Member Since: 13/04/2006
Band Website: http://www.cryptic-scenery.de
Band Members: christian h. soetemann - vocals and instruments
Influences: some influences on the music and lyrics in general:
minimalism, mesmeric sounds, beautiful repetition, deserted landscapes and ballrooms, melancholy moods, urban paranoia, silent places, loss & decay...
some writers, philosophers and psychologists that have in some way influenced and/or inspired me:
arthur schopenhauer - sigmund freud - jean-paul sartre - franz kafka - ludwig marcuse - parmenides - and many more...
some music artists that have influenced and/or inspired me:
roxy music & bryan ferry - brian eno - peter hammill & van der graaf generator - robert fripp & king crimson - john cale - and also the trees - philip glass - pink floyd - ultravox & john foxx - scott walker - cocteau twins - xtc - wire - the nits - roger eno - david lynch & angelo badalamenti - harold budd - joe jackson - velvet underground - michael rother - erik satie -david bowie - john cage - talking heads - tangerine dream - talk talk - elvis costello - omd - the beatles - the stranglers - godspeed you! black emperor - and many, many more...
Sounds Like: you check that out yourself, mate!
Record Label: BSBTA / d'oorhinge l'Orange
Type of Label: Indie