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 SNAKESKIN "Canta'Tronic"
1990 TILO WOLFF
established the band LACRIMOSA, nowadays one of the most successful and
respected acts of the alternativ music-scene worldwide! 2004 he established
SNAKESIN? But why?
On his website he writes: "The center and the main
idea of LACRIMOSA is, that every composition is based on a poetry. This concept
was exactly the right thing at that time and still is the right thing to this
day! And so that nothing will change this in future, I had to create a new
frame for compositions which aren't the result of the inspiration matured from
the word but tell a story on their own. So SNAKESKIN was born. The second skin.
This second skin represents another surface now, just like SNAKESKIN's musical
surface - the arrangement and production - is different from LACRIMOSA's. But
underneath this skin, there is the same heart beating."
And really, on
the second SNAKESKIN album with the interesting and conceptional title
"Canta'Tronic", a relationship with LACRIMOSA can't be denied and still, it
sounds so different, that it would hardly match the album history of
LACRIMOSA.
In the center there is the concept which the title already
names: sung electronic. Already on the debut the occasionally strongly
alienated voice which reminded of the cries of wild animals stood in the
foreground. Here, Wolff still goes a step further: with his this time nearly
un-alienated and emotional voice he draws partly very touching and partly
surprisingly catchy melodies over the mainly rhythmical compositions which
creats a immense tension. But not enaugh, because this tension finds her
perfection in the connection of hard electric beats with the unpronounceably
versatile voice of KERSTIN DOELLE, the great opera singer, which already
convinced the audience with enthusiasm as the representative of Germany at the
concerts on the occasion of the EU expansion back in 2004! Here worlds collide
and a new music arises: Canta'Tronic!
Andreas Wengler
 About the history of the Cantadoras and
Cantadoros
If one would ask a Cantadoro when everything actually
started, one would get the answer: "Sometime in front of an eternity… but
Orpheus was one of us and Miriam from the Bible. Oh yes, Saint Franziskus also,
didn't he compose this wonderful Canticum Solis?" Fado-singers and Druids also
belong to them. But who is a Cantadoro? So much is certain, it isn't learnable
if this certain fire doesn't burn in the voice, in the soul! The Spanish
express it as follows: a Cantadoro is somebody who is holding his own torn and
bleeding heart in his hands, singing about this pain to keep him and this pain
alive. He is singing for love and at the same time embodies it himself. A deep
spirituality and the believe in the determination to sing are strong parts of
him. A Cantadoro stands for the power and high intuition. The "Canto el hondo"
- "the chant of the wolf" is the symbol for it.
Kerstin
Doelle
Soundsamples from "Canta'Tronic":
Etterna - 0:34
Stone Cold Hands - 1:15
Bite Me - 0:50
La Force - 1:04
The Eternal - 1:59
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Word & Music by Tilo Wolff,
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