RPWL to Release New Album Wanted April
1st in
North America on Gentle Art of Music/E1
Artwork and Track Listing Revealed
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The band that knew too
much...
Germany's outstanding art
rock act was recently confronted with a rather difficult question: how do you
follow up a both epic as well as celebrated album as was the Nietzsche-themed
Beyond Man and Time? Here's the answer: you tackle the really,
really huge topic on your new record Wanted - the ultimate
liberation of the spirit.
Wanted will be released in North America on
April 1st via Gentle Art of Music/E1.
But... How does an idea like
that spring to the minds of an art rock band in the first place?
RPWL tell of the hero of two worlds,
Giuseppe Garibaldi who, being a tremendous admirer of the Greek antiquity
became aware of a scroll of Plato's in which he analyzes the work of
Hippocrates. It can be read in Garibaldi's diaries that Hippocrates had in
fact found the formula for a medicine that leads the spirit into a real and
absolute world, free of all illusion and invisible ghost worlds. The
question, however, that inevitable arises at that point is the following: is
the human race ready for what Plato called the "gift of absolute
freedom?"
It lies in the artistic
fearlessness of RPWL that the band is not afraid of transferring that
complex question to the world of today: is modern man, being the evolutionary
creature that he is, ready for absolute freedom? To explore that, these
Bavarians have established a back-story full of fantasy. In it RPWL
and their friends aim at granting the world access to the product of the
secret formula - disguised as a homeopathic drug against mental fatigue that
goes by the name of "Veritas Forte." Considering the true intention
of the operation the fact that the wrath of the churches of the world
religions is unleashed at the band rather sooner than later is understood.
And so, consequently, they are forced to go underground. That, however, is
where RPWL continues to organize ultimate liberation from all
oppression through the machineries of illusion run by religions and sects. RPWL
are Wanted.
The action of Wanted
starts several days before the great day: Plato's Day. The enemy's fear is
ever growing, as, after all nobody knows at what point the mirages and
illusions are eradicated from people's minds once and for all. In the course
of the record RPWL shift through ten varied songs full of breathtaking
soundscapes and tell a compelling story of courage, doubt, bravery, the
unconditional desire to never give in and, ultimately, the belief in what is
right.
By making a philosophy that
is new and to a degree unique the subject of the concept of Wanted,
RPWL bring the principle of the concept album to a new level. That is
how this gigantic piece of art evolves into a true explosion of creativity.
Furthermore the intellectual firepower of the content is in every way matched
by the artistic and emotional depth of the music. More than ever a sharp
artistic edge and the hunger for discovery is what drives this record
forward. Despite more than fifteen years in the scene, Yogi Lang (vocals,
keyboard), Kalle Wallner (guitar), Marc Turiaux (drums), Markus Jehle
(keyboard, piano) and Werner Taus (bass) brilliantly avoid playing it safe.
The masterpiece that is Wanted
will also be released as double vinyl as well as a limited edition in
additional 5.1-surround-sound. Yes, Wanted is a gamble - and
boy does that gamble pay off.
Wanted Track Listing
01. Revelation
02. Swords And Guns
03. A Short Cut Line
04. Wanted
05. Hide And Seek
06. Disbelief
07. Misguided Thought
08. Perfect Day
09. The Attack
10. A New Dawn
Tour Dates:
04 Apr NL-Zoetermeer
05 Apr D-Oberhausen
06 Apr B-Verviers
07 Apr D-Bremen
09 Apr D-Hamburg
10 Apr D-Berlin
11 Apr D-Soest
12 Apr D-Hannover-Isernhagen
13 Apr NL-Leeuwarden
15 Apr D-Stuttgart
16 Apr AUT-Landeck
17 Apr CH-Pratteln
18 Apr F-Nancy
19 Apr D-Aschaffenburg
20 Apr D-Reichenbach
21 Apr D-Freising
23 Apr AUT-Vienna
24 Apr PL-Piekary Slaskie
25 Apr PL-Warschau
26 Apr PL-Poznan
27 Apr PL-Bydgoscz
to be continued...
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