Intro Review von Red Room Diner (2004)

”Intelligence requires countermeasures”  – is Resonator’s motto. That doesn’t mean people should become stupid but conveys the idea that a head free from the ballast of theory is easier to get grooving.

A visit to the ”Red Room Diner” raises the imagination-quotient by a large jump immediately.

It’s some pastiche, some amazing synthesis of differnt musical styles, but most of all it’s a great and direct experience.

Whispering and silenced sounds like from one of the rooms next door (there is nine of them altogether), each of those rooms with a tennant, an arcane secret, a story without words behind all those doors.

Anja Kreysing and Kai Niggemann surround the listener with acoustically moved/moving mood-pictures. Dark electronic soundscapes at times, into which the accordeon in musette fashion like a soullike narrative voice, adds little melodic motifs.

Every now and then samples, sounds from conversations, surprising noises enter and whirr around like flies around a lamp.

After their silent film soundtrack for Nosferatu a few years ago, the Münster-based duo now proves with their debut-album filled  dreamlike musical camerapans how the images can linger — even without the silver screen — in suggestive sounds alone. Trigger your imagination!

(Wolfgang A. Müller)