Birth Of A Stranger: Shadow & Light of Albert Camus" - Honest, deep, full of feeling. Love, death and rebellion, fullness of life and transience, the awareness of the transience of the moment, the savouring of the full moment. This melancholy that draws from the abundance and has always known about its finiteness. A sound reminiscent of late cash, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits. Music that does not age but is traditional but not anachronistic. This kind of voice, which somehow always sounds like old whisky, which tastes soft and burns when it runs down your throat. Songs from a Camus-related soul, no question. It is this voice that immediately jumps at the listener, captivates him and finally overwhelms him without restraint. A rough elemental force, filled with merciless purity, one cannot escape this organ once one has got involved in it. Eric Andersen is the owner of this very special vocal gift, which is reminiscent of Bob Dylan's ingenious grumbling, Leonard Cohen's fragile-impressive, Woody Guthrie's puristic phenomenal. Eric Andersen, born in 1943 in Pittsburgh, can see himself as a hero of an era long believed to have passed, which, of course, was never gone and which certainly will never perish at any time. We are talking about the age of folk, which reached its peak in the 1960s, with spearheads like Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger or Grantler Dylan. But actually we are talking about the caste of singing storytellers, troubadours who are often only supported by a guitar, creative people who explain the meaning and nonsense of humanity's existence. The album is released as Digipak CD with 32-page booklet and as 180g, audiophile vinyl in gatefold cover.
