A cold and desolate wall. Laughter echoes from the depth of your memories. Tides rising. A burning lung. Silhouettes vanishing in the fog. There’s blood on the streets. A cruel work of fiction. The phone is ringing. Feigned security. Paper beats rock. Being kept in the dark. The sound of shards. Falling backwards into water. A role model without function. Social services denied. Checkmate. The warm comfort of a screen. Hate in every act and word. Like shadows from open flames. Shots fired. The color of a dying reef. The tone of your father‘s voice. The station understaffed. Paralyzed. The prayer unanswered. Her look when you said your last goodbye...
„Innere Unruhen“ is an ambiguous German phrase. It can mean „feelings of unease and unrest“ as well as „civil unrest“. Both meanings can take very different shapes, as pictured above. This album is about the thread that weaves them together. It is an attempt to envision the connected stories of individual and collective life, musically. While writing this album, we discussed whether innere Unruhen, personal or collective unrests, are good or bad. We agreed that one should strive to find an inner calm, yet accept that unrest on every level is productive: a driving force of change, a way to incite empathy and bridge the gap from thoughts to action.
Living in a field of permanent unrest is hard. The undeniable feeling of discomfort leaves one with the impression of powerlessness. A deeply engraved assumption that we‘re not up to the task of changing anything, that it is up to others to do so. But then again discomfort might be instructive. It forces us to acknowledge the current state of things. It connects us with others who can relate to similar experiences. In this sense, innere Unruhen are quite paradoxical: they allow us to find the strength to start with what‘s directly in front of us.
„Innere Unruhen“ features 6 songs connected by the necessity to rise and speak up.
credits
released March 25, 2022
Written and performed by BRUECKEN:
Thorge Freidel - Guitars, Programming, Synths
David Barteczko - Guitars
Jens Niehoff - Bass, Hang Drum
Florian Alemi - Drums
Additional programming by Claudius Mertins
Artwork by ESKAPIST DESIGN
Recorded, mixed and produced by Fabian Schulz at Sunsetter Studio, Bremen
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, NY
Thank you to momentofcollapse for their trust and everybody listening, enjoying, encouraging and supporting us to keep on making music.
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