Arivati Entertainment presents:
CAMOUFLAGE
It's 2015, and one retro wave follows another.
Synth-pop is bigger than ever before and current productions around the world are referencing the sound of the pre-reunification era in Germany.
What are the originals, the bands and artists of that era, doing today? Many of them are still doing the rounds as greeters at local eighties parties, others are investing the royalties from back then in growing organic vegetables. Not so Camouflage. Yes, that's right: THE Camouflage.
The masters of sadness in the guise of electronic songs. The band that spilled over from Bietigheim-Bissingen directly into the USA in 1987 with "The Great Commandment", with music that ingeniously combined the coolness of Kraftwerk, the pop of OMD and the melancholy gloom of Depeche Mode.
With their debut album "Voices & Images", the band enjoyed success on both sides of the Atlantic.
In the USA, they even reached number one in the Billboard Dance Charts.
With the follow-up "Methods of Silence", they were able to seamlessly build on this and created a gem of a hit with the single "Love Is A Shield", which is still stirring dancefloors and radio stations around the world today.
A lot has happened on our planet since then and the band has come a long way, which has been anything but straightforward. In the nineties, they played with styles and producers and sought out experimentation. "Areu Areu", a publishing house for the offbeat, was founded, and even an opera project was driven against the wall in a grandiose manner - all in all, artistically important and financially disastrous processes in equal measure for Camouflage.
Meanwhile, the record companies backed other horses that could chase trends more quickly. That too is show business, the band thought to themselves, wiped their shoulders, continued to record unperturbed, toured the world from Russia to Mexico and steadily expanded their fan base.
You can also rely on the band Camouflage. They do not rest, they do not live in memory. They have created beautiful and powerful pieces of music for the here and now that are about us and our lives.
Text by Jan Rombout
