Chapeau Claque - fabelweiss

A coming and going love like a stork leaving its nest in late summer is extolled in the first track ‘Unsere Liebe - Ein Storch’ underlined with dreamy melancholic sounds to a pacey rhythm. ‘Rot’ (red), not only title but also extensively used word in this up-tempo song. But the mood is changing suddenly from bold to deeply melancholic almost entirely without drums, but with acoustic guitars and angelic chant. “My cocoon is pinching my emerging wings, but I know I’m not ready to hatch yet.” That’s the only line this moony song offers, gentle piano play, soft drumming and a laid-back acoustics are the only companions of Maria’s brittle voice on the track - a song for dreamers. But now Ms. Tragedy ‘Pandora’ is freed out of her box and puts a charm on us with frisky gloom while a storm I with heavy rain is passing over us. While the verses are sung in German, the lyrics of the chorus are presented in English. But even though the women in ‘Vagabund’ actually doesn’t believe that one person could steal the heart of another, she’s not so sure anymore with a specific person, but love can fly by very soon sometimes and as sad as it is you gonna pull yourself up for the very ‘Last Dance’ and accentuated by frail violin, a sad piano melody and casual drum passages, Maria’s voice guides us through this heavy-hearted song, before we’re sent back onto the ‘Karussel’ carousel of life, constantly circling around, but we have to be careful not to miss out something as it’s really circling fast nowadays where so much is reigned by rush…