Thees Uhlmann

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Highway, dirt tracks, country roads. Thees Uhlmann has long been his own road movie. But only this album traces the trip in a way that is suitable for traveling. It takes you from the AJZ to the stadium, from Hemmoor to New York, through more than three decades of reunified Germany. Rock, indie, punk and everything else. But only in extreme emergencies. "It's not the sun that sets / It's the earth that turns" ("Schönheit der Chance") The Thees Uhlmann experience (2011 - present) "What I know about life / I know from 'Stand By Me'" ("Danke für die Angst") That Thees would continue solo therefore seems more logical than surprising. Nevertheless, the first song on his first album changes his perception as a songwriter. "Zum Laichen und Sterben ziehen die Lachse den Fluss hinauf", a once-in-a-lifetime song about repatriation and new beginnings, accompanied by a Super 8 video. In a podcast, Thees once explains how he always fought for himself as an artist in his home town of Hemmoor and even later. The song stands for being able to overcome this struggle. No longer having to hide behind an eternal search. Dare to find something. In this way, the three solo albums to date have each become a statement piece in their own right. Something to orient yourself by. A kind of lost humanism with guitars, stormy, wistful moments, wit, longing, consolation. The songs try to be a more precise marker than GPS could ever manage. In "Ich bin der Fahrer, der die Frauen nach HipHop-Videodrehs nach Hause fährt", Thees Uhlmann intertwines powerlessness vs. responsibility with the impositions of the zeitgeist. Equally intimate and hymn-like, framed in a laconic narrative. This guy really should write a book, you think. And of course you know he has. More than one. "Sophia, Death and I" was made into a movie last year by Charly Hübner. "No matter what I do, I've always thought of you" from the soundtrack is the latest song on this long-term study - and it says: take good care of yourself and, above all, he means it. Sincerely Thees Uhlmann.

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