author: Klaus Schleser, Germany
Musical Multi Talent
The privious success of Serious bases on setting one crown by the other with
every new album.
For that her actually album “antagonism” is again a crown of her
artistically progression, which is not terminated for a long time yet.
Inge Zimmermann-Probst from Germany is “Serious” – and as a multi talent
responsible for lyrics, composition an production of the songs, produced in
her own studio.
In addition to that, she has the extraordinary feeling for grafics, layout
and cooporate indentity. If it is the design of her cd-covers or the
production of her own video clips, everything is very professional, but also
elaborate and produced with a lot of love to the details.
“Serious-Music” is now an independent trademark. Her songs have a great
recall value, her video clips are sensationally good. Her degree of
popularity increases from one production to the other.
Her new album “Antagonism” is in addition to that a production, with that
Serious demonstrate her ability, that she is hold in high regard and
accepted by other musicians.
So you can find on this CD excellent songs, which are made in cooporation
with musician from USA, Japan and Germany via the internet.
Serious-Music will give you the creeps. Distinctive and simply good. An
artist with an extraordinary talent, with a lot of creativity and musical
feeling. You will hear a lot of her.
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Stepping outside conformity to emotional response
author: Morgenblume aka Gill Whitehurst
Anyone who has ever stepped outside their box and really felt, and I mean really felt, the challenges faced by not just ourselves, but by people who we would not normally say "hello" to, will recognise from this album straight away that Serious Music has been there too.
From the tender goodbye to those we finally see hold us back with their confinements and expectations of us in "So Long My Friend", to the uplifting and hopeful balm of the the last track, "In the End" I was caught on a journey that demanded my true emotional response to the music and Lyrics I was hearing.
On this journey our protagonist leaves behind known territory, witnesses the struggle of people with the chains that can bind and wound, alcohol (in Teufals Hand), indifference (Don't push me away) poverty (I am ashamed) lack of confidence (Shy).
The challenge of really experiencing life, and the barbs that prod and irritate our comfort zones, is for me beautifully illustrated in the title track "Antagonism"
On the way are the tantalizing "corner of the eye" glimpses of something better (Appearance of anything, Acoustic Conditioning, Kein Schoner Land, Come into my Dreamworld) The desperate search, possibly even flight, in Night Hunting is brilliantly executed
Which are real? Which are dead ends on this road? This is beautifully resolved in the last track, "In the end" the excellent collaboration with East Meets West, where its made clear where the Way for this adventurer lies.
The collaborative work with Marijan and Syngularity is an unmistakeable and wonderful fusion of ideas and action.
My journey with this album may not be as it was intended, and other's may interpret the story differently. But one thing I am certain of,
this is a unique, moving and highly imaginative piece of work, I would recommend it to anyone with a heart, but particularly recommend it to anyone having difficulty finding theirs.
Morgenblume a.k.a Gill Whitehurst
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