A CD with theater music from Apparat? That probably won't be a musical soundtrack or farce. No, the Berlin producer Sascha Ring has not put a comedy to music, but a performance of War and Peace. The war novel from 1869 by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoi previously formed the basis for various plays, films, songs and an opera by Sergei Prokofiev. The ten songs on this CD are not at all warlike, on
… the contrary. "This is the first album that doesn't hurt," Ring said in a press release, and it's understandable why. The drama is still close to the German, but the music is no longer depressing. Ring uses fewer beats than we are used to from him and a lot more traditional instruments. He exchanges the melancholic electronics for subtle ambient, drone and Yann Tiersen-like film music. Device keeps moving. (JE)more
