Sadness, because it reminds us of the best times of HRK when he with the album "The cities look like sleeping dogs" reached the zenith of his career. Melancholy even when re-hearing of the perhaps best Kunze- song "Balcony Breakfast" - why is just too lazy, often times re-hang the big black discs?
With hope and optimism and the title of the album Taking up, with confidence, I am filled with the album music: Heinz Rudolf Kunze kann`s yet!
Kunze, accompanied only by his guitar and his partner Wolfgang Stute`s, leaves poetry to songs are, the new version of "glasses" surpasses the original studio version by far, and that can be from the other songs of recent times that in here "simple" dress to be presented, just say: less is more. And if Kunze says, "was the song before the band involved therein", then one wished for but of him the consequence that he takes in the future, the band at the curb and in the service of his lyrics, and the lyrics not can stifle porridge in acoustic rock, as happened on the last HRK Studio discs too often. Why does Heinz Rudolf Kunze necessarily be second-class rockers, if he can make first-class songs? And so the rock cover versions of "Lost Highway" and "Hey Hey, My My" the only superfluous pieces on this record, Hank Williams and Neil Young are able to do that better.
But the album is subtitled "The musical audio book", and consequently dominate "look .. The cities", the spoken texts as opposed to. The lyrics to the worth hearing also made the last studio plates of HRK despite the rape by the band were. And hearing they are here, often cynical than in the songs, they are ironic to think or laugh, and always they prove that HRK is a word artists, and especially one of the spoken word - rarely an audio book is better than a book but Kunzes word turnery awake until the presentation really live.
For me personally, the weighting word - music in "The cities look like sleeping dogs" more pledged. Who loved this album is "command confidence" but like, as anyone who liked the "early" Kunze. For the fans of the rock musician Kunze is "command confidence" likely to verbal and top-heavy.
Nevertheless 5 stars because HRK has shown that he can, if he wants to, and in the hope and confidence that he in future remembers also at his Studio drives again more on his qualities.
