An album like a vacation trip through Europe

A long time he has taken his time, but things come to those who wait well. So also Villa Contrabband, the long-awaited full-length album after the terrific appetizer The Yellow Rose of Desmond Myers. After hard and intensive studio work of musicians has refilled a stylistically complex album. Inspiration gathered the musicians during his European Street Gig tour that led him in 2012 by Europe. So he hoofed it through Italy, France and Spain, played countless gigs and benefited, among other things as a coach surfer from lifestyle, way of life and the musical culture of the locals. His impressions and experiences had great influence on the songwriting, so Villa Contrabband sounds colorful europe. Not only because of the enormous variety of styles Desmond Myers would have based on the Villa Kunterbunt no more fitting album title can choose.

Already the opener Cats of Rome with his italo English text heralds a multicultural musical journey of coming from North Carolina singer and raises Italian flair. Good Morning Portugal, with its rousing Rappassagen and is insinuating into the ear canals and there festbeißenden chorus is like a little sunrise on the Portuguese Atlantic coast and clearly shows that Desmond Myers has matured musically and yet his style, different elements of music together to connect, has remained faithful. He skilfully combines rock, pop, hip-hop, chanson, flamenco and classical music, delivering a fusion of the styles from, which can not be pigeonholed.

Death of an English poet is a typical Desmond Myers Track, the drawer thinkers might be a nightmare: Multilingual Lyriks that are carried forward sung and rapped, and a flamenco chanson mixture comprising a central part, of degenerates storm in a short hip-hop. But everything fits together here and sounds of a piece! You have to stop to deal intensively with the music of the now living in Paris Songwriters and one discovers always new small details.

Very rock is what If I should die tomorrow to the point, during the subsequent The Money Waltz seems very strange with his waltz accompaniment and the Rap parts on the first run, but after repeated listening reveals its qualities. Who would have thought that Walzer and rap can so beautiful harmony. Vegas Atlantic, however, turns out very poplastig and adds the album adds another facet.

Musical support is Desmond in Sebastian Braun, who adds great basslines and some keyboard parts, as well as drummer John Preßl.

Conclusion: If you first immersed in the music of the singer, it is nearly impossible to get the melodies and soundscapes from the head. This is not even necessary, since the music is holiday for the senses. Myers plays really with harmony and symbiosis of sound and poetry. Each of the 13 songs is like a beautifully landscaped holiday postcard, a custom note of the musical journey of the musical genius.