Everything started when I woke up one morning with blood on my hands.
You can say it was sort of a baptism for the religiously challenged. If it wasn't for that summer mid afternoon, you wouldn't be reading this or listening to `wer Next Projekt.' There have been other epiphanies: Like realizing that an entire year was a product of my imagination and never happened. If we ever meet, ask me about the above mentioned and I'll tell you the full story.
My career as someone who does art for a living is about 4 years old. All the time before that I was dicking around in local bands going through the motions and drama that every band entails. After the demise of my last group, enduring a blood feast of a break up with an insignificant other, and being piss broke, I lost it. Rather, the beginning of losing it. In the late spring of 1999 I created my first solo work called `Orchid.'
Done on what little equipment I had, it was a raw and honest piece of work. My first experience with honesty. I sent out a few cassettes to some friends, and from there it sprawled across the globe. It never really got press of any kind, but people knew about it. It was like a bomb that went off and no one heard it, but they all saw the effects.
It's hard to gauge the popularity. It was written under a different name other than Christopher and I lived a very solitary life. VERY solitary life. More like a prison. A prisoner in my own head. I cannot really recall 1999, the only moment of clarity I have of that year is that I knew I wrote `Orchid' and I found the beginning of my path. Every so often fragments come in to reveal how horrific it all was. If `Orchid' was the exorcism of demons, `wer Next Projekt' would be the sonic key out of my prison.
`wer Next Projekt'
`wer Next Projekt' is a blend of beauty and brutality. Crushing guitars, tribal percussion, exotic voices, electronica, and some classical composition for good measure. The most common phrases people call the music is: `Pantera meets Enigma/Dead Can Dance' or `What the hell is this? I can't even describe it!' The latter, I think is a good thing.