The first of the three previously released albums of Sophie Hunger I got to know from more or less random reasons last. It has been known, received in-house production at her home in Zurich. The production-related contrast to Monday's Ghost and 1983 is of course heard. Sophie Hunger has appeared on the occasion of the Spring 2010 1983 themselves pointed out that it has at that time did not worry about where a microphone was placed. From her skirt qualities here reflects only the initial fragment of The Tourist (full version on Monday's Ghost). For this you will benefit from being able to hear Sophie Hunger equal to four times on Swiss German, the language of which she says that she speak only as to 100%, and in which they could best tell the truth while singing. Still, there is not the dream team Fleury / Prader / hunger to admire, though not by chance the booklet Note: Meet my Breathtaking, lovely companions "!
Already on Sketches on Sea everything is included (not only in the core), which distinguishes Sophie Hunger and her music:
- Your voice that finds the right tone for each piece: clarity widespread warming, energetic will, over bubbling, takes back the Kangfärbe changes, search for the next word, the next syllable is on sobriety, tenderness risks to vulnerable than makes, by disclosing feelings.
- Your Art to write melodies, their full beauty opens up with repeated listening, sing where you start until the third, fourth time and only creates passages as; where the places where you might think at first, "oh, now it is but arg artistic value" does not act as party poopers, but indispensable part of the whole are; Melodies that are making their way and hit the target, changes in brain, stomach, heart and leave you.
- Your ability to write texts in which there are no superfluous words that describe briefly and precisely, analyze, reflect; Have courage, to designate what divides you from the, the other; the issue, which it sees reasons for hope; who dare to make a single line the whole thing has been said above it again in question, to turn into its opposite ("We Might Be Wrong", "Helsinki Running for Life" "but this is not Nashville") that before it is too This clearly and definitively will intersperse a set, at its ambiguity, difficulty of understanding I teeth ausbeisse me ("Züri").
- That they do not even try to hide respect for, love for his idols, genres, without being caught out at the thought, "Oh, now she tries to jazz, country, blues, folk ...". At the end there are always unmistakable Sophie hunger songs. Perhaps especially touching as the single cover Walter Liethas "Dia-propelled" appropriates itself.
- At the same time to be with conviction Weltenbürgerin and Swiss, in the knowledge that the identity of a country in flux remains and even one of the wheels, take it influence.
- Her humor, her ability to laugh at yourself, knowing that she is not the center of the world. (And to wrap this irony again as clever statement about their position as a Swiss citizen of the world, "Before you say ...)
-Your Joy of the talents with which it is blessed (her happiness about what the music makes her own), the causes can be seen radiate their eyes while listening.
Strange that there are actually people out there who hold that prevented Swiss Abfahrsseriensiegerin for shy.
