"Understanding means simplyfying." (D. Strogow) The Shockwave Riders are: BURN +++ vocals, guitars, pandaemonium, bagpipe SKYE +++ vocals, synthesizer, accordion, acoustic drums HISTORY We have quite a long musical past in common - from childhood on we enchanted the neighbourhood with our famous glockenspiel-adaptations of "mole of Kintyre". Nightly saxophone improvisations, violin studies, clarinet and flute duos and more general studies on "how to get sounds out of everything that can't run away" followed. A little later our roads parted. Skye studied Popular Music (piano and vocals) at the Music University of Hamburg and played in a couple of (metall-)bands. Meanwhile Burn shouldered her guitar and went to Great Britain for some years and later to Ireland, where she performed in a number of folk formations. Then, in 2001 we founded our band SHOCKWAVE RIDERS and swore each other eternal high fidelity. Since then nothing could scare us anymore, except maybe our government and the thought that our music might not be played loud enough. "The Music has to be played loud, so we don't hear the world collapse" (Common Knowledge) MUSIC Keyboards, guitar and the two immensely expressive voices create deeply emotional music, that spirits the listener away into shimmering parallel worlds between noisy walls of sound and folky elegance. The SHOCKWAVE RIDERS sing of love and betrayal, of hope and desparation, of the greed for money and fame, and of great deeds done silently, where noone applauds. And they sing of the yearning for a world afar, where all humans are one. Because songs are legends and we need them, so that the soul can live on.