Rain in his soul

Formerly every 2 years, now every 3 years in May published my longstanding songwriter Idol a new plate. A tortured smile on a usual unshaven face might scare the buyer of 61minütigen, 25th studio album. May 7 (publication date of "May rain") is usually a sunny day. I was surprised that it has this year on May 7, rained so much. The sky was specially dispensed sunshine to contribute to the Ersthörung of "Mairegen" the perfect weather?
Always Reinhard Mey was kissed in his life of happiness. Now he must sometimes rain in his soul endured, because his second son (the "giant Max") is more than a year in a vegetative state, and whether it succeeds his father, him "in the world back zulieben" as touching on the piece "dragon's blood" sings, no one knows.

Reinhard's albums are his Chronicle, his diary entries, he writes in the booklet, "like the rings of a tree, on which can be read the weather and the seasons." It converts a lot of nostalgia paths in his new texts. In several verses will lovingly look back on long past. This reflection seems to be just right at this time of his life. I've laughed this time is not expected to, although the sharp DSDS social criticism in "Larissa's dream" me an impish "Just being there!" - Drew grin on his lips.

Finally, a big but: Musically sound the new songs like the purest Recycling earlier pieces: little striking melodies; hardly sound sequences, in which one can easily love. Earlier I liked about Reinhard Mey that me his songs acoustically gave a little after I already knew by heart the text. That's when the more recent works not often the case, but after more than 40 years and hundreds of songs, it is of course not easy to get even new compositional nuances off. Mey songs draw their power from the content anyway, and the mountain of ideas, the Reinhard Mey wants to work through in his life, is in his own words a steadily growing. The source of his writing is so unlikely to dry up despite all imaginable misfortunes, and that's a good thing.