Firewater - The Man On The Burning Tightrope - CD

The fourth Firewater album The Man On The Burning Tightrope builds a vast circus of the absurd that integrates cabaret, revue show, fairground and theater. The tent roof is black, the lighting is sparse, and the director stands in the circus ring and presents odd stories, confused thoughts full of irony and feelings, tragic comedies full of cynicism, great dramas and socio-political digs.

The band plays completely shaken up alternative rock, on whose crumbling foundation art rock, fairground music, Kurt Weillian themes, cop shoot cop legacies, jazz particles or twisted pop find their place. And then these eloquent, vivid texts written by Tod A.: "Because it's such a cold day down here in hell/And it's such a long way, a long way to heaven/But it's okay because we're singing with the angels," he sings on the hopeless love song Anything At All. Also in "Dark Days Indeed" ("We don't know who put this cup of life into our hands/But when we go our bones will bake upon the burning sands") the dark clouds don't lift.

Welcome to the reality freak show. Tired of life should stay outside, defeatists have free entry.