Track By Tracks: Puppe Magnetik - Laudans Deum (2025)

01) "Act: XXII" is a classic poem with a decadent mood and vocal scales and the reverberation of a spiral hallway; it represents a bit of the thick horror coming of the twisted atmospheres of the album.

02) "The Invisible Garden", a surreal journey where the protagonist sees a garden outside his house and hears distant voices, with decadent and rhythmic music similar to a funeral mass.

03) "Who Will Sing This Sorrow?" It's a typical medieval ballad with a very ancient atmosphere. I think it reflects the house where I live, uninhabited for years and finally open to parties and banquets, it's probably the most suitable song to describe Puppe Magnetik, especially in the second part, more ritual and magical.

04) "The Pregnant Nun" is a monastery dungeon where the nun gives birth alone, hidden from everyone, in a gloomy atmosphere, with moans among the shadows.

05) "Suspendium, Rosarium Et Crucifixum" is something like a shouted sermon. I was inspired by the great German screamers. The song is quite hysterical and nervous, disturbing.

06) "Patient AV" is basically the essay I presented at school, an original decadent and industrial-influenced classical operetta, which was defined by the Academy as too extreme to be considered music, but it is a judgment that can be justified if it comes from a classical institute. Rather, it seems to come out of the soundtrack of a black and white horror.

07) "The Labyrinth" is a song born as a joke. I wanted to prove to myself that I could write a catchy song, which I tried to dirty in some way. I thought it would be fun to insert in such a dark and nocturnal album.

08) "Moritat" represents death accepted as an aspect of life and, in a positive sense, expressed as the last of sleep. A slow, gentle litany and then silence.

09) "Act: XXVII" is a religious poem, simply a prayer. I love using Latin; I find it a very powerful and expressive language. It has a magnetic power; the atmosphere of the song is rather sweet, inspired, and suspended in the void.

10) "Laments From The Desert" is dedicated to all the women who suffer during the conflict in the Middle East. I imagined myself barefoot among them in the desert, with nothing, in the middle of a war that has lasted forever.

11) "Inner Light / Outer Protest" is the loudest and most hysterical song on the album, it also has its own musicality, but it is very hostile, almost shouted to the crowd with a megaphone, it is cacophonous, abrasive noise Eastern Europe 1980 model, a crash zone, a wall of ice.

12) "Timeless Serenade", is a piece for classical guitar, one of my many original acoustic pieces that I perform with the guitar, a little inspired by the French tradition and the spirit of the Renaissance in Europe, an enchanting and almost positive melody, one of the few glimmers of light in the album.

13) "Zwischen Licht und Schatten" is without a doubt my favorite piece. I wrote and performed several "1930's period" pieces at the conservatory, we never did anything with them, but we recorded several of them and this is a fragment of a perfect duet with a classmate of mine, in the operetta style.