Kamerakino - Paradiso download free

This album has been a companion to me for a long time. Kamerakino are certainly not a band who desires to please, as such it may have received a limited audience. Their style is very much influenced by their studying of music and takes their hometown Munich as the central point to discover Europe and incorporate it not merely by looking West and Northward, but by looking to the East of Europe, too. This is certainly the work in which all main members of Kamerakino's ideas interlink the most successfully: Be it Erol, Piko B., Nick McCarthy or Polly - unlike what some might think, this is very tightly put together in a way that Can, were also very much in control of their writing even though they used sessions and lengthy song-structures. Paradiso can best be described as beautifully arranged Chaos. As such it is surprising, unusual and very versatile. On it they incorporate the world that surrounds them, starting of with the sound of a Munich Tram arriving, leading to a synth-melody and over-layered vocals heading into different directions. It's intersting to note, that Kamerakino recorded this 8 years ago. It raises the question if being recorded two years later, in English and as obtrusively Gypsy / Balkan as Gogol Bordello would they have been more successful, well at least one of their band mates was, after all Nick McCarthy started Franz Ferdinand after this...