Rolander
I recorded three solo albums under the artist name Rolander :
Entropy
Entropy was the most ambitious project I achieved so far. It comprises eight audio tracks with a total playing time of about one hour,
and five music videos. I managed it all myself.
This project is non-commercial. Feel free to download the songs.
Listen to:
Firefly
The City's Dream
New Eden
The Rite Of Winter
The Networked Life
Two Doors
W.A.T.E.R.
The videos
These videos are embedded as Youtube videos. To watch them in full screen mode, first click on the play button and then on the full screen icon at the bottom right of the playbar .
Entropy
Entropy is an elusive, abstract, scientific term. To put it simply, it states the fact that disorder will increase in the whole universe.
Entropy is the reason why we perceive time. The world is developing in one direction and will never reach a previous state. Life spans from birth to death, the universe expands from "Big Bang" to "Big Chill", ending cold, empty and lifeless.
The City's Dream
The novel "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville inspired me to write this song. I tried to transfer the mood and vibrancy of the fictitious city "New Crobuzon" to a contemporary megacity. A lot of the figures of speech I used in the lyrics originate form Miéville's pen.
The Rite of Winter
Not a winter blues but some serious thoughts about.. Well listen to the lyrics.
My wife Elisabeth has shot the title photo.
Two Doors
Scenes from the mind of a person who suffers from bipolar disorder. Two mental doors lead to the landscapes of fancy and mood: "Ecstasy", the land of joy and the "Shattered Plains", the land of grief.
W.A.T.E.R.
W.A.T.E.R. is a symphonic rock tune. Obviously, the element water is its theme. The video shows a lot of impressive
nature footage.
My wife Elisabeth has shot the title photo.
A Pocketful Of Regrets
After two progressive rock concept albums I fancied a change: the next album should have no tracks longer than eight minutes, no over-complex structures, not as many odd measures and no overarching theme. So this CD is just a collection of stand-alone songs and instrumentals located between folk and rock.
The album is available as free download! To make your own CD find the print files, CD-image or mp3-files below in the download area.
To make the printing of the artwork as easy as possible for you the booklet has only four pages to fit on one sheet of paper. Therefore, it does not include the lyrics. They are provided separately.
Credits
Roland Enders: vocals, guitars & stringed instruments,
keyboards, kb-Bass, kb-drums,
recording, mix & mastering,
music & lyrics
Nikolas Mews: lead vocals on 05 & 07
Bettina Berchem: 2nd lead & backing vocals on 02
Kai Heyrock: bass on 01 & 07,
additional guitars on 01,
lead guitars on 03,
2nd lead guitar on 09
Hanspeter Hess: Hammond-solo on 03,
keyboards on 09
Stefan Dittmar: drums on 03, 07 & 09
Alex Gajic: lyrics of 08
Elisabeth Enders: photos
Downloads
mp3-files for your player
Print files (Booklet, Inlay & Label)
Listen to:
The Facets Of Ice
The Convention Of Camels
Fading
Identities
Aurora Borealis
Down's Syndrome
A Sun-tanned Smile
The Mission
Caine
This was my first solo album. I recorded it in 2005 and remixed it in 2011. I readily admit that it was inspired by Spock`s Beard`s
Album "Snow". I fell in love with Snow and developed the desire to write a concept album myself.
It tells the story of Caine - a famous rock star who survives a near-fatal car accident.
Caine falls in a coma and goes through a near death experience. After his recovery his personality has changed
totally. He expresses his new spirituality in the lyrics of his songs and becomes the spearhead of a movement
whose goal is an undogmatic spirituality that bridges the gap between religions, science and philosophy.
But a minority of his followers regards him as the new Messiah and they exploit him for their crusade against
tolerance and freedom of worship. As he defies them they send an assassin who kills Caine. After his death
his vision of a reconciliation of world religions, philosophy and science seems to fulfil, but the open-end
question of the story is: is Caine's way the right one or will his ideas - as many spiritual revelations
before - lead to intolerance, persecution of dissidents or even wars of religion?
Credits
Roland Enders: Composed the music, wrote the lyrics, played and programmed all instruments,
mixed and mastered the album, created the artwork and worked as a speaker and singer on some tracks
Claudia Salzig (as storyteller): vocals
Nikolas Mews (as Caine): vocals
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Listen to some of the tracks:
Caine
The Experience Of Being Dead
The Message
The Schizm
Assassin
Interlude: The Tempest