Christopher - The Wer Next Projekt
Reviewed by: Azriel
J. Knight Every so often
in our lives we come across an artist that musically blows our minds with
originality, power, beauty and just something we cannot place our fingers
on. These few artists don't come by very often, but they usually end up
being not only one of our favorites, but one of the bands who's musical
mastery will stay with our hearts for years to come.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The
wer Next Projekt is that album! "The title: came to me in
a dream." Christopher recalls. "I don't know the
significance. I do know that depending on the pronunciation of `wer Next'
you could be asking a question or an answer. So I guess I can conclude
what `wer Next Projekt' means: It's a question that answers itself."
Only three of the songs on here
contain actual Lyrics. Wakeuplove, Fall into It and You're
So Sexual. You're So Sexual is about a female friends fantasy
of anal sex in a church "The ultimate pleasure combined with the
ultimate sacrilege" Christopher adds, fucking cool! Other memorable tracks will be
Between Love and Lucidity, Un-Joi, Waiting for Pussy
Willow and of coarse Christopher's epic, Nokturne. The most tear jerking song I
have heard in a long time would have to be Not There Anymore (For N)
The details are not revealed to us by the artist, but the song is of tragic
loss of a loved one and the vocals are sung, on location at her gravesite
with portable equipment. Until this information was brought to my attention
I had not heard anything so beautifully sorrowful since Type O Negative's
Peter Steel got intoxicated and passed out on his lovers grave one
mournful Halloween. Christopher just prayed to any god that his
lost love would hear his anguished cries somehow, as he sang alone, amongst
the stones. I hear bands all the time telling
me they don't sound like anyone and they are hard to classify, when in
reality they sound like Metallica or something obvious. But Christopher
and The wer Next Projekt are quite possibly the hardest things
I have had to classify out of the eight-hundred-ish bands I have heard
in the last year. Which is a good thing in days like these where original
gets you everyone's attention. Love him or hate him, Christopher's
The wer Next Projekt will get your attention. Post Your Comments Here Sources:
Other Pandaemonium
Articles: Websites:
A massive assault of tribal drums, heavy guitars, eastern vocals and tracks
so long they can be classified as epic! One of these epics is Nokturne,
our seventeen-minute introduction to this phenomenal creation from our
humble New Jersey resident/Canadian artist. Nokturne begins with
some haunting, eerie, nearly seductive voices that seem to call to you,
and the abstract plucking of an acoustic guitar. And like a roller coaster
when you reach the peek of the ride, Nokturne explodes into a folly
of sound. The adrenaline rush kicks in and your body is strapped in barreling
down at 60 mph, and your ears are filled with the beauty of tribal drums,
heavy guitars and Christopher's eastern-like cries beyond the stretches
of imagination. Nokturne is so filled with changes of pace, samples,
tribal drums, guitars, beautiful singing and emotional bombardments that
I could write a review on that one song all in itself, with Nokturne
being over seventeen minutes long it is a CD in itself. "Nokturne
is based on a 15th century piece called `Come Heavy Sleep' written by
John Dowland, and a piece by Benjamin Britten called `Nocturnal
(for John Dowland) which is based around the themes of `Come Heavy Sleep.'"
Christopher explains in an interview with Pandaemonium.
"`Nokturne' combines both of those songs together and I added
my interpretations of both pieces. As for the length, it just happened
to end up like that. I don't take most people's short attention spans
into consideration. If it works at 17 minutes, let it be 17 minutes."
The complexity of The Wer Next Projekt is above and beyond anything
I have ever heard. In The Wer Next Projekt, Christopher uses the
sounds of an electric guitar, a 12 string guitar, a mandolin, a violin,
a cello, a zither, a Flute, a Digeridoo, a Tabla, a Formica table, a dumbek,
a djembe, an arctic wind drum, an udu, a timbales, a snare drum, a porcelain
bath tub, drum hardware, the stomach of a girl, various metallic parts
of a drum kit, congas, shakers, zils, beaten and broken cymbals, scrap
metal, Synthesizers, keyboards and programming/sampling and if that isn't
enough for you Christopher has incorporated vocals styles such
as Bulgarian, Nordic, Classical Indian, Celtic, Opera and rock. This is
not even the full list my dear readers. "No compressors, no noise
gates, just a cheap $100 microphone and lots of imagination"
Christopher says. "I didn't think about what instruments
I was going to use or how I was going to sing. It just happened that way,
and I felt, at the end, the album goes for your throat. I don't remember
actually doing much of the record, every time tracks were laid down, I
was in a trance or a zone of some sort. Something within me, or maybe
even outside of me, drove this record to completion. A lot of fucked up
emotions, weird occurrences, blood loss (literally) and a nervous breakdown
all contributed to the creation of wer Next Projekt"
www.pandaemon.cjb.net
The wer Next Projekt Available:
cdbaby.com
Interview with Christopher: July
2001
www.comecloser.com
mp3.com/christopherx
Homeless
Android Lust:
The Dividing
Imperative Reaction:
Ruined
Cesium 137:
Assembly
Theatre of Tragedy:
Assembly
Gotterdammerung:
Morphia
VNV Nation:
Future Perfect
HOCICO:
Signos De Abberacion
Stromkern:
Armeggedon
Cut Rate Box:
Dataseed
Void Construct:
Estramay Aleph
Christopher:
The Wer Next Projekt
Lost Signal:
Catharsis
Flesh Field:
Belief Control
Wumpscut:
Wreath of Barbs
Collide:
Beneath the Skin
Blank:
424C414E4B & promo2
BlutEngel:
Seelenschmerz
Project Pitchfork:
Daimonion
Welle Erdball:
VW Käfer & 1000 Tage
Silent Watcher
of Dark Matter:
Installation
Goliath:
Land Of Nod
Tapping The Vein:
Undone
Collide:
Chasing the Ghost
Theatre of Tragedy:
Aegis
R.N. Atrophy:
Broken
Various Artists:
Cryogenic Studio-Vol2
Various Artists:
Gothic Divas
The Sins of thy Beloved:
Perpetual Desolation
Paradise Lost:
One Second
Sisters of Mercy:
A Slight Case of Overbombing
Theatre of Tragedy:
Velvet Darkness They Fear
