Date:    Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:14:55 -0700
From:    shane <shane@TREX.ORG>
Subject: Clan Of Xymox in Mexico...


And here's something Ronny Moorings says about the latest album 'Hidden
Faces':
 
> Nothing ever remains the same.  If a band repeats their sound every
> time it would mean that the band "plays it on safe" and are no real
> musicians.  I think the aim of a band is to evolve and take each album
> as a new place for new ideas.  It would be very boring to hear ten of
> the same albums of a group.  Of course there are always people who
> can't get enough of one of the same thing and want you to repeat
> yourself over and over, but most likely they would order in a
> restaurant always the same dish as well.  If you want to divide the
> album 'Hidden Faces', you could say that there are hard edged
> industrial pieces on it, like "Going Round 97" and "Hypocrite",
> melancholic ballads as "It's All a Lie" and "The Story Ends", "up
> beat" dark songs like "Out of the Rain" and "Sing a Song" (produced by
> Dave M. Allen, known for his productions of the Cure and Sisters of
> Mercy) and finally slow film music like "November" and "Wailing Wall"
> (produced with John A. Rivers, known of his productions of Dead Can
> Dance).  All these ingredients you could find on the albums 'Clan of
> Xymox' and 'Medusa'.  I think the music on 'Hidden Faces' is a logical
> follow up album of Clan of Xymox made in the 90's.  I think we reached
> a new musical innovations of ourselves merging the darker times of 4AD
> with driving sounds of the 90's.  That is why we signed with Tess
> Records as they remind me of how 4AD used to be.