Sascha Bendiks - Light Luggage (CD)

SASCHA BENDIKS doesn't care about stylistic boundaries and talks about life - about life as it is and about life as it should be. The ten songs are bursting with stories worth telling. In a language that is easy but by no means careless, BENDIKS churns out images and sentences that immediately stick.
He lived, you can see it and hear it. "The pain and the sheer euphoria are trend-setting, and the two are not always clearly distinguishable - always keep moving" from the song BEWEGUNG culminates in the statement "Everything that doesn't quite fit together, with which you have come to terms - think again "
His Lamentations are odes to joy - and vice versa.
After twenty years in Berlin, he returns to the HEIMATMIEF of the small town of his youth in order to realize: "What you absolutely do not want to remember is more present than ever and, like a bubbling lake, fills your memory gaps with moments you thought were long lost, you were so naive and you're knee-deep in the home smell".
TANDEMROLLATOR is simply one of the most beautiful declarations of love ever "We'll put our teeth in the same glass at some point (...) if we don't think we know who we are".
Musically, he deliberately didn't set any limits, combining Tomwaitian rumba rumble (he has the voice for it), with a fantastically beautiful clarinet-smallest orchestra (yes, clarinets!) and Texan-dusty electric guitars (AMSTERDAM), to thank the moon immediately afterwards with lap steel and a bowed double bass: "The whole universe is only two by two meters - small, but flawless". (MY OLD BUD MOON)
On the album, which stylistically changes between pop, Americana and chanson, loyal companions sometimes provide unmistakable sounds. Axel Müller (BAP, Gregor Meyle) and JennyThiele (Fortuna Ehrenfeld, Rainald Grebe) have the honor of further enriching Bendiks' distinct sound.
BEWEGUNG was produced by Tobias Schwab in peace and quiet in the countryside in the Höllental laboratory. The album sounds hung, relaxed, poetic and complex. This is how BENDIKS itself could be well described.
Live and solo, he continues to break the songs down to their skeletal form, because “A good song always works with just a guitar or a piano. Complete. Has to be enough". In the album context, however, there are no limits!
"Light Luggage" by Sascha Bendiks, these are songs by someone who seeks happiness exactly where we last left it.

01 home smell
02 movement
03 shadow people
04 The moon is enthroned above everything
05 Amsterdam
06 Light luggage
07 Tandem rollator
08 The big sensation
09 It is night
10 My old buddy moon