Caine

Story

This concept album tells the story of Caine - a famous rock star who survives a fatal car accident. Caine falls in a coma and goes through a near death experience. After his recovery his personality has changed totally. He expresses his new spirituality in the lyrics of his songs and becomes the spearhead of a movement whose gaol is an undogmatic spirituality that bridges the gap between religions, science and philosophy. But a minority of his followers regards him as the new Messiah and they exploit him for their crusade against tolerance and freedom of worship. As he defies them they send an assassin who kills Caine. After his death his vision of a reconciliation of world religions, philosophy and science seems to fulfil, but the open-end question of the story is: is Caine's way the right one or will his ideas - as many spiritual revelations before - lead to intolerance, persecution of dissidents and at least religious wars?

Credits

Roland Enders: Composed the music, wrote the lyrics, played and programmed all instruments, mixed and mastered the album, created the art work and worked as a speaker and singer on some tracks.
Claudia Salzig (as storyteller): vocals
Nikolas Mews (as Caine): vocals

Track list

DISK ONE 01 - OUVERTURE 02 - CAINE 03 - THE LAST PERFORMANCE 04 - INTERLUDE: THE ACCIDENT 05 - THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING DEAD 06 - COMA 07 - INTERLUDE: METAMORPHOSIS 08 - THE MESSAGE 09 - INTERLUDE: THE MOVEMENT

DISK TWO 10 - CREDO 11 - INTERLUDE: THE CAINEISTS 12 - THE SCHISM 13 - INTERLUDE: THE CONFRONTATION 14 - ASSASSIN 15 - INTERLUDE: THE TEMPEST 16 - THE VICTORY (HYMN) BONUS TRACKS: 17 - STEELDANCER 18 - IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN 19 - FOR YOU

Audio samples

Some of them are them original mixes, others are new mixes who will appear on the reissue.