Purple Schulz has first produced this album on your own. Most of the songs it emerged together with his wife Eri, and for the recordings have won many fellow musicians and singers in the studio. The result compensated fully for 15 years waiting period: 14 incredible songs with passion and depth, each of which already at first listen leaves a lasting impression.
An absolute highlight there at the very beginning with the opener "I have made fire", a wonderful plea for creativity and courage, which opens into a joy of living just as scintillating final chorus. As is to try and push directly on the Repeat button, but also the following ballad "Gone is gone," interprets the separation as an opportunity for a fresh start, taking a quick capture.
That you as a listener in any song remains indifferent, is mainly because that Purple Schulz himself dares to complex and unconventional topics and converts music extremely successful. As is the lively popular song "can happen to us nothing" sarcastic practiced with the support of Heinz Rudolf Kunze social criticism, and "question mark", the Schulz still wrote with Joseph Piek, sensitively portrays the life of an Alzheimer's patient's perspective. "For what?" is the desperate cry of a stricken father who finds himself at the party his teenage kids, and "in total darkness" the somewhat darker Purple Schulz variant of the theme of "I've never been to New York".
Especially under the skin goes "The Thin Wall", which describes the sudden transition from seemingly controlled normality in pathological madness, which is musically impressively manifested by initially untermalende and then dramatically enhancing strings. Similarly, touching is the quiet "on the ground", a song written by Dania King that it sings in duet with Schulz here. Even more female support gets the singers by the way of Christina Lux with "secret" or Regy Clasen in the ballad "A Short History of the end of a great love" and the mutmachenden "mirrors".
Profound content can of course also pack in rousing songs such as "We all have something to say" proves or "So it does not make fun," a scathing reckoning with fanatical and misunderstood religion in any form. At the end, but it is again very softly, when Schulz himself "The last case" on moving and comforting manner in dealing with the topic of death. A fitting conclusion to one of the best German-language albums of the year!
