Italian
| Title: |
Hands
Up
| | Artist: |
Hannes
Lingens |
| Supplied
by: |
Hannes
Lingens |
| Review
date: |
14
July 2006 |
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 "Hands
Up" by Hannes
Lingens.
There are 18 tracks on this album titled “Hands Up”and
all of them would merit a deeper appraisal, in that they are all
expressive, varied and never dull.
However for the sake of brevity, I will limit myself to those tunes
that most captured my imagination.
The first track “Vanishing valts” is a disguised waltz
in which a strict tempo rhythm is linked to an elusive melody that
requires the listeners attention.
“Ancora una
volta” (the title is in Italian) recalls the poetic cinematograhpy
of Nino Rota whilst the “Mikrokosmos Teil 1” , “Teil2”
and “Teil 3” are like fragments of obscure poetry.
In “Hey there!
Are you a sailor” Lingens makes a brief and splendidly dreamlike
excursion with guitarist Cristoph May who is also present on the
surreal bluegrass number “Ja think I’m a cowboy?”where
we wait from one moment to the next for the voice of Tom Waits.
“Zwischen den Jahren” instead sees the accordionist interact
in perfect harmony with saxophonist Martin Postegga in deveoping
the sorrowful melody that characterises this tune. This young man
(who at the time of recording in 2004 was 24 years old) is gifted
with creativity, of his own poetic vision and something that never
goes away, a correct amount of irony.
In conclusion this is a very good work.
Review by Renato
Belardinelli
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