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 Madsen:VERY loosely translated from their homepage:Madsen are: Sebastian Madsen (guitar, vocals), Johannes Madsen (guitar), Sascha Madsen (drums), Niko Maurier (bass) and Folkert Jahnke (organ). In 1993 Sebastian and Johannes founded the band Ganz Klar (punk) and when Niko joined in 1996 they called themselves Alices Gun (rock) Two years later they were Hoerstuatz (self termed "crossover"). Since the summer of 2004, however, the band has been called Madsen and makes Madsen-music. In the spring of 2005, the video for their first single, "Die Perfektion" was rotated fairly heavily on MTV - the beginning of a rockstar career for the gang. At the end of May their debut album, "Madsen" appeared and was generally well received by the media. After this, the band toured for months all across the country. For a band, life on tour isn't nearly as glamorous as one often portrays it in romantic rock star imaginings. 90 percent of it is waiting and hanging around. Sebastian used this "sick tour life" to write songs - permanent songs. In February and March of 2006, Madsen took these songs to the Ga-Ga Studio in Hamburg to record their second album, "Goodbye Logik". The music on "Goodbye Logik" sounded - to them- more polished than on their debut. "Madsen" was an album which had to be heard as a complete work. The "hits" were clear to listeners gradually. With the second album, the hits sprang towards the listener immediately: "Goodbye Logik", Ich rette die Welt", "Unzerbrechlich" - until, at some point, all eleven songs functioned as hits and "Goodbye Logik" as an album. "Goodbye Logik" is typical Madsen because the music is direct, pours into the musical center of one's brain, with no detours, because it's emotional without being "emo". Because the lyrics, in their concrete abstraction, tells more about life than the complete works of many other bands who, by the indie-police, are raised on a pedestal of coolness. Because, with his wrds, Sebastian Madsen doesn't express the forlorness and hope of simply one generation but those of all of mankind. They're not just a "product" so go put "Goodbye Logik" in your CD player to see if you agree with what is written here. -Mikki 4/07 More at: |
