Goethe Plagued? Storm Damaged? So I'm probably not alone. In German class we went to memorization and interpretation according to a preset scheme. However, I had a key experience when I heard Ina Seidel's "Rain ballad" in the version of Achim Reichel years ago. So scary I had never heard. Reichel, in the sixties Frontman the only significant German Beat band, opened in the seventies the access to literature, for me had no teacher can inspire. In his new album, he was guided by his passion for ballads classics: "In the language of our great old poet lives a spirit that has real magic." Since water spirits have their dead king in Mummelsee to the grave, drowned sailors take otherworldly contact with the survivors on, we hear the bells of the sunken city of Vineta, elemental beings as the "Nix" to approach the inhabitants of a disenchanted world. My favorite song: "Belshazzar". In a kind of Oriental rock, the voice sonorous, with hanseatic accent, Reichel takes over, what is involved in Heine: megalomania and the problem of "gods in human form"
