smile, Tall, lanky, striking facial features and Profit: When you walk with Scrooge through Berlin is hard to detect, if the many glances directed on him, his reputation or his imposing appearance are owed. Black coat, shiny, clean, back combed hair, here and there the steel, and the jacket is a Sweater from the Merchandise, with his own face on it. He doesn’t seem to notice – probably out of habit.

The singer is moving primarily on foot, even over long distances. Like the classic Flaneur, he is not dressed. Basically, he could jump at any time from the sidewalk on a stage, would maybe drive fast with the you can Always comb through the hair, and everything would be as planned long in advance.

“make yourself comfortable,” says Konrad Betcher and admits a square-free, the two adults just fit. Arrived in the rooms of the Kreuzberg Studios of K. I. Z, the angry Hip-Hop-Formation with provocative Lyrics and a political edge, it must move in the 1,90 big man several times in the head, in order to come into the recording room. “Full of nice, which made us easy to make,” says Scrooge. Here, he and producer Konrad recorded his new Album, just the piano parts are from a different recording space. A piano wouldn’t be here even in the absence of place among them.

Full load of Emotion, without distraction

Confined spaces are also in a figurative sense, the Background of the “world without time”, the new Album that will be released this Friday. Was cramped for a of the Association, the meetings of his previous albums had. “I would be very happy in the future without the concepts of a tear-Jerker and hit to get along,” he explains. Eventually, he answered naively, the question of its influences, quickly became a “sensationally boring” speculative bubble. The people wondered whether his appearance is meant seriously or is it all just a joke and mere PR-mesh. The was never, he says.

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order Any mesh and Gags have been prohibited in the production of “world without time” from the outset. The Writing of the songs of the accidental death of a close friend, was preceded, namely, the Echo of which is also in the write time, and in the Studio nachhallte. Also in comparison to the darker nature of the album is the result. “I just wanted to have the full charge of Emotion in this Album, without distraction.” Small recording room, great feelings, which will be given a lot of space. Many of the songs begin in areas with long, abstract synth, Betcher. “Play list unfriendly,” says Scrooge, “but it is what it is”. In order to form a judgement about the music, it is not enough to hear the first few seconds. You need something to it.

Asynchronous Listening

“Who’s trying to satisfy all Listeners’ requests, has already lost anyway,” he says on the way to Mille Petrozzas apartment. When the Thrash-Metal-titanium and Kreator frontman is staying elsewhere, casting Scrooge, out of friendship for his flowers. Then (!) he is from the apartment to the Label “act of state”, the Weißensee on the edge of Prenzlauer Berg, almost, and where the first edition of the LP and the CD printing is fresh in readiness for assessment.

This longer breathing, he encounters anyway, with sympathy, with the current Album, a quasi-form concept. The content will remain the great feelings. The formal slowness to interpret but as a torment, would be completely missed. Who is it usual to go far, torments, not in the case of longer marches, the great distance is to have positive connotations. “I like albums,” he explains, accordingly, not only individual songs, but real long-playing records, in which the Songs result in a coherent Whole, like the man from the beginning to the end by listening.

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anyone Who has trained for the long haul, even if the paradox may sound, above all: time. From this perspective it is the much faster frenzied environment that has no, the “world without time”. And in this one, Scrooge moves out of sync. Who can hear asynchronous, is here richly rewarded.