“songs From the bottom Vol.1″ (Four Musi) so it is titled, second album, still surprisingly long hairy Blumfeld-head, which is now already 48 years old and after his solo debut “Heavy” from 2009 with relish time allowed to the creative work. One thinks. But it was not so, as a well-DOMICILED Jochen Distelmeyer stressed during an interview in Berlin. “I have made myself neither rare nor I was gone. But I actually worked consistently. “
2010 already he began working on a new record, it should go, among other things to the wanderings of a modern Odysseus character, but soon realized the native of Bielefeld, who since years living in Berlin that “the substance is always escalating and extensive was”. The solution? Distelmeyer wrote instead of an album a novel, “Otis”. In his book tour, he sprinkled then one or the other song, it is an excellent idea, but the same to make a complete, held in English, cover album.
“Songs developed From the Bottom Vol. 1 “has become a really fine gem, far more than merely a transitional album. The instrumentation of the songs are decidedly economical, simple and clear. “For me, a pop statement is, however,” said Distelmeyer, “namely a kind approach to the world. For what we are told in a song. And for simplicity and clarity of pop music. “Distelmeyer has also played solo over the years from time to time English cover songs live with both Blumfeld as, virgin territory that is not so for him.
Overall, is his singing considerably in the center of this sparsely instrumented album. The German version of “American Recordings” by Johnny Cash did Jochen Distelmeyer not want to record. “Of course I find cash toll, and in principle by blowing some of the pieces as a country feel. But that was not a concept, especially since I was closer to the blues for a long time as the Country. The range of genres, artists and formative years of the song reflects quite well resist what interests me musically “
It is very exciting song selection: In addition to classics like”. Turn Turn Turn “by Pete Seeger or” Let’s Stay Together “Al Green has the master also Lana del Rey’s” video Games “(” a really great piece of pop music “),” I Could Be the one “by Avicii (in a piano version) and even” Toxic “by Britney Spears new interpreted. Where should because there please reference be, Jochen? ” ‘Toxic’ to me is actually a Blue song I interpret that way. I liked this siren-like appeal, which one can not escape and had replied with my version of it. “
With the original artists and their CVs to Distelmeyer has already barely explained. “You do not know about all backgrounds communication. If a song speaks to me, even better, me knocks down, then I hear the very often make up my mind and play it in my own way because that’s the point. To the personal approach. . Therefore, the songs to sing as if it were their own “
Live: 15.4. Munich, National Theatre; 16.4. Augsburg, canteen. Information at www.jochendistelmeyer.de.
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