"I have longed so for you ...

... Finally you're back. "For the meeting of -Sehnsucht- I just steal me some old Hoffmann-lines that are burned into my mind. From the first day of his career, we were there. 1975-1996 were the years where the music did not go with me much without Hoffmann. The rebel and gentle novelist, actor and chansonnier had struck me full in the spell. But then it was over. Hoffmann invented no longer himself. His albums were still okay, but somehow for me only reproductions of old pieces. So we parted ways. However ran albums like -Westend- or -What I catch on in this city still in my player. Now so it should go back to basics again. I was tense after repeated listening of desire is clear. That's still not quite the "old" Hoffmann But it must also not be Times are changing, but is opposed to a whole series, in my opinion, edgeless albums... -Sehnsucht- a wonderful step back, the Hoffmanns brings music back far forward. -Sehnsucht- Recalls the creative phase Hoffmann around the album -Sänger- from 1993. Anyway, I'm thrilled a large chunk of my life to have you back on the side and hope that by working Hoffmann back to the very bottom to his roots ...

Playing tips: -You do me good-is a loosely lilting song, the so actually have only the French plan. Hoffmann has the easy on pocket. The titular -Sehnsucht- flows melancholic and moving out of the speakers. -Riccione- Could have a place on any Hoffmann album from the 80s. Just beautiful. Only a piano and Hoffmann voice that is -Gestern-. Thoughtful, gentle, poetic and takes with pictorial text a -What we are and how we trade in goods with. A brilliant piano hook line makes -The simple things- a big song. If there is a song on -Sehnsucht- that a "new" Hoffmann represents, it is -I dream me back to you, the Hoffmann breathed brokenly into the microphone. -It All starts again on other recalls melodic -My path. However, this number is not bad, because the song is in spite of the similarity to Hoffmann's classic succeeded wonderfully. The rest of the songs on the album does not fall in terms of class.

I hate this sentimental "Once upon -number" to have to deliver. Actually, I want to hear new music, like no songs that are stored under the heading "Oldie". But what can you do when an a singer does not let go for decades? The Klaus Hoffmann from my younger years I have missed for a long time. When I heard -Sehnsucht-, I knew only again how much I was missing that voice and how much I have longed ...