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In order to shorten the time to the new album (working title: "And Into The Room") a bit, I-M-R will release, out-of-line and unplanned, a mini album with 8 tracks, which were recorded especially for a "music audiobook project". And adequate to this project, I-M-R are indeed unusually disciplined this time concerning the musical style. The otherwise so favoured mix of different styles of dark and new wave retreated behind the task of creating a coherent mood that would do justice to the underlying short story of loss, guilt and atonement. The results are melancholic reflective songs, bedded on acoustic guitars and soft electronics, and always close to intimacy. "Follow The Ruins EP" now assembles 80% of the recordings prepared as a selection pool for the final 4 - 5 audio book songs. And which also work without the literary partner due to their character...

» In 2018, while reading Philipp Schulze's manuscript "Der Jungbrunnen" (The Fountain of Youth), the idea to turn this romantic story into a kind of audio book with songs arose spontaneously. Together with the author and the favoured narrator, we started to develop the corresponding concept. But, as often happens, different things kept coming up (relocation, marriage, other commitments etc.), which delayed the progress of the project considerably. And because the end was still not foreseeable in mid-2019 and the work on the new album stalled a bit, we decided to bundle the majority of the songs recorded so far (a total of 11 songs were created) on an EP and release them without any literary framework. In the hope that they make sense on their own - in one way or another... «