Made clear: Manuellsen M. Bilal Soul Edition

Manuellsen has no desire to rap. At least he does not want to stiffen it, but lies dormant for quite a while, another passion in the heart of 33-year-old German with Ghanaian roots: Rhythm and Blues. For six years now Manuellsen supplies the local Raplandschaft with a good amount of Soul and is certainly also in your favorite rappers favorite rapper at # 1 Hookservice stored in the phone. This expertise comes naturally not overnight: already exchanged as 17-year-old youngster Emanuel Twellmann, so the real name, for various Dutch R & B artist his skills as a ghost writer to the black in the account. The own singing skills built Emanuel, driven by bands such as Jagged Edge and Boyz II Men, over the years more and more of. From the great desire to finally publish a pure Soul music, Manuellsen talking for some time, was first announced M.Bilal Soul Edition two years ago as a direct counterpoint to his 2010 published Rap Album M.Bilal was 2010. Despite the delays the constellation for this labor of love may never better than in 2012: the two darlings of the blogosphere universe The Weeknd and Frank Ocean have set it to bring in the last few months everything themselves the average hip hop Otto R & B again close and, more importantly than that, back cool to make. At one time it seemed to be the most normal thing in the world to perform the otherwise than homoerotic whining straight from the tin scorned genre alongside hardcore evergreens like Mobb Deeps The Infamous on his iPod. Somehow even the most ignorant Rapnazi has already played with the idea in the darkest hours but then to tuck his (ex-) Pearl in the trunk and let the truck drive into the vastness of the ocean then. After Hipsterfutter as Jamie Woon, The Weeknd and James Blake, this may now also look for a similar type, which makes use of the German language out one or the other eye. When would be a better time, if not now?

Thematically is set to M. Bilal Soul Edition clearly the feminine species at the center. Be there. On the already well-known knife wound on which the emergency has to give also the belief in Allah short time when the woman's honor is at stake On Toxic, on the Manuellsen the oblique Ex-pearl, with the support of a good-humored MoTrip, the first of May the happy times John shows. Or if the now almost traditional night shift range with night shift 2.5 continues and Manuellsen operates finest Sextalk a minimalist but extremely effective Juhdee production. The Women's topics are for R & B so not at all uncommon, but does little variety in the form of paradise (which turns out to be remake of Phil Collins Another Day in Paradise) and to whom you belong? the plate quite well.

Now it is in the official press release to M.Bilal Soul Edition: Everything you could find on soul or R & B albums so far, who came from Germany, is bypassed here targeted and replaced by an international 2012er sound [...] This statement unfortunately is not quite the truth. Of course the production date are on page (color = minimalist drums mixed with the preference for Hall) as well as not-so-current (fly = typical synth-808-banging) trends adapted, but is here entered into a well-known case: the soundscape the plate acts as the menu of a restless globetrotter who has just beaten by all the cuisines of the world. When putting together the crème de la crème he is ultimately completely torn between the sensual soul food of the southern states and the magical spices of Thai cuisine, so that he can ultimately simply decides to stake everything on the map. If the press release so by an international 2012er sound is talk, I have to think about in 2012 still very sought after sound pattern of The Weeknds personally. Three mixtapes Abel Tesfaye has now been published that sound each thoughtful in their overall appearance as they might. To a large extent this is due to the consistent sound image good dose minimalism, orgiastic Wobblebass and diverse sample references that have impressed the 22-year-old child Toronto producers Jeremy Rose, Doc McKinney and Illangelo.

But Tesfayes textual stringency of Sex, Drug Moments and the egocentric Lucifer in the skull, the happy times attracts the lyric I to the dark side of power and it can bring little, innocent girl on drugs, only to then to wallow in self-pity missed, the Internet-mystery The Weeknd his very individual touch. Where we at criticism Numero Two were: the lyrics. Mind can be compared to when singing rap does not have to come more quickly to the point long talk about the bush, but. Each set has to sit practically and convey what you really want to say Manuellsen gave in an interview right on record, however, he manages not often translate this wisdom into practice. Creating instead a clear, consistent images that require an individual, reduced to a minimum choice of words, Manuellsen lost like in flat lines that are, contrary to the claims of the press release, certainly could have desöfteren found on the German soul and R & B works , Here is an excerpt from his friends:

Maybe it's wrong right /
but I'll tell you what happened, it's worth a look /
because it feels so good /
Girl, we could have as much /
but then starts again the shit /
and every day always the same

Sorry buddy, but that's just not enough and schmählert over long distances the overall impression. Positive is the Song colors in mind, on the Manuellsen manages to have a clear concept and a clever implementation. The lasting images that captivate the listener and bring the goosebumps of horror, are still a long way off.

Of course I can not know if this ever Manuellsens and house producer Juh-Dee had ambitions to produce such a dense disk, especially since The Weeknd in German does not have to work forcibly or ever a guarantee is given that after a German adaptation even the slightest rooster crows. However, I would have felt in the artistic sense as challenging power, if Manuellsen his personal diamonds polished a little more and all the R & B events in Germany would thus strengthened his own stamp on. Thus M. Bilal Soul Edition turns rather than background music for a cozy round in the Shisha Café confidence or to usher in the finest manner Baluscher the Schubidoo (BIE) time instead of as addictive emotion thunderstorms with depth and individuality. Whether this conclusion ultimately would negatively interpret, remains a matter of taste. Probably sounds all this nagging worse than it is in truth, for M. Bilal Soul Edition is a good album. Schade is solely the fact that the existing air has not been used up. On the technical craft It would not be a failure with safety.

Casper may be right when he claims that everyone would celebrate when it would take place in America. Whether the general public in Germany is ready for M.Bilal Soul Edition or whether it ultimately pushes a little too much at the shimmering Straßenrap by affinity (eg Vlachos guest appearance on knife wound), remains to be seen. What is certain is that Manuellsen has hereby placed another rustic, albeit expandable foundation for his career, which will open up new listeners and certainly saturate the old Hookservice-charmers now.