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Dada ante portas | The Theory Of Everything
Dada ante portas liefern einen Kandidaten für das „frischeste Frühlingsalbum 2008“ ab. Auf „The Theory Of Everything“ wimmelt es von leichter, erquickender Rock-Musik. Die Luzerner Band hat wieder eine Menge neuer Ideen aus dem Ärmel geschüttelt.
Von Stephan Sigg.
Quelle: dada-ante-portas.com
Zwei Jahre nach dem letzten Album „Superbixen“ sind Dada ante portas wieder in aller Munde. Kaum zu glauben, dass es sich bei „The Theory Of Everything“ bereits um das fünfte Studioalbum der Dadas handelt. Denn auch nach einigen Jahren Band-Karriere auf dem Buckel sind ihnen die Ideen nicht ausgegangen. Ihre neue Platte wirkt überraschend erfrischend und man hätte sich keinen besseren Veröffentlichungstermin aussuchen können. „The Theory Of Everything“ scheint wie für den Frühling und die ersten sonnigen Tagen gemacht worden zu sein.
Als mitreissend zeigt sich schon der Opener „I just wanna dance“ und er verrät, mit was man im Folgenden rechnen darf: gut gemachte, erdige Rock-Musik, die sich durch erfrischende Leichtigkeit auszeichnet. Diese Leichtigkeit kommt am kompaktesten in „Bloom“ zum Ausdruck. Der Song mit eingängigem Refrain macht richtig Lust, mit dem Auto durch einen sonnigen Tag zu rasen. Ein wiederkehrendes Thema ist die Liebe. Dieses wird nicht theatralisch oder schnulzig besungen, vielmehr setzen Dada ante portas auf Rockballaden (z.B. „Taking your love“), die den Blick in die Seelen nicht scheuen, trotzdem aber nie die Coolness eines Rockers verlieren. Selbst dann nicht, wenn es um Abschiedsschmerz geht wie in „Leave for good“.
Textliche Innovation ist in „Mexico“ zu finden, wo sich Dada via Geschichte über eine Frau, die sich auf den Weg nach Übersee begibt, Gedanken über die Angst vor dem Unbekannten und Neuem machen. Diese scheint die Luzerner Band nicht gequält zu haben. Denn die Grundstimmung von „The Theory Of Everything“ ist geprägt von der Lust, Neues auszuprobieren, loszulegen und die Dinge anzupacken. Natürlich können die vier Musiker - ein Bassist hat die Band verlassen - dabei auf ihre Erfahrung setzen. Selten hat ein fünftes Album von einer Band so unbeschwert geklungen. Dada vertreiben die Wolken und reissen selbst die Natur aus ihrem Winterschlaf.
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Discography
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (2008)
SUPERBIXEN (2006)
SEASONS CHANGE (2004)
BOUND FOR NOWHERE (2002)
PLAYING HOOKY (2001)
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Bio
The History of Everything (3:48)
Pee Wirz, vocals
Luc Le Bo, guitars/vocals
Lukas Schaller, guitars
Thommy Lauper, drums
Intro
Lucerne's got just one bank HQ and that's for the Kantonalbank. The only chemicals you'll find are in the pharmacy. And ever since Napoleon named Lucerne the capital of Switzerland, much water has flowed under the bridge. In other words, Lucerne has not got a lot going for it compared, say, to Zurich, Basel or Bern. Yes, it is a nice part of the world here, but otherwise? Well, otherwise, over the past few years, Lucerne has blossomed into Switzerland's top address for rock music (except mundart rock aka dialect rock). At least, that is what the various branches of the media have been saying. Provincial rock apparently having more street-cred than metropolitan rock. And that, of course, only goes to increase the pressure of expectation on the biggest band on that much-praised scene.
Refrain
DADA ANTE PORTAS are now releasing their fifth studio album. OK, OK, all bands happen to think that their latest album is the best-ever. Yet that has never been so true as with THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. The lads from Lucerne really did bring all their experience and all their ability to bear before wiping the slate clean and starting all over again. And then, as if like new-born, they spat out their fabulous songs on to tape. Which is just what the album sounds like: savvy, fresh, upbeat. An album that sounds like a debut and not just because the line-up has changed.
Verse 1
For about ten years now, DADA ANTE PORTAS have been going their own way, unperturbed. Or almost unperturbed. During and after production of the previous album Superbixen, the band members were having huge rows but somehow managed to pull themselves together for the tour. "If we ultimately hadn't been good mates, we'd have been at one at one another's throats", Luc recalls. "Yes", says Pee, "Without that basic friendship, we'd have ended up hating one another and split up on the classic grounds of 'artistic differences". Thommy adds: "it was all that classic ego-crap. Each of us was always in the right". Whatever. At the end of the Superbixen tour, bass player Mitch Prest quit. He'd had enough. "It wasn't easy", Lukas continues, "but jacking it in was never on my agenda. Grooving with my own band, that's all I've ever wanted to do". And so, following night-long discussions in low-down bars, not to mention a log cabin in the Bündner mountains, it eventually transpired that Pee Wirz, Thommy Lauper, Luc Le Bo and Lukas Schaller had not yet had enough of one another, nor of rock'n'roll, nor of the search for big melodies. "With Mitch quitting like that, some decrepit structures went as well and we were able to tackle our fifth studio album with all the enthusiasm of scene newcomers", says Lukas who took the bass part for the interim. By rehearsing for days on end and jamming for nights on end in their own studio, the band laid down countless song ideas, discarded some and tightened up others.
Verse 2
To supervise the recording sessions, DADA ANTE PORTAS finally chose the Hanover-based Italian producer Fabio Trentini (Donots, Sasha, Guano Apes). But also because the all-out Beatles and Police fan plays a mean bass and Lukas was itching to get back to guitar. "When Fabio came to our studio and I could play guitar again and he could take the bass part, the joint, well, really rocked", he says. One thing is clear: DADA ANTE PORTAS are aiming on stage to give it more gas but without sacrificing melody, nuance and ballad. "Live, it's simply cooler to let it rock", says singer Pee " and that, at the end of the day, is what has always been our greatest strength: to storm the stage and let it really rock". A strength, please note, that DADA ANTE PORTAS have never before quite captured on tape as with the ease of THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING.
Under Fabio's supervision, then, the boys from Lucerne have recorded in Hanover a CD that highlights everything they do best. There is the venom of The Erratic Rage of the Prey and Be Ashamed. There is the sumptuousness of Another Promise and Leave for Good. The wonderful guitar riffs on Tick Tock Attack duel with the folk-picking of Mexico and the pop stomp of Bloom. In Taking Your Love, there's even a Police snatch. Which at first caused the producer to belly-ache. "Do we really have to do that? All my pals will think I made you do it!" Well, let it be said loud and clear: Taking Your Love is one of the best rock songs of recent years.
Intermezzo
In October 1997, DADA ANTE PORTAS played their first gig at the Zwischenbühne in Horw/Lucerne. After approx. 100 concerts, they released their debut album Playin Hooky (2001) which made 44th place in the Swiss charts. They then played 60 concerts in Switzerland and Germany before recording Bound for Nowhere (2002, 15th place), Seasons Change (2004, 3rd place) and Superbixen (2006, 4
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