Warum muessen Menschen sterben? Damit das Leben einen Sinn ergibt.
Why must man die? Because this is how life becomes meaningful. While this hidden message reaches the listener at large only from the artwork of "Limited Coma" (CD-album + video DVD, Forcible Art Tribe, 2006) by NoyceTM, it is also a prevalent message of the album, suffused with danse macabre-like hidden sonic jewels and devastating, humane experiences.
Oliver Goetz (songstructures, synthwork, programming) and Florian Schaefer (voice, words, songstructures) - the lineup of NoyceTM back in 2006, promise a great deal and meet up this expectation in "Limited Coma". "Coma" tells stories about a half life from different views and describes lived experience in the abyss of the soul! - says Florian to Viva Music, and we cannot but agree.
The album debuts with the infiltrating whispered secrets in a bilingual English and German about the phantom-like appearance of a ravishingly beautiful girl, just before a moment of silence erupts into a glorious cascade of sound. It is "Downward Hymn", a well devised introduction to the album. And while to many it would be an audacity to name a song like a well-known Massive Attack track, "Karmacoma" is a harmonious, partly Gregorian song, with quite an antique luster about it, that can stand next to the Massive Attack track without shying away.
"Year 03" adds electro beat to the classical goth feel of previous tracks: the apocalyptical background vies with a world unformed, like that of early humanity, in which the singer assumes an observer's, rather than a feeler's stance. "Headland" continues the electro sequence switched on by "Year 03" and talks about a mental geography in which singer and listener alike can fathom the distance between myself and I. It is really melodic and catchy, a quality that succinctly makes it a centerpiece of the album.
"Man on the Moon" feels like it starts where it should end: a reversal of fate, it starts off in slowmo vocal effect and talks freely of an atheist creed, of a world forlorn by its creator. It is no coincidence that the atmosphere and setting are kept in the next track, probably the most devastating one of the album. "The Darkest Years" is a song with a script: the darkest year of child abuse. The musical box passages, the tantrum like music that unravels and ravishes, in a game of prey and perpetrator in which the latter faces no option.
"Mensch", despite its all-German lyrics, is like an aerial track, in which you know that the feeling has defected the body. The second coma track of the album, "Coma" is a great combination of crystal clear instrument and voice distort, with great sentiment. Ist es die Stille die mich schlafen lasst? (Is it tranquility that has me sleep?) makes unequivocal reference to the noyce (sic!) of apparently undisturbed coma.
"Hypnotized" induces a paradis artificiels atmosphere - with missed chances in life like corridors lit by neonlight - that renders an increasingly fictional pace of life, if not to self-discovery to heaven-like deliverance. "Sleepwalker" is a very powerful, idealistic, though somewhat disconcerted song and it is followed by "Wachkoma", a ‘wake' coma, with well wrought electro sound. It may well be the most optimistic track of the album. "Hypnotized [X10DED]" and "Comawalker" are good add-ins to the album, that round up a very electro pop album with a new wave feel to it. Since then, NoyceTM have further matured with their "Un:Welt" album, already reviewed by Viva Music's darkwave.ro site.
In a nutshell, the album is, as confessed by NoyceTM's Florian a panoramic, multiple angle preview of the profoundness of human soul, in which humaneness and despair cohabit and touch that sensitive chord of artistry. It is great listening material, at times demanding, at other times lenient with its listener.
Discography
1998 Panique
1999 The White Room
2000 White Hypnotized Noise
2006 Coma
2006 Dee Chai Coma
2007 Mensch
2007 Our World In Coma
2009 Un:welt
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