The special, unique, Unwiderbringliche on this album is not that this was the first real German-German co-production of DDR-monopoly Labels AMIGA with the West German ARIOLA, is not that SILLY with this panel underlined its outstanding position in the East German music scene once again It is not that SILLY handed in with this plate probably the best production in the history of East German rock, is not that SILLY with this record at the same time also climbed the zenith of her creative work, but the fact is that no other production of a GDR -Künstlers could even remotely implement the grueling feeling jumble adequately in melody and lyrics in 1989, who had attacked at that time an entire generation in the GDR. February, published in February 1989, more than half a year before the dramatic events at the Hungarian-Austrian border, or in the West German Embassy in Prague, such unplanned snapshot of a country in agony, the farewell to the GDR, on a Failed social experiment, a musically and lyrically brilliant successful description of stagnation and hopelessness, of disappointment and frustration, of hypocrisy and opportunism, of resignation and rebellion, of the inner emigration. Who really wants to know as West German, as the youth of the GDR has felt in 1989, which has to this album, so most of all listen to the lyrics. Because for February could SILLY renounce the too elaborate encoding social criticism in linguistic images, so that today, almost 20 months after the date of this plate, amazed at how relatively openly and clearly are the lyrics to February, but also how desperate, since February transported in word and sound a tragic fundamental feeling of many young East Germans who actually felt as home, the GDR, but furious and angry were that a squad of unworldly old people had their homes and their lives ruined hopeless, the back and Torn had to escape between the desire of sadness and hypocrisy, yet were afraid of having to give up the familiar environment, friends, family. Like no other song on the album to dive with "lost one child" in this sense of inner conflict a. Even the title "SOS", "all against one" and "Everything is better" astonishment today in terms of their more or less unencrypted criticism of conditions and the army in East Germany of 1989. That is all the more important, because SILLY, AMIGA and ARIOLA were actually trying to think overall German, so to write texts that even West German listeners could relate to. But in February not only impresses with its texts, but also and especially by excellent compositions, beautiful melodic ideas and the Silly, but it is not for the majority of East German bands so typical, careful arrangement. The ballad "Over their thaw the ice", which reported the suicide of a young woman, so produced today goosebumps, which is due primarily but also the up to now unmatched vocal level of Tamara Danz. Who enjoys attention and intense in February, will be able to appreciate all the loss that has caused the death of this great woman and an artist for the German music.
