MARIO HAMMER AND THE LONELY ROBOT - JE L'AI CALISSEE LA (CD)

"Live, laugh, love. Pain, shame, guilt. Grief, consolation, action. Hope, healing, helplessness. Loneliness, egoism, disappointment. In transit, we experience a harmonious combination of all these and many more emotions that hypnotically mesmerize us. Here, you are confronted with the truth. Uniquely and intelligently packaged, we may have to accept the fact that what we can feel from one minute to the next is, although irritable and engaging, it is in fact that very characteristic that makes us human. The ten very different titles devoted to different languages and proverbs take us on a journey throughout the emotional worlds of human existence. Or can the interpretation be psychologized at this point and should we rather speak of the journey throughout his sentiment? Mario Hammer's music is a time of reflection and pondering. He calls it life experience. We may be part of this realization and perhaps will be aware of how often we can find ourselves within the tracks. It is both the creativity, as well as the enormous sensitivity to sounds and sound colors that make up this album. For fourteen months Mario Hammer, in collaboration with Josef Steinbüchel, has developed an emotion and sound carousel that not only touches our senses, but also stimulates us to think." (label info)