Gentle indie techno that calmly celebrates life.
60 is the new 20. That’s what Andreas Dorau’s new album could also be called, because it stops time, wraps heartwarming, eternally valid lyrics and sounds with a blanket of humor and a desire for freedom. It will be published exactly on Dorau’s 60th birthday; according to his own statements, he deliberately chose this date in order to skip the special day with work and distraction.
His beginnings as a poster boy for the NDW have now disappeared into the mists of the past, because Dorau’s work of the last 30 years fortunately overwrote the attempts of the early years. With an unbroken spirit of research, he always confidently surfed various musical fashion waves, and yet always remained a storyteller who used minimalist means to bring clarity to his lyrical concerns.
A sentence, a sound quote is always enough to make worlds and abysses visible
The 13 tracks on IM GEBÜSCH are somewhat Pet Shop-boyish, they show where the 90s got the most. Help came from producer, musician and composer Zwanie Johnson, who has achieved great things as a solo artist in the past. The 13 pieces, such as the great “It’s just music”, were partly created in cooperation with artist friends (Brezel Göring, Wolfgang Müller, Carsten Friedrichs and others).
A sentence, a sound quote is always enough to make worlds and abysses visible. One looks in vain for obvious malice, and yet Dorau’s Rumpelstiltskin song in particular evokes stable anger at circumstances and injustices in the listener. Gentle in age, yes, but dancing with a cold beer in hand.