria can resonate with the very soft as "Thomasch. The co-founder of 1-A DUSSELDORF was the leading figure of La DUSSELDORF and NEW. About the charismatic personality, the three remaining musicians say almost simultaneously: "He was just there sometimes."
UWE Witsch Rheinische Post 6 / 2004