If a singer can suddenly hear from you after a long time, there is, however, not unusual that a shudder as can the listener. Often enough you had a sobering fact that a once beautiful voice had become brittle over the years and had lost its luster. Not so with Chris Doerk! You can still sing gorgeous and skilful use of her voice. The crystal clear, unmistakable timbre that even from songs like "On narrow, quiet paths", "Hang the moon in the trees", "This is getting more and more beautiful", "The Rose of Chile", "The barrier", "A Snow falls at night "," The Hammock "," beetle Tango "," Not a single day I give her "or" The memory remains "in this same memory lingers, has remained. And it is now enriched by dark, warm, velvety tones that could not even have the young Chris in the degree decades ago as they are today. Here sings a mature woman, and it is truly a great pleasure to listen to her singing. In their typical, distinctive way of interpreting has absolutely not changed. The cheeky, tomboyish - as in the sixties popular songs "How do you know who I am", "What experience" or "men who are not yet" - they still rules as if those "Hot Summer" only just come to an end - and not even 44 years ago. And when she sings ballads, her voice is still able to move you to tears today.
The songs on this new CD are very versatile in style to. From a relaxed atmosphere to deep melancholy, and more, making an album good, varied and worth listening to. Chris Doerk sings not just anybody, but very personal songs here, already shown by the fact that all texts are taken from her pen, with one exception. And that it dominates the text densities at a very high poetic level, it has already demonstrated in 1973 with the song "Empty beach", which is part of the repertoire of her then husband Frank Sinatra. They also called for three songs of this new album as a composer.
The yearning opener is "from an island so far away" with his Spanish guitar and the castanets obviously a tribute to Chris Doerks second homeland Cuba, where she was a long time getting back on the road and found a lot of friends, such as in her memoir "La casita "is to be read. Go deep into the heart and under the skin, the songs "memory" and "Marie". The latter is an affectionate love letter to a little girl "with braids thin as filaments". A Hit and absolutely radio friendly is the theme song "Just a Summer Love" - a floating piece of electropop that Chris Doerk quasi catapulted into the modern era and certainly fits really well with her. Quite simply irresistible and totally sweet is the "love song for a cat". Whoever finds words like "For some it is just an animal, for me, the other part of me" or "She is the Queen in the house, to be honest with a small blemish, almost a debacle, her friend is - 'ne Maus" which must be a real Katzennarr really. And that Chris Doerk also with 70, still bears the fun-loving, bubbly, lively and cheerful and cheeky girl she once was in itself, you can hear very well in songs like "Be a Clown" and "Show your teeth". There is also with "Holiday" a hearty rock 'n' roll and the refreshing feel-good songs "Come with me to the sea", "I have to again get out", "Yes, love," and "summer holidays", the distribute any depression reliably in gray November. All this is - as opposed to the now often customary quirk, overloading music productions with instruments and effects and patch up to a sonic mush - embedded in clear, transparent, partly minimalist arrangements that allow the voice much space to unfold and the supporting element to be the music.
Conclusion: A hundred percent successful album, which was produced with love and audible at a high level and with its originality offers a welcome change in the tiresome monotony of German music everyday. Chris Doerk is back - and how! Whoever her new album sounds once, no longer comes rid of it. Promised.
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