Dieter without trash and with many beads

Actually Dieter is already for so long that he can no longer be seen as a pop cover band leader and the whole project as a pastiche. Instead, the pop albums of Dieter Thomas Kuhn have turned into pop Classics 2k12 latest after his first "last" concert more. Here But while many think of adaptations with stomping bassline on Ballermann-samplers, erweisst the music of Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band the originals the honor not to shred but new produce in good sound with analog instrumentation.
This can be said about all the past albums of Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band. It can, however, also a big difference from his first albums notice: it lacks the live-fire. Even in the studio shooting on Gold jumped a counter the energy of the live concerts. And my personal opinion sounds Dieters great voice somewhat melancholy, serious and present on the album a little too quiet.

Now for "Here life".
Optical: more than 3 stars.
The 8-page booklet (incl. Cover and Back Cover) consists exclusively of the images of a single photo session (similar to the cover picture) - no texts, band info, live photos. Thanks to the band and acquaintances, etc. can be found difficult to read in the inlay of the CD case. Especially album as a download, you could have imagined a little more loving, more personal physical CD. After it already gave Digipacks (CD cases made of cardboard) or cover with gold embossing, this album seems cheap. Just as the project Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band of living, close to celebrate with the fans, a little more informative booklet or a CD insert would have been great.

Song selection: 5 stars.
The party is over, now follows the beautiful part. The CD has a great selection of hit-kept secrets - or better to songs that have not already heard about. "The devil and the young man" and "Marleen" are the most well known numbers, but also all the other pieces you have either heard before, or would be they endlcih to discover. Personally, I went with the rediscovery of "If you were the Sun" and "Something inside me was sad" (Killing me softly in German) that way. Especially the quieter songs fit very well to the above already mentioned more melancholy voice of Dieter. But with songs like "Here life is", "I'll come back to Amarillo", "Hi neighbor", "I stand so as to Disco", "Marleen" and of course "Night Fever" is momentum in the drive - without but about to become euphoric.

Musically: 4 stars.
Not every piece, but remarkably like a red thread, the (70S) disco sound moves through the CD. This is not Dieter gene Ballermann, but recalls that even Marianne Rosenberg and band or sometimes Udo Jürgens and other Discosound brought into the hit. This topic is dedicated to the CD, an already noticeable in the first piece. However, the arrangements are not all in the same style. "If I were a book of life" but also "Hello neighbor" are quiet and quick example for non-disco-pieces.
However, the sound is not as thick and phat over, as it was then bands like ABBA or the BeeGees (of which he is covering yes Night Fever) managed, and how it should not be a problem today. Just such a seasoned band would have - relative to earlier albums - can do better. Instead, the album sounds for me personally to digital sound has too little depth. For this I would find the voice Dieters can be mixed something progressive, since for years he wears this kind of music.
Conclusion: The disco numbers are too shallow, the other "band-pieces" are produced audible nicer Dieters voice is me through too much in the background.

Overall conclusion:
Who Dieter Thomas Kuhn likes anyway, who buys the album and it will also have fun. But more could have been expected: Booklet and sound. But above all hovers the one hand, the nostalgic joy that Dieter repeatedly brings yet another album and in this way "new" old hit that one so not had on the screen to find. Toll is also the intonation and the gentle New Interpretationenen.

Who Dieter Thomas Kuhn once disliked Wegend the trash factor, which can venture at the latest on this album a new trial, because it is precisely the selection of songs off the popular song makes the CD a nice German-language album with one exception: "Night Fever".

The album lacks any trash, folly or exaggeration. In this respect, leads the cover image is something missing, but entsprocht just the fictional character Dieter Thomas Kuhn.

Buy recommendation, if a price around 12 euros to get is.