Back to basics ... a little journey through time

With over 33 million units sold worldwide recordings Sandra Ann Lauer heard all simply known to us only as Sandra, the most successful singers in Germany and almost half a year after her fiftieth birthday is now her long-awaited tenth Sudioalbum "Stay In Touch" on store shelves.

Like the published in May single "Maybe Tonight", which of course is also located on this album, the entire album of the successful and very likeable Cologne producer team Blank & Jones has produced.

Blank & Jones should most certainly be better known by their club sound and by their chill Relax series, but for the past 3 years, Piet Blank, Jaspa Jones & Andreas Kaufhold also deal intensively with their big puppy love, the music of the 80s, and since In 2009 she published in her so80s series now at least seven Sampler.

In this series also now seven Artist compilations of bands like OMD, Ultravox, Heaven 17, Culture Club, Billy Idol, Hubert Kah and the end of April appeared then there was also a fine assortment of maxis and remixes, as well as instrumental versions of 80's songs of Sandra.

Sandra and Blank & Jones learned in 2010 while filming the RTL Chartshow know and there was an immediate mutual sympathy, so that we again met up a short time later to a multi-day jam session in Sandra's studio on Ibiza, where all at once was that you clearly reflect which had to do together.

Whoever thinks Sandra had their music reinvented with Blank & Jones is completely wrong, because the exact opposite is the case, it has returned where they celebrated their biggest successes to their roots, the sound of the 80s, the music of the decade.

They succeeded Sandra's longtime companion Jens Gad as a songwriter and her well-known male vocal Hubert Kemmler, better known as Hubert Kah to take into the boat and get excited about this thing ... and this album does really well.

Fully listen for the first time in this album I was on Saturday, 20.10. snake standing in the music department of the Cologne department store where Sandra had gathered for an autograph session and diligently signed their new album and also brought with material and recordings from the past.
The music of the album has absolutely amazed me at first, because of the 80 touch to be found here around the ears is really huge and it's best.

In a brief chat I could keep up with Piet and Jaspa were also spot the two was also noted very quickly how much love for music of the 80's and how much enthusiasm has gone into this work that has emerged in two years of work ... and by the way you could tell the two also on how proud they (rightly) it is to have made this album on your legs with Sandra.

Appeared the single "Maybe Tonight" that, after all, was able to land at No. 77 on the charts, yet on the Blank & Jones label Soundcolours, so this album has now world of Sandra's family label EMI released.

Here, first, the tracklist of the deluxe edition with the associated seasons:

CD1 (The Original Album)
01. Stay In Touch 3:48
02. Infinite Kiss 2:51
03. Between Me & The Moon 3:22
04. Maybe Tonight 3:05
05. Moscow Nights 3:41
06. Heart Of Wax 4:15
07. Kings & Queens 3:16
08. Angels In My Head 2:55
09. Sand Heart 3:47
10. Love Starts With A Smile 3:26
11. Sun In Disguise 4:23

CD2 (The Extended Mixes)
01. Moscow Nights (Extended Version) 5:12
02. Kings & Queens (Extended Version) 6:30
03. Love Starts With A Smile (Extended Version) 5:46
04. Angels In My Head (Extended Version) 5:35
05. Stay In Touch (Extended Version) 5:48
06. Between Me & The Moon (Extended Version) 5:27
07. Sun In Disguise (Extended Version) 5:57
08. Maybe Tonight (Extended Version) 4:58
09. Infinite Kiss (Extended Version) 5:17
10. Sand Heart (Extended Version) 6:20
11. Heart Of Wax (Extended Version) 7:12

I find it difficult to highlight a particular song here, because all tracks are quite more than worth listening to, and there is actually no really weak Title I would skip while listening to the CD.
One could rather say that this album has eleven Highlights leave a relive the 80s.

Alone the interplay of the two voices of Hubert and Sandra is awesome and carries with help coming up while listening to the album Absolute 80s feel and especially the fine "Kings & Queens" reminds me even very strong at Sandra's first top hit "Maria Magdalena" ,

My whole persönlischen Favos Album are currently the opener "Stay In Touch", the single "Maybe Tonight", the "In My Head Angels" in which specially Hubert's voice comes across already mentioned "Kings & Queens" and very good, and "Love Starts With A Smile ".

First single is the song "Infinite Kiss" be that as of 2 November (so far, however, is mine knowledge, unfortunately, only a download version planned) will be available and will be offered with the following tracklist:

01. Infinite Kiss (Album Version) 2:51
02. Infinite Kiss (Hubert Kah Mix) 3:28
03. Infinite Kiss (80s Retro Mix) 4:55
04. Infinite Kiss (Ibiza Club Mix Edit) 03:55
05. Infinite Kiss (Extended Version) 05:15
06. Infinite Kiss (Ibiza Club Mix) 6:44
Bonus Track:
07. Russian Eyes 3:43

Now, I am not the ultimate Sandra fan but simply a lover of music of my youth, and from this era is not just Sandra indispensable.
I like their sound, and their kind as I find slightly naive voice (which is not now evil or negative meant my dear Sandra fans).

I am what you think I quite AIS can read out these lines, easily excited about this album that brings a return to the typical sound of the 80s and it certainly refers to the time a little turning back.

Also klanglisch here have Messrs Blank & Jones made absolutely perfect job!
The titles are excellently mastered and thus an absolute listening pleasure is one supplied.

Speziel the Extendeds as bonus tracks for me are of course the absolte Oberhammer and very thick icing on this release and turn it into something very special.

These extended versions are all in the typical style of the 80s, finely mixed and boredom also in this second CD certainly not!

Fine that one has taken the trouble here really to all tracks of the album to conjure up a maxi version, so that taken literally no song comes up short.

Now I have you but enough zugelabert (I think to below have anyway very few actually read along) and I wish all inclined listeners, especially of course the Sandra fans who had to wait three years on a new studio album, a lot of fun with this really fine album;)