Press Release I Found Inside A Das Damen Album

The first solo album by Rudolf Hecke (COMPANY OF STATE), deals with a concrete period of his life.
For a year and a half, he locked himself up in a completely black room, spending days and nights writing, painting, reading, eating (“That same junky girl who brought me vegetables and eggs, in exchange for letting her read my latest poems”), making music and finally having a deep mental depression that was followed by a suicide attempt…
“When I first looked outside during recovery I noticed that even the grass had turned black during my absence”.

The music is influenced by the written thoughts of Arthur Schopenhauer and Max Stirner, the hallucinogenic images of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Fernando Arrabal (“When I feel that black tunnel approaching again I watch one of their movies, they help me to stop it”) and the lives of Kenneth Patchen, Nico and Edith Piaf.

It is trance music not dance music, based on the skill to write catchy and surprising melodies.
It will change the way you think !!

IT IS OUR SENTENCE TO ENDURE AND OUR ONLY CRIME THAT WE ARE HERE TO SERVE IT.

“I just stand myself as I stand this friend to hang himself in front of a six year old child.
I’m not hiding anymore
I’ll be struck too by that dark angel’s wing, my mind isn’t worth trusting it barks with insane laughter”

The tracks :
A Loss
Bring Him Down
The Children Of Elm Street
Guardian Angel
One Last Summer
God=Dog Spelled Backwards

Eyes Of Crows
Together
In Every Mind Some Rain Must Fall
It’s A Shame
Some Awful Gift
Dream Of Nico