Darkwave Scrooge sings moralities about beauty and death.
Scrooge was in Africa, a hunter, traveling in a world without time. Now Scrooge has arrived. His sixth album is titled BLACK, and no, that’s not an exaggeration. In these songs the flowers no longer help, the adventures are silent and the ravens take over. “Rabensinfonie” is also the piece that gives SCHWARZ an anchor. Scrooge likes the indulgence, likes the gesture. And when the Berlin-based Swiss singer sings about death, the defining theme of this album, with a lot of pose in his voice, then it could be that there is a lot of staging involved. Death as a review, Dagobert as emcee.
However, the “Raven Symphony” radiates a coldness that reduces any idea of a show to absurdity: the guitar suggests doom, a church organ plays like in the three-??? episode of “Ghost Castle”, the drums give the danse macabre, darkwave Scrooge advises to listen very carefully to the ravens and look at them before the song ends with a chorus of death, timpani and trumpets. The title track is one of the many songs that Dagobert conceived as a dialogue. Between him and a person? Or his life? What stands out: It is the beauty that first takes his breath away, then his will, and finally his strength. To continue listening: NO BEAUTY (WITHOUT DANGER) from the EinOLLESSE NEW BUILDINGS.