End space

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End space
General information
Genre (s) Electronica , downtempo , ambient , world music , cold wave , neoclassic , new German death art
founding 1989
Website http://www.endraum.net
Current occupation
Hovi Miskovics
Roman Rütten
Guest musician
Vocals, bass
Yvon Million († 2001)
Dominique Oudiou
singing
 Laura Carleton
singing
 Lisa King
bass
 Torsten Steiger
Frank Mueller
Sascha Commercon
Steffen Schuchhard
Krzyszof Pieczarka
Mariam Khatlamajian
singing
 Agniezka Kornet

Endraum is a music project that was founded in 1989 by Hovi Miskovics and Roman Rütten in Frankfurt am Main . Together with bands like Goethe's Erben and Das Ich , they are seen in the specialist press as co-creators of a phase of departure in the dark wave scene in Germany in the late 1980s and as part of a movement that was then known as the New German Art of Death . In the mid-1990s, her style increasingly shifted from the originally neoclassical orientation towards ambient / electronica .

background

The group emerged from the predecessor band Crux Ansata , which released an album in 1989 in self-distribution. Although the roots of Endraum lie in the guitar-oriented post-punk and dark-wave environment of the 1980s and with bands like Joy Division , the music, for which Roman Rütten is primarily responsible, was mainly produced electronically from the start. Endraum tries to create a very "organic" overall sound through the attention to detail and the complexity of their compositions as well as the frequent use of natural sounding piano and string parts. Added to this are the German-language poems, which Hovi Miskovics spoke mostly calmly and with concentration, which attracted attention through puns and references to surrealism . Miskovics also takes care of the visual appearance of Endraum with his pictures, which are also reminiscent of surrealism and partly of cubism , primarily through the design of the CD artwork. Numerous guest musicians, such as Laura Carleton from Sea of ​​Tranquility or Yvon Million and Dominique Oudiou from the French cold wave band Neutral Project , were also involved in several albums .

To explain the name of the project Endraum:

“ Endraum stood for an idea that tried to trace everything back to its origin - to the innermost feeling. A room at the end that never reveals its exit. It's about the inner space in the human being. We try to represent the unconscious. It is the processing of dreams, music and painting. "

In contrast to Goethe's heirs or Das Ich , Endraum's big (commercial) breakthrough was not achieved at the time. Concerts take place relatively seldom, but they are spread all over the world (Germany, Italy, Russia, Greece, Poland, Belgium), occasionally with a bassist as a guest musician. Unlike many of the electronically oriented bands, Endraum play completely live. Only the rhythms often came from the DAT .

Endraum produced a special soundtrack for the two-part ARD documentary "Hitler's Deputy - Rise and Fall of Rudolf Hess" (first broadcast on May 18, 2005). Further music productions for German television followed (“Zug um Zug” theme evening on arte, first broadcast on May 31, 2005; “The day when I heard my heart beat” by Hessischer Rundfunk, first broadcast on July 4, 2005).

After the first albums were released on the Danse Macabre label , Endraum founded their own label Weisser Herbst Produktion in 1994 , on which all of the group's other regular albums have been released. The label is now a sub-label of the Trisol Music Group and has also released for other bands such as The Frozen Autumn , End of Orgy and Sea of ​​Tranquility.

Discography

Demos / MCs

  • Fantastically Purposeless (1991, MC, re-released 1998)
  • Sehnsucht (1991, MC, re-released 1998)
  • The Rose Garden (1992, MC)

Albums

  • Times Light (1993)
  • In the Shimmering Night (1993)
  • Dawn (1994)
  • Appeal to the Muse (1994, EP)
  • Inwardness (1996)
  • The Blue Circle - Remixes (1996)
  • blauK (1996, recorded live on May 26, 1995, Festival Dahee, Paris)
  • Night Ray (1998)
  • Blue Breath (1999)
  • The Leanderkern (2001, DoCD)
  • Heart sound reflected on the roadside (2001)
  • Traumstaub (2004, CD with DVD)
  • Time threads (2008, limited edition of 300 pieces (hand-numbered))

Fan Club CDs

Endraum maintain close contact with their supporters via a mailing list and have regularly invited fans to fan club meetings in Frankfurt in recent years. Those present there had the opportunity to receive these CDs in special small editions of 10–20 copies. On them there is usually unpublished material.

  • Weimar 99 (2000, concert recording)
  • Der Leanderkern (2000, CD2 of the 2001 DoCD Der Leanderkern )
  • Crux Ansata - I Feel the Atmosphere (2001, 4-track recordings of the pre-Endraum project)
  • Herzklang (2001, instrumental version of the album Herzklang reflects on the roadside )
  • A Night in Dream Dust (2002, recording of a night in the studio, in memory of Yvon Million)
  • It's a moment (2003, import from Russia, recording of a concert in Moscow 2001)
  • Film music 2005 (2005, soundtracks to the TV productions “Hitler's Deputy” and “The Day When I Heard My Heart Beating”, see above)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e New Life Soundmagazine: Endraum - The journey into inwardness , issue no. 3/96, page 14, March 1996
  2. ↑ Biography of the band website: http://www.endraum.net/band.html
  3. ↑ New Life Soundmagazine: Endraum - The journey into inwardness , issue no. 3/96, page 15, March 1996
  4. ↑ Endraum at Discogs (English)
  5. ↑ Weisser Herbst at Discogs