New, different, compelling!

It may in the past forty years ever even successful singers and musicians in Germany gave as Marianne Faithfull, since it with just 15 years languished in 1970 her longing hymn to Paul McCartney. However, even this first single was backed up with a very cool bass line (clear, it finally was all about McCartney) and a total original, detail-arranged, as the most extreme things which then marched up at DTHeck in the hit parade. Although in its early days, of course, others were responsible more for concept and sound Herself, she succeeded over the decades, to sound in each of their varied creative phases always relevant, the zeitgeist of the respective pop music usually a nose ahead of without to bend or to run the risk of ridicule.
If one surveys the entire time course of their career so far, were probably almost always some fellow commercially successful, the greatest artist but that most changeable, the most uncompromising, the most stable, was in this country about the decades, Marianne Faithfull.

Time Slip, 2013: a few weeks ago Cher released her new album and it is long and wide reported. Page long article on the cultural pages of the daily press, TV coverage, great show appearances. For what? For an abundant dispensable, highly professional piece endoptimierter meter. Even Cher succeeded for a long time a skillful evolution within the pop genre. Entertainment in the best sense of the word, always in tune with the times, good for 30 years. One look at the cover of the new album but suffice and part 1 of the tragedy is revealed. It is legitimate that you want to stay visually attractive also in the older - and that can also succeed! However, not so! A 67-year old, the massively filtered from computers, smoothed, retouched and redesigned presented as its own model for Madame Tussauds, made according to his purpose: never more than 30, textilarm and lascivious. And the record sounds, tragedy part 2 how to please a desperate attempt Incidentally 20th-Radiopophörern. Of artistic relevance no trace statement anyway. (The comparison with Cher offered itself simply because Marianne Rosenberg 1999 Chers then current hit "Strong enough" adapted and now almost the same time as new albums from both appear)
And even Madonna, which was to demonstrate the power of self-evident the late nineties already well on the way that are older and remain relevant in pop music are naturally compatible, the role of power in recent years backwards and presents itself as bouncing Cheerleader, the now was for the 35th time twenty - congratulations!

And Marianne Rosenberg? She succeeds apparently playing, bringing the two ladies so schwertun Stars. They perfected the artist, certainly a bit the diva - to say nothing of Rosenberg, is now absolutely appropriate - you panting no Jugendwahn afterwards, also maintains not just the achievements of past epochs, but always invents new modern music from her inner self out.

The new project "Shadow Heart" together with Dirk Riegner has nothing in common with '70s teen in the early, nothing in between the big pop hits in the' 90s and all. Flirting with elements of electro-pop is for Rosenberg not really new, "Shadow Heart - Life is Beautiful" but falls completely and consistently in this genre.
Even her last in 2011 published under your name album "Rain rhythm" was dominated by the finest ambient pop, enriched with lyrical and remarkable texts. "Rain rhythm" was sensual, tender, thoughtful. Now under the project name Schattenherz dominated more of coolness, strength, energy, but still deep and profound texts and never cheap disco tramp.

Anyone who (like me) prefers played manually music naturally warps, at the announcement of an electric affinity album initially suspicious eyebrows. All too often only a soulless standard beat are in this genre simply turned, pushed a few hard hip ultra-hip effects over it, given a vocal melody, in which can boast every nursery rhyme with highly complex composition compared and to fabricated a text that also intellectually capable to interpret nor any idiot in a drunken stupor. None of this has happened here!
The creative duo Rosenberg / Riegner created a convincing symbiosis of art and catchiness of claim and of course - in text and music!
Up to the cover design of the deluxe edition - album and bonus Single stuck in a large, opaque, deep black envelope from solid, reclosable film - was here holistic thought, spun and converted with much love and dedication.

This project album Marianne Rosenberg invents again from scratch, for I know not the umpteenth time since 1970. And it is thus once again convincingly and credibly. If that outstanding "rain rhythm" already did not like, is here hardly follow her. And even that is not the first time in her career that she released an album in the knowledge that you will get lost many followers of earlier songs. But they always discover something new and different listeners. That's "Shadow Heart" to desire and Marianne Rosenberg basically the attention and appreciation as brave, nonconformist, varied artist who has always been and still more is what they shared with Dirk Riegner once again impressively proves with this album.