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In the title track of his new album, Schneider sings, so rather grunts, that he is “the last of his kind”. It can’t be meant autobiographically, after all, as a “singing gentleman’s cake” you’re probably the only one of its kind. Hopefully this is about the swan song, i.e. a snort on the bullfighter’s guild, which is dying out. One is closer to the artist with the following self-description of coming from “another time”. Of course, Schneider has always been out of time and perhaps that has never been more valuable than in view of the ongoing decay of our world.
Although Schneider behaves like an insatiable glutton in “The Eater”, this time he only serves us a slim eight pieces on the banquet table in the dining room of his Stream of Consciousness. There are no radio plays like the one on MAMA (2020), nor any purely instrumental jazz like the one on DIE REAKTION – THE LAST JAZZ VOL. II (2021).
These are songs that use every means to lead us astray. The ambient piano of “The Wizard” ends in one of Schneider’s crudest scenes. The Guilty Doctor also takes a surprising turn, inexplicably of course. TORERO is a wonderful winter album – cozy and warm and more invigorating than any Jagertee.
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