And The Golden Choir
Another Half Life
When did gospel music become part of indierock music? Came it along with SPIRITUALIZED (,Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space") BLURs ,Tender" or with the FLEET FLOXES? Whatever - musician and producer TOBIAS SIEBERT from Berlin created with his first affair of heart called AND THE GOLDEN CHOIR his release ,Another Half Life", which is a great gospel record for history. And this in a traditional city like Berlin where bass drum sounds and snare tunes rule the resident clubs. AND THE GOLDEN CHOIR is religion - the religion of music. This is te transformation of harmony and a free fall into a angelic choir made of universe and cosmos. Voices full of fear fly over all of us. Through all of us. A choir rises nihilistic noises from the end of the city, at the end of the story and at the end of a song. Why just cant someone turn this record? TOBIAS SIEBERT plays his live playbacks with choirs, soft hammering pianoparts, bass, drums, guitars and string players on a record player. Not only his own music is on this records. You will find there also the ghosts from his past. So he is able to create a own community of souls within 33 1/3 turns per minute, which symbolizes his own hallucinated music community. Our personalities only live by the ghost of the choir and you need technical tools to catch them. Every tone of his music makes your skin vibrating and turns your room into a spaceship. All the imagination of the human sticks in this songs: the memories of the very beginning of our life story and the wish to remember this till the end. KATE BUSH, SYD BARRETT, ANTONY HEGARTY, CURTIS MAYFIELD or RICHARD ASHCROFT: they all are cut from the same cloth. The swinging body feigns the gate to the world. The own voice is the vibrato of an unknown time, that lights the space of the day dream. there are bright lights all over the place. "Another Half Life" is a big and magic moment that's the centre of everyday's life. This is what for the Christians made up the sunday and also the choir singing and the organ playing - "The spirit in the sky" is all around. So let's rest a moment in this great music. And let's rest in a moment of eternity. The record player is running, the needle works - let's get it started. What are we waiting for?