It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, as Heinz Rudolf Kunze and guitarist Heiner Lürig met the mid-eighties to one another. And soon the friendship was not only wonderful but also powerful successful because Lürig wrote Kunzes eloquent texts tunes on the body that opened the rock literati the door in the upper regions of the German charts - "You are my heart" is . only one of many examples, but 17 years, 17 albums and more than 1,000 performances later Heinz Rudolf Kunze suddenly felt his age and drew consequences: "When you're mid-40s, then comes a sometime to think that you have only one life and maybe but should still try something new. " Buoyed by this recognition prescribed Kunze his backing band, which he called "reinforcement" called for years, a fresh-zellenkur and examined in Franz Plasa also still the same a new producer - not a bad direction decision because Kunze has never been better than on his latest album the meaningful title "tailwind". That a lot of joy is in the panel, is primarily the merit of the new team: "Here instrumentalists were at work who have not grown up with the Kinks or the Who, but with U2 and REM," says the musician also his new producer. hath done to him respectfully acknowledges Kunze that Franz Plasa who has become known for his work with the bands real and Selig, thanks to its "thundering presence in the studio," the band under control have had. "Franz is not discussed - a quick glance , and the musicians know what he wants. That was sometimes telepathically, almost magical, "says the singing Germanist Despite Plasa firmer leadership sounds Kunze on." Tailwind "familiar:" Somehow I'm someone who is irrepressible. " This is especially true of course for the texts again egg nen fundus contain at witty neologisms: Heinz Rudolf Kunze sings from his horse and athlete's foot from hell doubt, he discovers the migraine fist and wireless communications. In filigree ar-ranged title track, which comes creeping on-as if in slow motion on silent feet, he makes an example amorous verses: "I am your grand prize winner, I have with you the drawn Hopeless" - the longing sings her song Far more. Puzzles stuck in "Prophet", the second Kunze ballad of the album, the voluptuous indulges in an overdose of pathos: Kun-ZES current statement to artist existence is full of abstract pictures and can thus charge with all sorts of meaning. "Accomodat-cal and anguish" - even the Messiah comes into play: "A Je-sus, which is not to pin down, can never win" ... the course, we have heard in church. But Kunze can be different. He shows the best piece of the plate, "Because we have to," wrote the music for the National Gallery owner Niels Frevert. Driven by outrageously youthful percussion rhythms that fall here and there out of control, learn Frevert's guitar in this light-footed rock song fly. And the Singer makes his figure it out: "At some point fall to the eyes and go with the sun back to" ... one can say it better? Almost as gripping is "between us", the story of the "prettiest Klofrau between Frankfurt and Giessen". Here are the "gain" especially in the chorus powerful gas while Kunze himself omits how defenseless one can be when love strikes like lightning: "She smiled like a constellation when I gave her the Euro ... I want to 'developing the sweet unknown pathogens ". Too bad that it - among other highlights as the relaxed "I sit so because" or spiced with a lot of groove considerations for "recreation area" - also some superficialities on "tailwind" is, "Kunze light" so to speak: "Well and good," and the single "Open" belong to - songs without fiber, which are likely to quickly fall into oblivion. Nevertheless, the wind, the Heinz Rudolf Kunze recently felt in the back, blowing in the right direction.
