Elation Elegance Exaltation
Studio-Album – Idee des Nordens
Studio-Album
Released: 1995
Track list
- One man's evil can become the curse of all
- Blödraiser
- Gold
- Fingercode
- Wunder
- Flut
- Supreme
- Mond
- Jasmin & Rosen
- White Stains
Musical Experiments with Sound »Magick«
Their music is as mysterious as mathematics, as empirical as poetry, as vague as sorrow and just as depending on personal use as it is love, thus Idee des Nordens described their debut album.
This music is addictive, with each listening, one discovers more dimensions to it. Tip for listening in: “Gold” and “One Man’s Evil”.
ELATION
ELEGANCE
EXALTATION
| I | DEE DES NORDENS is part of the Hamburg-based STORA community and deals with the popular sides of music. STORA is devoted to the discovery of personal soundstructures, and IDEE DES NORDENS takes the risk to scrutinize the overall suitability of this experiment. |
| D | evelopments yet to come are given the prospects for on “Elation Elegance Exaltation”, as well as the last years in the history of music are recapitulated. The quality of music material is independent of its context and its stylistic classification. IDEE DES NORDENS discovered the power of music in the micro-structure of its sounds. |
| E | asy Listening of its very own kind, catchy melodies and infectious rhythms, combined with unusual sounds which come from totally different musical or acoustic contexts. Just as the western world is, the music of IDEE DES NORDENS is a whole big supermarket. In joyful carefreeness IDEE DES NORDENS mix the most different material so complex, that it’s only adequate to call it polyphone pop. |
| E | ven more unusual it might appear that there’s no definite separation into melody and harmony in the music of IDEE DES NORDENS. In other words: Everything’s in the foreground, and if you’re not giving an ear to it, the things you ignored before will suddenly be a real surprise to you. Pleasure on several levels. This is just appropriate for a society in which everything and all clots into information. |
| “Who understands to play with musical material of such different kind as sovereign as IDEE DES NORDENS do, has to be of mercuric carefreeness.” (G. Schalkalwis/STORA) | |
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Musical depth and relaxing sounds in their purest. Reveals new dimensions with each listening.
Schellackgeschrei
Besides RESIDENT-like trickiness and COIL-like sound complexity, there's also elements of modern classical music, of runic apocalyptic folk, or of modest Trance music. ... Elation-Elegance-Exaltation as a debut album remains unequalled and revolutionary.
Zillo
Wonderful melodic and dreamy passages, which make each Dark Wave or Neofolk band go green with envy ... the album of the year
Studio-Album
Released: 1995
Track list
- One man's evil can become the curse of all
- Blödraiser
- Gold
- Fingercode
- Wunder
- Flut
- Supreme
- Mond
- Jasmin & Rosen
- White Stains
Chrom Records Artists
- Deine Lakaien
- Veljanov
- Ernst Horn
- Helium Vola
- Helga Pogatschar
- Silence
- Estampie
- QNTAL (Early Works)
- Niowt
- Das Holz
- Distain!
- Oliver Dean
- Stendal Blast
- Run Run Vanguard
- Love is Colder than Death
- Inside
- The Eternal Afflict
- Kirchohmfeld
- Fairies Fortune
- Idee des Nordens
- Soul in Isolation
- Cyan kills E.Coli
- Chrom Compilations