Track list:

1. Decomposition Dance
2. Horla
3. Using Drugs
4. Are My Dreams Real?
5. Allein
6. Gespensterliebe
7. Der Garten Der Geister
8. Stern
9. Chaos Bath
10. My Cell
11. Paint A Rose
12. Cut The Strings


The Beautiful Disease have been founded in 1995. Their first album has been released in May 1999. They come from Mainz/Germany and the members are: Chris Goellnitz:
vocals; Stanley Carr: synthesizers, electronic percussion;
Michael Schaffer: guitars. The lyrics are in english and german. Now this is their 4th full-length studio album.

You maybe have to hear it more than once or twice to get into it, but if you've at least landed in the bright shimmering universe of The Beautiful Disease, you will find it very fascinating. Unlike most (young) bands they found their own unmistakeable style of music and kept it without getting boring or stucked in always the same idea. They are very experimental and playful, but never loose the "red thread" that puts it all together. Or like Chris Goellnitz said in an interview:"Our songs are like entering a strange house with many different rooms in it."
Some compare them with Legendary Pink Dots (without the really freaky moments), I'd rather compare them with Love, just for the sometimes rather surrealistic and weird lyrics and the delicate sounds, but there's even more, sometimes it seems that you just can't describe the music they make.
Feelings are very important (if you're able, you should rather "feel" the music than listen to it). Every song forms it's own dreamy landscape: some are very fragile, drifting, romantic like "Horla", "Paint A Rose", or the very hypnotising "Cut The Strings", others are more powerful like the impressive "Allein". Some have very catchy tunes like "Decomposition Dance", "Chaos Bath", or "My Cell", also very interesting are the psychic nightmare "Using Drugs"/"Are My Dreams Real?" and the musical journey that is "Gespensterliebe"/"Der Garten Der Geister".
All songs are carried out very well with the varied, beautiful, uncompareable,, charismatic, sometimes cynical voice of Chris Goellnitz.
Listen to the beauty of the music and try to find the disease in it!!!!

You won't find this album in your local record shop (if not living in germany), but as it is their first album released on a record label and not only available through their homepage or on concerts, it will not be too hard to get it. Try out the following internet addresses:
www.musicnonstop.co.uk
www.fandangomusicshop.net
www.etage-music.de
www.beautifuldisease.com

You will find some downloads under www.unidentified-recordings.de

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