Adversus
Einer Nacht Gewesenes

Impossible! These people are out of their minds! Cheerful, yes, of course... but what kind of music do they make?

Orchestra, metal influences, medieval, Renaissance, folk, electro, gothic... choirs, powerful percussion, flutes and double basses, piano, clarinet, acoustic guitar, inhuman screams and a bagpipe! You can't mix these things, the effect of all this enthusiasm is exhausting! However... upon listening to them several times, you discover that they are highly contagious.

Changes in tempo, details that enrich the composition giving it interest, imagination at the service of technical mastery, and a lot of enthusiasm ingrained in melodies that are, all in all, traditional and mostly from the medieval repertoire make Adversus a dark yet well-paced and... cheerful group!

They are the king's jesters, that's who they are, having used the time machine to go and console him for his troubles.

"Sire, we have come from the land of the Teutons"

"Aaargh... heathens!"

"Yes, but educated and technically flawless. The maiden who sings is named Tyrae, and we're not exaggerating, not just to blow our own horn, but she can trill like the Queen of the Night from Mozart's The Magic Flute."

"Of Mo... who?"

"Never mind... listen, listen to 'Die Nihilstenhymne' while our acrobats do somersaults and we make funny faces at you, there are also little bells, nice, eh?"

"You're overwhelming me, but go on..."

"Now Tyrae will recite a sweet poem in Teutonic to cure your ulcer"

"Music, I want music!"

"Here you go then, the sweet and rhythmic 'Diener Shoenheit gewahr', don't mind if Tyrae sings as if she's tipsy and her companion Rosendorn at times seems terribly angry and sometimes incredibly sweet, let yourself be lulled by the refrain and the harpsichord as if you were on a carousel spinning around"

"Zzzz it's nice and dreamy zzz."

"Now listen to 'Dies ist offensichlich' feel the rhythm of medieval drums accompanying the bagpipe and the ever slightly hysterical voices"

"If you say so yourselves!"

"And now the best of all: 'Spinnenbein und Falkenherz'"

"You're crazy!"

"Yes, we are crazy, cheerful, and happy and we walk upside down and no one will stop us and we play with the entire orchestra, break the melody with phrases full of semitones then we throw in a powerful choir and the whole crowd will follow us like the rats followed the Pied Piper uuuuaaahhhiiih. All right, we'll calm down by offering you the sweet and heartfelt 'Kalt, Dieser Morgen' with its catchy melody but be aware that it might not leave your head for a while'"

"Good, so I won't think of Pepin the Short anymore..."

"And Pepin the Long, yes, we know everything. Don't think about it Sire and fall asleep peacefully to the sound of 'Morgenstille' and we, in the meantime, greet you and return to our century aufwiedersehen chus ciao goodbye au revoir echissevistsevvist.."