This is about my progressive rock double album, released in December, 2009. Actually, these are two independent albums, packed in a high-quality digicase. I don't sell it any longer, but feel free to listen to the music.

CD 1 - About Angst is a concept album inspired by one of Grimm's fairy tales: "The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was".
CD 2 - Daydreamer is a collection of individual songs and instrumental pieces.

The story is about the troubled youth and the growing up of the protagonist Jake, who rebels against his parents, the establishment and society. In order to impress the unloved father, he takes the highest risks in crazy actions and exposes himself to great dangers. He is unconsciously plagued by fears he can not confess, otherwise he would be the image of the timid child his father drew from him. His emotions are locked far down inside. But then he falls in love with Sarah. The fear of losing her finally teaches him that fear can have meaning.

Credits

• Roland Enders - wrote the lyrics and composed the music, played guitars and keyboards, sang most of the vocals, programmed and arranged the music, produced and mixed the whole stuff, designed the booklet (except the cover artwork).
• Thommy Frank - vocals on tracks 4, 5 and 7.
• Claudia Salzig - vocals on tracks 4 and 8.
• Stefan Dittmar - played the drums.
• Kai Heyrock - gave the impetus to About Angst and composed the melody of a theme that grew to a main hookline. He also plays some guitar-lines.
• Hanspeter Hess - plays additional keyboards on track 1 and 9 of About Angst.
• Patrick Boehner - designed the cover art of About Angst.
• Elisabeth Enders - shot all the photos.

Listen to:

*) In "The Ride" the following samples from http://www.freesound.org were used:

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Credits

• Roland Enders - wrote the lyrics and composed the music, played guitars and keyboards, sang most of the vocals, programmed and arranged the music, produced and mixed the whole stuff, designed the booklet (except the cover artwork).
• Stefan Dittmar - played the drums.
• Bettina Berchem - vocals on track 8.
• Elisabeth Enders - shot the cover photo.

Listen to: