Endraum is a German Darkwave band founded in 1989 by Hovi Miskovics and Roman Rütten in Frankfurt am Main.
Background
The group emerged from the previous band Crux Ansata, who released an album independently in 1989. Although Endraum's roots are in guitar-oriented post-punk and dark wave, their music, mostly by Ruetten, was mainly electronic from the beginning. In contrast to Goethes Erben or Das Ich, Endraum never had a large commercial breakthrough. Their concerts are infrequent, and tend to be in Europe. They have held concerts in Germany, Italy, Russia, Greece, Poland, Belgium, occasionally with a bassist as a guest musician. Unlike many electronic-oriented bands, Endraum's concerts use live instruments. Only the rhythms come fromDAT. After releasing their first two albums on the Danse Macabre label, Endraum founded their own labelWeisser Herbst Produktion in 1994. The label is now a part of the Trisol Music Group, which includes such bands as The Frozen Autumn, End of Orgy and Sea of Tranquility.
Endraum, along with the likes of Goethes Erben and Das Ich, was part of the late 1980s German darkwave movement called Neue Deutsche Todeskunst. In the mid-1990s, Endraum's style moved increasingly towards ambient and electronica. The complexity of their compositions and frequent use of natural-sounding piano and string voices give Endraum a very "organic" sound. The vocals are usually Hovi Miskovics' calm German spoken word lyrics, which often contain surrealist puns and allusions. Miskovics also designs the CD artwork in a Surrealist style reminiscent of Cubist paintings. Several of their albums have guest musicians such as Laura Carleton from Sea of Tranquility or Yvon Million and Dominique Oudiou from the French coldwave band Neutral Project.
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Endraum produced a soundtrack for the two-part ARD documentary "Hitlers Stellvertreter -- Aufstieg und Fall des Rudolf Heß" More music productions for German TV followed.
Endraum maintain a mailing list to keep in touch with their supporters and in recent years have a regularfan meeting in Frankfurt. There, attendees have the opportunity to receive special CDs of mostly unpublished material, limited to 10-20 copies.
