Immer Spass auf den Backen

As with his debut "Die Sonne", this album is again a concept album with 8 original instrumental compositions.
The Bass player Wolf-Ruprecht "Rupi" Schwarzburger - a native of Gelsenkirchen - processes memories and experiences from his youth in the city.

The album is subtitled "I like to think of my time in the Ruhr area".
The songs form a retrospective of life in the Ruhr area in the 60s - impressions, visions, memories - a life in the rhythm of industry - everywhere still the destruction of the war - hard work - economic miracle - gamblers - colliery death - football - small happiness - quite normal everyday life, unsentimental and yet gripping - and yet always fun on the cheeks.

The songs are, as always with Rupi, stylistically very independent and musically hard to classify. He has created a fascinating mix of jazz, urban beats, funk, industrial, lounge:
the sounds almost psychedelic - hypnotizing beats - catchy melodies - burning solos - a play with associations - visions - movie scenes....
The result is a fascinating club sound - with addiction factor.