Lamb 2.0

It must have a masochistic Psycho-trip in a kind of reality-consuming fever-fantasy that takes you to the idea of ​​"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" completely re-record at a time. They did it - respect! It was the brainchild of producer and studio owner Mark Hornsby to interpret the wicked Genesis concept plant new. And this mammoth task has been to heart Angel awareness of Spock's Beard drummer / singer Nick D'Virgilio, who grew up practically in his own words with the Genesis classics in the ear. This may also explain why NDV is a crazy type ...

... Because the original double album (or -Vierfachalbum to record times!) Is not to be classed easily digestible foods now. Musically had Genesis anno 1974 is experimenting with sounds that only a so glowing ears. And the story of Peter Gabriel draws a formal shoes off. One and a half hours, follow the protagonist Rael, a geratenen on the straight and narrow, delirious, presumably torn from a split personality, half-Puerto Rican youths in his surreal ghost trip with self-discovery (or self-dissolution?) By a delusional drawn, imaginary New York underworld full inhospitable parallel Places with misanthropic, semi-mythological grotesque creatures.

Got it? No? no problem. For years I try itself, this concept album with all its satirical swipes at sex, commercialism and what not completely understand. It says: stay strong or have come to the psychiatrist! With Nick D'Virgilio probably comes too late to help. I think so, at least, when I look at the photos in the booklet of the new recording. The line-up leads to a guy who was in charge of "make-up and Hair" - that says it all. But what needs to be master of ceremonies Gabriel who then purely caught all at once in order to bring this wrong trip on paper? I want it do not know, because it is certainly not recommended for imitation. But the result is simply brilliant.

And that is the tribute, 34 years after "The Lamb" was coming to life! In his own way, of course! What do I expect really - the original album is already on the shelves, and 'better' it will not be. Once something is turned inside out, the intolerant critics longs the original; and if it is replayed faithfully, the common Purist grieves if the forfeited previous magic an unsurpassable presentation. You ought to know what Nick D'have pressed Virgilio and a whole bunch of local musical talent from Nashville space where evil plagiarism has been added to the grooves.

Rewiring Genesis offers a balance between high art to reproduce a number of technically and sonically damn difficult passages faithfully and on the other side with a lot of courage and own handwriting to turn the magnum opus of the Gabriel era really sleep through the mincer. Unbelievable but true: There are no synthesizers throughout the album! In their place is a lively band from orchestral strings and brass of the entire, great Tony Banks parts adopts. Something is, and crazy as it sounds!

Even the enchanting melody of the opener "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is building in the new version shallow bombast with a concerted Chamber Orchestra-use on - striking brass accents and a nervous strings crescendo, which replaces the faithful sounding the distinctive original piano-32th , Wonderful how D'Virgilio and company get a completely timeless splendor the elderly melodies! An undertone of shuttling back and forth repeatedly between jazz and classical music. A heavily synthesizer-embossed original as "Riding The Scree" is a piece of big band jazz with virtuoso clarinet solo and brummeligem trombone Groove. And who would have expected in the middle of "The Colony Of Slippermen" with an accordion solo?

But the bird shoot two pieces of the first CD from "The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging" will take a shallow military march of vowels "Hmm, hmm" 's, "Boum, boum"' s and "Dab as-daah" 's and a portion accompanied bongos. And the crazed "Counting Out Time", the piece about Rael's "first romantic encounter," as Peter Gabriel calls it, this musically gifted Jester force the original slapstick Sounds replaced by a quietschvergnügten Dixieland! Yeah, right ... right after the text line "Honey get hip! It's time to unzip, to unzip zip, zip-a-zip, zip-a-zip. Whippee "And a few bars before the wonderful pretty paraphrasing a failed sexual act"! I got unexpected distress from my mistress. "

Here and there have D'Virgilio & Co. but also plenty of 'decency' to abide by the original, such as the tender-magical vibe of "Carpet Crawlers". "Lilywhite Lilith" rocks, and how! This must also be. The template amazing hearing it was with "The Waiting Room", a real wetland expressionistic sound Querulanz. It squeaks and rattles and thunders and fiepst! It must have been a challenge to reconstruct this mess! Therefore Jimmy Blankenship collection held in the credits - for "Experiments with foreign sounds". The point at which the band uses - one of my favorite passages of rhythmic Genesis at all - is a great opportunity for Nick D'Virgilio, to prove his skills. He also finds: "The way Phil Collins plays around the beat and then completely Call it changes towards the end is just great in my opinion, and I needed to be as close as possible to the original," he writes on his website.

Finally NDV has also become the appropriate practice in Spock's Beard a really good singer. Several synthetically distorted the original Gabriel passages he sings clearly and effectively free; by the singing is very present and superficially. And he's doing just fine - shows how changeable is his voice. One of the many highlights is the "Broadway Melody Of 1974", a truly wonderful 'Melody', for which he has expressive and highly sing and whisper low. In "The Lamia" he gets spanked female vocal support of one of the ghouls!

After more than one and a half hours "Lamb" I am thrilled and amazed - amazed if the musical class of this new interpretation and the incredible detail work famoser musicians, and amazed at how expressive the trumpets, violas and clarinets interpret these immortal melodies. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - this masterpiece was revolutionary in 1974! The remake 34 years later is bold, daring, great. Not just any cover. But "Lamb 2.0" ...

... And an impetus for the 'generation Spock's Beard', to take care of this masterpiece, if not already done. For me it was a great opportunity to immerse yourself after a long break back into the now proven timeless masterpiece that was composed many years before the author of these lines has ever seen the light of the music world. I'll always be rewarded by some of the coolest rhymes in rock history. My favorite place is and remains Rael threatening castration in "A Visit To The Doctor", "Doctor Dyper, reformed sniper - he'll whip off your windscreenwiper". And at some point I have also out what the lamb has to look at the Broadway ...