'Elemente' comes after 'Flüchtige Küsse', which was released in 2020.We had seen concerts with the chamber music ensemble before but this is a whole CD in this style. And it is brilliant! I heard it should have been a live CD but because of Corona it was recorded without an audience. Whydid you decide to record a CDwith this ensemble and whyshould it have been a live recording? Goethes Erben has always been a strong live band and the chamber music arrangements in particular work most intensively when they are recorded live at the same time as an ensemble.That's why I wanted to record 'Flüchtige Küsse' like this.The titles'Ichmöchte fliegen','Zeit zugehen','Darfich bitten' and 'Fern ab vom Licht' were not recorded live. This has advantages in terms ofmixing but when you hear these pieces live on the upcoming DVD and CD 'Das gestohlene Konzert'youwill understandwhyI prefer live,also in terms of recording the chamber ensemble. It's just livelier and more intense. Sebastian Boettcher's compositions for the chamber music ensemble are very melodic. Your singing style, often referred to as Sprechgesang, has evolved in that direction, hasn't it? Let's put it thisway:with the chamber ensemble I sometimes hit the right notes. (laughs) Since the rehearsals here are muchmore intensive and complex,I alsodared to expandmy linguistic possibilities in a tonal way. In your lyrics on'Flüchtige Küsse'we can read things like: 'We all seekgreat happiness and forget to be just satisfied' and'Sometimes it's just about getting through life'.Howdo you see things in this regard? Exactly as it says in the text. Life is not always beautiful and sometimes fate is unfair andmean.But life is also the option on EVERYTHING, because if you don't live, you can't have beautiful things, fall in love, dance, have adventures or have happy moments. But a part of life is also experiencing grief and loss.It is important that wemake something of our lives and somehowtry tomake the world a little better. It gets more political at the end of 'Flüchtige Küsse': 'Because we don't believe anything anymore; no longer believing the facts' and 'arguing against ignorance is meaningless as playing chess with pigeons and religion'. Does the current affairs around corona and corona skeptics also seep through in these texts? 'Ich bin der Zorn',indeed.It ismainly thanks to idiots and toxic men likeTrump,Erdogan,Bolsonaro,Putin andOrban that the world has become smaller and more intolerant in recent years. Conspiracy theories are on the rise and I'm actually - 5 - waiting for the first pyres andbookburnings.Thedemocracies must now assert themselves and also clearly say goodbye to ruthless capitalism, in which only a small elite accumulate more and more money while the rest of humanity dries up. Whether financially,economically,socially or factually. You also say that a new record is coming soon–the tenth studio album.Canyou tell us something about it? We presentedX live with 5 titles on theXTour 2021.We will present the new album live on September 17 in Bayreuth. However, the X album itself will not be released until the spring of 2023,as we need this time to record the album in a way that we are happywith during this pandemic period.The pandemic has slowed things down and put a lot of things on hold as well.An unwanted delay has disadvantages.But you can alsomake this circumstance a possibility and that's what we're trying to dowith the concept ofX. (Read more on wwww.peek-a-boo-magazine.be) Xavier KRUTH Photos © Luc 'Who Cares' Luyten www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be
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