Style: Minimal wave / Wave / Cold Wave
When the precursor of Twice a Man, Cosmic Overdose, was performing the frst concerts in Sweden in the end of the 70´s with rhythm box, synthesizers and weird sounding guitar the journalists tagged the music "cold wave". We had the opposite view, as we were run by passion, anger, melancholy…
As then, we now live in dark times; terror, corruption, war, greed… we still have to hunt down inner and outer demons, to deal with the dark sides of life and society, to activate a rebellion against what is fundamentally wrong. Music without darkness is not possible. The Warm Wave bands all have this in common. There is a mutual understanding that i feel is intuitive. The Warm Wave concept is powered by rebellion and passion, a refusal to adapt to an individualistic social climate. We find answers in empathy, solidarity, equality and visions that other ways of living is possible.
“We believe in colors of the rainbow and we fnd comfort in the heart of darkness. We believe the heart to be red and rebellious and that it stings and itches when the world is breaking apart.” During two weekends in Sweden in May and November 2015 the Warm Wave Concerts took place. Bands that participated were Vólkova, Keluar, Alvar, Red Mecca, Schonwald, White Birches and Twice a Man. The concerts were amazing! All bands are different, with their own expressions, but there are plenty of originality, beauty and love to share.
CD1:
01 Absolute Body Control - Take a deep Breath 02 Peine Perdue - Descente 03 Balvanera - Dialectica Paralizada 04 Winter Severity Index - Inconstant Stay 05 Jenn Vix – Let Me In 06 Hante - Falling from Grace 07 Yus Yus - Proleter 08 Jenny Eve & Dan Söderqvist ( Twice a Man ) - Immersion ( From the Album The Monastery ) 09 Alvar - The very witching time of night 10 Schonwald - Gemini 11 Tiers - Vignette 12 Adam Berces - Hohullám 13 Vólkova - Come and See 14 Die Lust! Feat Neue K - Viaje Literario 15 Dark Places Kult - White Bone 16 Pozhar - Cold 17 Mad Masks – Sélenite
CD2:
01 Twice a Man - Power of your Dreams 02 Red Mecca - Mistaken 03 White Birches - Rid the Numbness 04 Animaux Surround - Not So Quiet 05 Inhalt - Black Sun ( Live in L.A ) 06 Alles - Nie Przeidziemy Do Historii 07 Diktatur - Things that they didn мt teach us 08 Rational Romantic – Gute Haltung Schöner Gang 09 Equinoxious - La Mujer de Plastico 10 Vile-Oblique - Blossom 11 My Great Blue Cadillac - Bdp 12 Drift - Mirage 13 Kriistal Ann - Distant Icon 14 Novva Falla - Ueito 15 Unidentified Man - Outcast 16 Lola Kumtus - The Art of Avoidance 17 Kord Featuring Annie - Two Thoughts 18 Spettro Family - Almost Human