Johannes Falk told with his songs stories about life. This he does with the usual of him melancholy, but at the same time a powerful shot hope is inherent. The songs are full of pictures, very quickly there is set a certain mental cinema, when you hear the disc. So it is no CD, you can hear so incidentally.
My current favorite tracks are "The Last", which is about new hope for failure and Bruchpiloten and "The Old Man and the Sea". Here a sailor describes the waiting for a long time that he was picked up from his ship which takes him beyond the horizon. In release concert Johannes Falk said that he wrote this song for his father, who is advanced in years dying, waiting for his death - but if you follow the song, not the end means, but only a great trip to a other place.
The textual depth is to the music in nothing. The album is produced by John Falk together with Florian Sitzmann (a member of the Sons of Mannheim), who was in charge even in the "pilgrimage". The band's usual top notch - Andreas Mette on guitar, David Mette on drums (known by the Philip Poisel Band), Christoph Carl on bass, Florian Sitzmann and Johannes Falk on keyboards, added real strings and horns. The band is to experiment, create sound pictures, the sound is modern. Above all hovers the hammer voice of John Falk.
One is inclined to a new disk with attributes "sounds like ...." is necessary. And so you try that too at this album, and in my ears I hear sometimes a bit Beatles, Herbert Grönemeyer, Mutemath ... the flies but quite fast and I will end here: it sounds especially like John Falk. Lovely, too, that he did not try to copy the successful pilgrimage, but it is a significant development, it sounds fresh, it sounds more mature.
Conclusion: a great album, which is still often found in my CD player, and I can only recommend. And who has the possibility of Johannes Falk looks at live. Live is all a bit more rock, and I've rarely seen a tape in which none of the musicians playing in the foreground, and not a musician sounds arbitrary or interchangeable.
Playing tips:
3) The last
4) The Old Man and the Sea
7) Everything flows
10) I'll build us a new world