Musical Influences.
"joy division" are the influence of "Endraum" - if anyone can really talk about influences. The musical career of both musicians was heavily influences by them to create a music which delves deep inside of you, wakes you and completely changes your idea of music.
The project E N D R A U M
After the group "crux ansata" dissolved, everything appeared to become quiet. But Roman and Hovi met up again to create something totally new - music with the spirit of Joy Division and melancholy of "Gustav Mahler" and the lyrics of "rimbaud". 1989 thought neither of them thought of creating a steady band or group. We dreamt of a sort of a multivisionary opera, within which the theatrical was equivalent to the pictures, lyrics and music - an Opera named "endraum". The first piece of music was called "der neid" (the envy) - an indictment of the musical changes taking place around us, a shout in a completely commercialised world in which feelings are pushed to last place. Endraum stood for an idea which tried to bring everything back to the beginning - to the innermost feelings, a room at the end which will never disclose its exit.
Releases
After "der Neid" was recorded, everything happened very fast. The Idea of an Opera changed to an idea of a musical story - "phantastisch zwecklos" von Heinrich Heine. Endraum became the name and in 1991 the first tape recording of Endraum - "phantastisch zwecklos" was created which was the first musical confrontation with depression, melancholy and absolute personal acceptance. In reality it was a search to become that, what Endraum now signify.
The concept
In the beginning of 1992 followed the second Endraum release, the tape "sehnsucht". None of us thought about recording labels or sales. Central was the need to realise the creativity within. "Sehnsucht" is a concept and from this moment was the name "endraum" also part of the concept. Endraum became a unit and it was from this moment that music, lyrics and images were to be fusioned into one. "Sehnsucht" is a story, more than that, more a wandering through "desire". "Sehnsucht" could, with hindsight, be seen as a personal revelation of two people. Important for us at that time was the fact that the work was never done individually but together. The lyrical ideas of Hovi were immediately translated - or maybe a better formulation is "assisted" - into music on Roman's Piano. Words are equal to Music are equal to Image. Endraum was a musical vision. Endraum had always their music or their creation as an answer to something seen which was missing in most music - feeling. It's simple to hide behind a cloak of superficiality, to talk of things which have never meant anything to ones' self. Music can only change when it creates a vision of that which currently occupies the artists.
The label
1992 Endraum began the first attempt to present themselves to a larger audience. Record labels were written to. From numerous offers a contract was signed with "danse macabre". Everything went very fast. A demo tape was recorded and then the first CD "zeitenlicht" - a story of a walk through "die mere dieser Zeit". "Zeitenlicht was intended to follow the conception of the second tape "sehnsucht". What the statements made are concerned, "Zeitenlicht" is more compressed, more direct. This is because for the first time Endraum had to produce as well as compose. This is important for Endraum because a producer could endanger the idea and effect of Endraum because everything we work upon is very emotional and spontaneous. A year later the second CD "in flimmernder Nacht" was released. On this CD visions are told which should combine to bring dream and reality together. A very important theme in our work because the dream cannot function without reality and reality becomes a very dull existence without a dream.
The new beginning
1993 was the year of the decision. "Danse Macabre" was extremely fixed on "me, myself, I" and Endraum was running dangerously close to being misinterpreted. In other words, the style for which "danse macabre" stood, was too simple, too plain, emotionless. What remained was the creation of our own record label with which we could tread our own path with like minded artists.
The group E N D R A U M
Images, lyrics and music are very strongly joined with momentary visions, emotions and extreme feelings. Endraum does not see itself or it's music as a courier for a particular message. Endraum is the feeling of life, Endraum is creativity, Endraum is melancholy. Endraum is colour, sound and space. Endraum is idealistic and therein lies the drive to continue ever on, never to transmit the feeling of being stationary because in life everything is changing, the environment changes. Only melancholy stays constant and an entrance to it must be created - this is Endraum.
The music
Endraums music can't be defined simply by definitions such as "melancholic", "romantic" or "darkened" because no single definition can bring that, which Endraum represents, to a point. The work of Endraum can be signified by a 3 dimensional picture in which the main function of the music can be seen to create a landscape of atmospheres and musical images. The lyrics capture a moment, describe it and make it real, almost touchable. The painting captures a thought and makes it visible. Endraum is a vision in which word, music and pictures operate parallel to another. Important is the feeling, the situation, the fraction of a second which suddenly comes to life.
The colour blue
Apart from the fact that blue plays and has played a very important role in the history of art, it is the only colour within which endraum can develop themselves. Blue stands for evolution, for something shortly before its opening. Blue is the colour within which light can be held without blinding and deceiving. Blue almost has the appearance of being eternal. Blue also contains the colours which deny hopelessness because blue is neither black nor white.
Regentanz
Endraum Lyrics
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schießt bilder in den sinn
dir durchfluten den körper
im vertrockneten land
schwerelos treibend
bildet sie rätsel im sand
im kreis
die durstigen finger tanzend
wie leidende wesen im wind
glasige augen
beobachten farbige bilder als
schein
die langsam vertrocknen im
stein
andere formen,
kein anderer sinn
der durstige körper seit ewiger
zeit
der atem der sonne
schießt bilder in den körper
hinein
sind es die wunden
die pochen im stummen,
quälenden takt
fünf perlen der hoffnung
glitzern im schatten des glücks
sie sind samen verborgen im
sand
die gebären krustiges blut
das bevölkert ein flußbett
im riesigen land
andere formen
kein anderer sinn
der durstige körper seit ewiger
zeit
The lyrics of "Regentanz" by Endraum paint a vivid picture of a desolate, dry landscape that is hot and dusty. The sun's breath shoots images into the mind, like a mirage in the desert. The images move through the body and the mind, creating a sense of weightlessness. The music itself is dreamlike and almost otherworldly, which adds to the sense of being transported somewhere else entirely.
The lyrics continue to describe the sensation of the body moving in circles, surrounded by dusty winds that carry the fingers of the singer like "suffering beings." The music itself seems to take on the feeling of an endless, hypnotic dance, which adds to the cyclical imagery of the text. The imagery continues, describing watery images that are slowly drying up in the heat, and a sense of thirst and need that seems pervasive throughout the song.
Overall, "Regentanz" is a meditation on the intense beauty and sadness that can be found in a desolate, empty landscape. The lyrics and music of the song create an almost trance-like atmosphere, which is both mesmerizing and haunting.
Line by Line Meaning
der atem der sonne
The breath of the sun
schießt bilder in den sinn
Shoots images into the mind
dir durchfluten den körper
Flooding through your body
im vertrockneten land
In the dried-up land
schwerelos treibend
Drifting weightlessly
bildet sie rätsel im sand
Forming puzzles in the sand
der nackte körper, drehend
The naked body, turning
im kreis
In circles
die durstigen finger tanzend
Dancing fingers thirstily
wie leidende wesen im wind
Like suffering beings in the wind
glasige augen
Glassy eyes
beobachten farbige bilder als
Watch colorful images as
schein
Illusion
die langsam vertrocknen im
That slowly wither away in
stein
Stone
andere formen,
Other forms,
kein anderer sinn
No other sense
der durstige körper seit ewiger
The thirsty body since eternity
zeit
Time
der atem der sonne
The breath of the sun
schießt bilder in den körper
Shoots images into the body
hinein
Inside
sind es die wunden
Are these the wounds
die pochen im stummen,
That throb in the silent,
quälenden takt
Tormenting rhythm
fünf perlen der hoffnung
Five pearls of hope
glitzern im schatten des glücks
Sparkle in the shadow of happiness
sie sind samen verborgen im
They are seeds hidden in the
sand
Sand
die gebären krustiges blut
That give birth to crusty blood
das bevölkert ein flußbett
That populates a riverbed
im riesigen land
In the vast land
andere formen
Other forms
kein anderer sinn
No other sense
der durstige körper seit ewiger
The thirsty body since eternity
zeit
Time
Contributed by Chase A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.