What could be so special about this album? Maybe the cover gives a good hint. One sees a Reinhard Mey, the standing looks slightly bemused at the station in the distance. Is he perhaps at the end of a trip or at the beginning? Is he looking for something or he sees something? Or he thinks just for his life? The latter could perhaps best be true. The whole album is up to 1-2 exceptions, marked by thoughtfulness, almost melancholy.
But it's also not really sad album. No, it's got a lot of gratitude. Gratitude for all that, and for all those people who enrich his life, so it actually make only. A feeling that probably every one of us knows and understands why. Each of these men has dedicated a song Reinhard Mey: either his wife, his son, his daughter, his grandson, his father. But he limited his gratitude not only to people, but moves on the circle. Such as when he describes what the music gives him that indeed constitutes its appeal (Spielmann). Or what nature means to him (Tiergarten). Even the wine gets a kind of homage from him.
Some Vorrezensenten criticize that the album would be musically unexciting, not varied enough, that somehow that would "Above the Clouds" missing "earwigs" like. I do not like to judge a musical layman. But perhaps it is even the strength of the album. Because thus it acts for me as a unified whole - as a self-contained unit. No song "pushes" the right to no one "hidden". Yes you can hear the 17 songs in succession like one big song - a beautiful song, a heartrending song which then flows quietly and evenly and want to take the listener on a journey from the daily grind.
