A man walks past a North German brick facade. His path leads him to a music store where, after a careful test, he decides to go with an acoustic one.
This is how Jochen Distelmeyer (55) returns to the solo path of showbiz. New song, new luck? With a direct address to the esteemed audience, which begins as an ode to loneliness: “All around you only war and crisis, death. A hard rain falls on your world. And who doesn’t know where your love lives…”
A latently sad ballad combined with a rebelliously conciliatory note. Later in the little film, Distelmeyer stands on the street with his Dylan harmonica on his stand and sings “about the end of violence” in street singer style. As a desperado of our time, he wanders into the night at the end of his Moritat…
A cover of “I sing for you” on Spotify shows a drawn country boy with a peaked cap planting a tree. The wind seems to be blowing towards Folk.
From the median of a road bridge and the burning question of whether “paradise will ever come back” it’s now straight to Distelmeyer’s new solo album “Gefühlte Truths”, which is expected to be released on July 1st on the Four Music label.
A “pre-order track listing” placed with Apple Music already presents twelve songs in German and English. The master keeps his “wording” short and sweet. Spartan titles such as “Sometimes” or “Back to Me” suggest a new word minimalism. “Felt Truths” is the first Distelmeyer album with new songs since “Heavy” from 2009. He continues to tour with his Blumfeld colleagues, most recently playing at ROLLING STONE Beach.