A completely self-contained album

Live albums, especially in big rock stars, are all too often only camouflaged Greatest Hits couplings on which überraschungslos the career highlights are processed like. Most also played close to the original studio Arragement so the sloping mass audience is not merely irritated if the altered structure of the song.
Or is what I like to holistic concert recordings. Most at Singer-songwriters / songwriters comes out a double or even triple CD with all announcements and nuances. That's wonderful, but then has less album, more documentation character. The concert can be experienced completely canned again.

"Hottentottenmusik" is not both! No pseudo Best of and not a complete live recording. Recorded during last year's tour, here 14 songs were strung together, the result is a completely homogeneous album. Although the songs are all old acquaintances, they bloom on new and come across large parts of quite different, therefore, as you remembered them. And precisely because "Hottentottenmusik" us "Sexy", "freedom", "I'm fine", "again", "Let us live", "Not at all" etc. ersparrt, it is so rich in surprises.

The above are all wonderful songs, no doubt, not without reason, they were big hits, meaning many people very much, but the absolute size of a song like "Lichterloh", one understands a lot better because it is not only between two must-play -Hits happened. Or an incredibly snotty-rocking "Alone" unfolds so much more than if it were clamped between "Ladykiller" and "war".

So you could now track the list by going to "Hottentottenmusik", almost every song reaches a much higher intensity than the previously known studio version. Because it is live because there are brilliant musicians, because the song selection is consistent and the short, supported by applause transitions, everything together and compress.

Many of the big hits and other songs from the current album "Williamsburg" were of course on the professional tours and also recorded. That there will be omitted this on the album Songs gradually as a free download on the homepage of the album and as an accompaniment CD a future issue of Rolling Stone magazine, that should comfort those who miss them too painful.

The omission of the concept of plate was good, because only then could "Hottentottenmusik" characteristic a totally independent album are - one of the best in Western Hagens career!