Dear "All"-present - Master Yoda has influenced the new album of BLACK SPACE RIDERS

Thematically, this time everything revolves around the eternal battle of good against evil. It burns up around "Amoretum", according to the album title, a Garden of Eden somewhere in space, the last place of its kind. A concept album then? "No, more like a song cycle around an idea," singer and guitarist JE explains. Like "Refugeeum", the title "Amoretum" is also an artificial word that refers to its content; it is composed of "Amore" (love) and "Aboretum" (a protected garden or park).

On the predecessors "Refugeeum" and "Beyond Refugeeum" of 2015 and 2016, respectively, it was quite earthly about refugees, forcing them to leave their homes, what this does to them, how they find safe havens and whether they become more than that, namely a new home. Since then, according to JE, "the world has become an even worse place, nationalism, demarcation and isolation have increased. Many people are insecure about everything that is different, they are afraid and at some point they are full of hatred. It reminded me of a saying by Master Yoda: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to infinite suffering.'"

"I thought to myself, "How can fear and hatred be overcome if not by love? This is how the idea of this place developed, a germ cell of love and good threatened by evil and of figures who want to save it by all means. On one side there are very dark lyrics, on the other very positive." The story, however, is not told linearly...

Lest mehr im eclipsed Nr. 197 (02-2018).