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
Snakeskin? 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!
Kerstin Doelle
