There’s a dark side to each of us. At some point we are on the precipices of having to choose whether to embrace it. But what is it like being on the border?

Bipolar

Tragedy Gold from the forthcoming 4th album.

Tragedy Gold

5C˚

Burning skies iron lungs
Extinctions have begun
Deadlines pass no choices left
Inhaled in every breath
Wildfires rage endlessly
Diamonds falling into the sea
Silence is deafening
When no one hears the screams

All you hold close
Won’t be for very long
Like secret fears and exiles
Flooding at your door
The stadiums are hospitals
The empty boarded stores
Atrocities come easily
When nothings on the shelves

Now is the time for goodbyes

The rest of us the best of us
Made ignorant by force
Divided by sciences
Muted from discourse
The maligned hide from reality
The benign by narrow inquiry
Turning a blind eye

All we’ve learned
Soon will be gone
When waters rise and flow
The fields no longer grow
And no one to remember those
Who brought this upon themselves
They sold the world for a pittance
Of what she was really worth

Now is the time for goodbyes

If only one remains, no one digs their grave
If only one remains, no one digs their grave
When only one remains, no one digs their grave
When only one remains, no one digs their grave

Now is the time for goodbyes

5C˚ (2021)

Cover of the Track "The Masque" from the band "The Dark", originally released on the album "Chemical Warfare" by Fresh Records 1982

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/624589-The-Dark-Chemical-Warfare

Chemical Warfare

The Masque

The Masque - Cover

As I had some ghosts in my machines and in my life it took a while for me to create a new song.

Again, I've created the song within the sound aesthetics of 80s Electro/Synth-Pop.

The song lyrics came to me through the loss of a "relative".

I hadn't seen my father for some 35+ years. I made my peace with that non-existant relationship also a long time ago.
 
Then he happened to pass away, and all of a sudden this person I actually never knew literally haunted my life by all the worldly things that happen when people die (the last will, official administration, attorneys and so on)...
..it made me think of: If and how it is possible to leave or lose people and to what extent that really is irrevocable or ultimately.

I came to realize: No depature of or from anyone is as definitely as one may think (or wish)...

Ghosts

IM AFFEKT Herbolzheim Atlantis 26 - 6-1988 18 Remaining + To Know

Push/Button/Press performing live in studio on 88.5FM WMNF over the radio on 10/2/2019

Transfiguration (Live on WMNF)

Transfiguration (Live on WMNF 88.5FM)

I savour the salt of your tears
I lick your skin absent-mindedly
I feel the tension in you 
You want to leave but you don't dare
It's autumn today
It's autumn in your heart

The storm is roaring outside
Trees bend and split
Lightnings strike the sky
Rain showers flood your soul
You want to leave 

The crows take shelter under the roofs
They croak in fear
Because they feel death coming

The crows are staring at me
I sense excitement in them.
I want to leave, but I don't dare 
I don't know why, 
But my heart resists

The Crows

This song is about a character, who managed to break into the world they don’t belong in. They managed to lead a whole life and inspire other people to do things they’d always been afraid of. Love and rebel are an integral part of this journey

Do It

Sad Day (ft. IIIA)

I like my music. If you don´t, make your own music. I was always involved in the punk/wave/goth-scene since the early 80´s and so is my music. On the other hand I always loved electronic music, so that is another part of my musical development.

The Masque - Cover

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