PARADIES,DAS - Goldene Zukunft (Sealed) (CD)

Some people know Florian Sievers as part of the pop duo Talking To Turtles. Under the stage name Das Paradies Sievers writes and sings for the first time in his mother tongue, and he makes it impressively easy. Sievers music is characterized by indie rock of the kind 'Slacker of world fame' and with fine soundtops from the world of reggae, dub and deep house, there is a friendly, almost hippie atmosphere. Sievers combines the world of words and sound of Das Paradies as a part-time hermit in his Leipzig studio, only an hour away from his friend and producer Simon Frontzek's windowless but legendary Berlin unicorn studio. As a time taster, his observations and the resulting phrases are wonderfully mature. Once the right word is found, he lets it go again. Pop as Zen meditation in a world in which people harden their points of view again. "The universe doesn't know what's happening to him either. What looks like a yes could also be a no. I wasn't serious about all of us." An album that releases us with these lines can be a liberation from paranoia or a plea for relaxation or both.