Maya the Bee as a greasy, sweaty funk song? A morbid sailor’s hit on “flowers”, who like to watch the murders, and is that Florian Silbereisen, who staggers through the scenery? A hymn to the entertainment dictatorship of Thomas Gottschalk, which may not last forever, but lasts at least 1000 years and through which a rabid saxophone drives at the good end?
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Rolf Blumig doesn’t explain himself, and that’s probably for the best. The musician from Leipzig keeps a low profile, but packs the wildest nightmare fantasy into his songs, which even Kafka would have found too ill or at least too confused. This rollercoaster ride through a crazy mind is consistently implemented with constantly changing styles of strange hip-rigid psychedelia, somehow then not danceable disco, thrown together summer hits, pandering catchiness and dangerous outbursts of noise.
Sounds exhausting? Is exhausting. But unfortunately it’s also awesome when Blumig sings about the not at all impossible, but rather dirty love in the allotment garden settlement. Or is it about the post-war period? Or something completely different? Damn it!
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