The piñata that has been longed for for 25 years: grooves and gags, melodies and elegance.
25 years of EROSOUND! – Time for a gift. A quarter of a century after the first and only album that Carsten Meyer released as Erobique, he is now fishing the second out of the pressing plant. In the meantime, Meyer – who grew up in Münsterland and has been a resident of Hamburg for years – has been omnipresent in an idiosyncratic way.
As a composer for film, television and theatre, live musician and spontaneous hit maker (“Holiday in Italy”), project partner of Oliver Polak, Jaques Palminger or Carsten Friedrichs, drummer of the funk instrumental band Hamburg Spinners, speaker at congresses, where he told people about creativity off the cuff. All of this is now flowing together. It starts with “Springinsfeld”, Meyer flirts with Vince Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” music and the comforting soundtracks of German television series from the 80s, especially the harmonica sound that Alain Goraguer composed for “I’m Marrying a Family”.
And this mixture of thirst for adventure and joy in familiarity persists: “Ahoj!” is yacht pop for people whose money is only enough for a harbor barge, singer Nicola Rost brings elegance to the great electro-soul pieces like “Synaesthesie”, the single “Verkackt” manages the trick of conveying a shitty beat in such a way that you can not only dance to it, but also look good while doing it. At the end there is one of those Erobique-Sponti-numbers with the “Hitsong von uns both” that reliably lets the holes fly out of the cheese at the gigs.