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I’m currently sitting here with my second glass of red wine and candlelight, listening to "When Music Was Really Great" on repeat. After listening to "Feelings from the Ashes" a few times now, I keep getting stuck on this song, and even though the other tracks certainly have their quality, I still look forward to landing on Track 6. This piece brings forth several little stories that have shaped both my childhood and my present, and I rarely get the chance to recall and reflect on them. I am all the more grateful for this little joy of being able to do so again at this moment.
One or another will surely have sat at home in bed before going to sleep, in front of the radio, with the tape in the deck, ready to press the record button for the next song, so that later they could listen to the songs in somewhat mediocre quality (from today’s perspective).
And how proud I was back then of the one cassette that could hold 90 minutes, which I guarded like my own eye.
Later, I recorded the first mix tapes for my hopefully future girlfriend, tailored individually, and I was overjoyed with each and every song. And then later, when the financial means allowed it, I switched to vinyl, and I celebrated putting the record on, sitting on the carpet, and enjoying the sound world.
All of this and more resonates in Track No. 6 "When Music Was Really Great". It is a homage to music, a tribute to how one grows up with music and how one changes with music, amplifying or repressing pain, generating joy, etc. A grand cinematic experience, thank you for that. I have been waiting a long time for a comparable song.
Glass No. 3, 11th run.
Two years after the last album "S.O.S. – Save Olli Schulz" (03/2012), his sixth album titled "Feelings from the Ashes" was released on January 9.
As with the previous album, this one does not ignite on the first listen but has to develop, so to speak, like a good wine that needs to breathe a little.
It has become a very melancholic and contemplative record where the lyrics are consistently more serious than one is used to from Olli, perhaps aside from the wordplay of the album title or the lyric line from "Passt Schon!": "I want to see your dogs! Throw your dogs in the air!".
With "Passt schon", I also have a bit of fear that the song might eventually wear out with the constant repetition of the chorus, that I won’t be able to listen to it anymore, and during the next listen of the album, I will just press the "Next" button to skip to the next track.
The ten songs of the album have been produced "classically" again, in contrast to the last record which was recorded live in the studio on a single track. And this time, Olli is accompanied and supported by various musicians, some of whom were also heard on the last album, including Gisbert zu Knyphausen (bass), Arne Augustin (piano), Normen Glotz (electric guitar), Ben Lauber (drums), and Moses Schneider as producer.
Naema Faika sings in the choir on "Children of the Sun" and "Man in the Rain", Thees Uhlmann sings the choir in "This Can Get Ugly", and the Australian singer Kat Frankie sings the last verse in "Feelings from the Ashes".
The whole thing was recorded in the Hansa Studios in Berlin.
