The More You Live, The More You Love

Am Abend geht die Sonne unter Der Mond geht auf, ich werde munter Und die Nacht ruft laut nach mir Dann muss ich los, ich kann nicht schlafen Wir treffen uns in leeren Straßen Und die Nacht ist jung wie wir Heute ist Vollmond und die Nacht ruft nach mir Komm mit mir tanzen, und ich küss dich dafür Heute ist Vollmond Vollmond Der Zauber hält nur eine Nacht lang Wir tanzen in den Sonnenaufgang Und wir fliegen auf den Mond Heute ist Vollmond und die Nacht ruft nach mir Komm mit mir tanzen, und ich küss dich dafür Heute ist Vollmond Vollmond Heute ist Vollmond und die Nacht ruft nach mir Komm mit mir tanzen, und ich küss dich dafür Heute ist Vollmond Vollmond Ach, war das toll heute... ...nein!  Nee... ach Quatsch! Das hab ich doch nur so gesagt... ...ja..! Lyrics and music by: C. Karges   Translation of the German lyrics: In the evening the sun goes down The moon comes out, I come alive An...

A bit late but here it is again, my top 20 for August. 01 (--) White Lies - Big TV 02 (06) Mr. So & So - Truths, Lies & Half Lies 03 (--) Secret Sounds - Wasteland (remastered) 04 (03) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric 05 (06) Depeche Mode - Delta Machine 06 (04) Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy   07 (08) Editors - The Weight Of Your Love 08 (07) Hurts - Exile 09 (09) Dead Can Dance - In Concert   10 (--) A Cure For Siri - Methods Of Truth 1 1 (16) Paramore - Paramore 12 (10) Cosmograf - The Man Left In Space   13 (12) Schooltree - Rise 14 (01) Bastille - Bad Blood (the extended cut) 15 (02) Big Big Train - English Electric Part II 16 (--) The Boxer Rebellion - Promises  17 (17) Circle - The Middle 18 (14) Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut   19 (20) Phoenix - Bankrupt! 20 (13) Fiction - The Big Other    

The entries were close to zero in the past month. Too much work on my mind, and although I played enough music there was little time to write an entry. All time was fixed on work, and besides that on a huge article about New Wave music. It is scheduled for somewhere this month, when iO Pages will release their first special. So it meant diving into the eighties, listen to a lot of familiar music and also buying some stuff again. Unfortuantly Fonos no longer excists, so if you're interested in a band that was up till now still only available on vinyl it means you have to search for it and then digitize it. So with a bit of luck I discovered a compilation cd early July of the new wave band The Dutch. Soon I was able to collect all their vinyl and then I turned my focus on another early eighties new wave band Secret Sounds. Through Fonos I had bought their album Wasteland ages ago but when I scrolled their page on discogs.com I discovered that their singer/guitarist WilmerWolf was ...

01 (01) Bastille - Bad Blood (the extended cut) 02 (02) Big Big Train - English Electric Part II 03 (03) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric 04 (04) Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy 05 (06) Depeche Mode - Delta Machine 06 (07) Mr. So & So - Truths, Lies & Half Lies 07 (13) Hurts - Exile 08 (--) Editors - The Weight Of Your Love 09 (08) Dead Can Dance - In Concert 10 (10) Cosmograf - The Man Left In Space   11 (05) Anouk - Sad Singalong Songs 12 (--) Schooltree - Rise 13 (09) Fiction - The Big Other 14 (11) Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut 15 (15) Alison Moyet - The Minutes 16 (--) Paramore - Paramore 17 (12) Everything Everything - Arc 18 (20) Circle - The Middle 19 (14) Dutch Uncles - Out Of Touch In The Wild 20 (--) Phoenix - Bankrupt!

                      01. Bastille - Bad Blood (the extended cut) 02. Big Big Train - English Electric Part II 03. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - English Electric 04. Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy 05. Anouk - Sad Singalong Songs 06. Depeche Mode - Delta Machine 07. Mr. So & So - Truths, Lies & Half Lies 08. Dead Can Dance - In Concert 09. Fiction - The Big Other 10. Cosmograf - The Man Left In Space 11. Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut 12. Everything Everything - Arc 13. Hurts - Exile 14. Dutch Uncles - Out Of Touch In The Wild 15. Alison Moyet - The Minutes 16. Karl Bartos - Off The Record 17. Believe - The Warmest Sun In Winter 18. Big Country - The Journey 19. Queensrÿche - Frequency Unknown 20. Circle - The Middle

COSMOGRAF The Man Left In Space (private release) The joint venture with Festival Records took only one album, since with The Man Left In Space Robin Armstrong takes control in his own hands again, The results is a fourth concept album. Behind the story of a failed space mission the concept album explores the themes of aspiration, achievement, and the failures that our quest for success, sometimes brings. Maybe the themes are stodge, but the music turns it into a fine listening session. His companions on this journey are (well) known names from the prog scene: Nick D’Virgilio, Simon Rogers, Greg Spawton, Dave Meros, Lee Abraham, Steve Dunn, Matt Stevens and Dave Ware. Armstrong does all the vocals on this album and even his wife does some vocals on This Naked Endeavour. Specially the three longer tracks Aspire Achieve, the titletrack and When The Air Runs Out make clear that Armstrong, loves to play his guitarsolos in a Floydian way, which atmospherically deepen the s...

COSMOGRAF When Age Has Done Its Duty (FESTIVAL MUSIC 201107 / BERTUS) When Age Has Done Its Duty is already the thirth concept album of Robin Armstrong with Cosmograf. This time it is about the ordeal of the aging process, looking back on (family) live and dying. Armstrong is assisted by Bob Dalton (It Bites), Steve Thorne, Lee Abraham, Simon Rogers and Steve Dunn (both of Also Eden), Luke Machin (The Tangent), Huw Lloyd-jones (Unto Us) and Dave Ware. The sound produced by the gentlemen is rooted in the progressive rock of the seventies with trips to neo-prog, hard rock and metal with references to Genesis in On Which We Stand and Savatage in opener Into This World. When Age Has Done Its Duty is an album you can’t judge on a first listen. It needs several listening sessions to fathom the album, since Armstrong hasn’t walked the easiest way lyrically and musically. Maybe this is because of the attachements of sounds and confounding factors, which attracks you from the ...