Flares

There are two bands called the Flares. The first is a young, aspiring band from germany, consisting of 5 guys, who teamed up randomly in summer of 2007 to achieve one goal: Free music from its natural corset based on chorus, verse and brigde ? let it simply float and happen. They don't want to affix the selfmade seal of stories, experiences or beliefs to anybody. Rather, their intention is that everybody should use his imagination to create the pictures inside his head. But in order to make this even happen, one precedent condition is essential: The ability to stir up feelings.

These emotions should subsequently initiate the motor of your brain to clear the way for spontaneous individually-designed images. The deput Ep ?levitation?, manages to carry this along perfectly and I was quite pleased that already the first track gave me the opportunity to plunge into a dreamworld, in which melancholia is gently watching over all aspects of life.

Walls of distorted guitars are peaking in a reciprocal force of flying sky high one moment and beeing in the depths of despair the next, always pushed foward, by an apparently inexorable promise to escape from dejection. However, before first views are getting clearer, love of life is refreshing once more, atrabiliousness is finding its way into the soul again, and this time, by all appearances, it can only be defeated by irony.

The tracks on levitation are affecting, moving and accompanying, they stand in between a cut and thrust of normality and living insanity, of bliss and dolor, trying to unify the laughing and crying eye. Although gloom and sadness could darken your life, you should always bear Victor Hugo's words in mind: ?Melancholia is the pleasure of being sad?.

The other band is an old American 50s and 60s doo-wop band from the United States. Part of the doo-wop and early rock n' roll top 40 movement, they are featured on the world famous soundtrack "Hairspray."