With "Flying To The Stars", the Berlin/Leipzig quintet Coogans Bluff has released a new studio album, which is retro in an excellent and unusual way, but does not swim on the current retro wave.
eclipsed: To fall right into the house with the door: Is the new album "Flying To The Stars" your best album so far? If so, why? If not, why not?
Willi Paschen: I think it's turned out all right. Whether it's the best now, I don't know exactly. I like the others too. The new album is more in the overall context. All band members were involved in writing the songs. This time we also took a different approach by writing almost all the songs in the studio. And not like the records before, when we first worked out the songs and then went into the studio to record the songs. This time we worked out the songs together. That's why it feels like an overall system to us, even if we still have individual songs.
RIVAL SONS - Tied Up (3:25)
Album: Hollow Bones (2016)
Label/Distribution: Earache/ADA/Warner
www.rivalsons.com
When the Californians gather for their recording sessions, a lot of 70s stuff - musically meant - has to race through their brains; grooves, vocals, song construction seem to come directly from that time. Beside Bluesrock there are also soul and psychedelic parts like in this song.
Knowing that they have devised a mad melody, Coogans Bluff repeat it again and again in the title track and opener of their new album "Flying To The Stars". This almost thirteen-minute track is truly sensational. And it remains exciting, because the stunning melody is presented here by the vocals and the horns, sometimes discreet, sometimes fast, and so something of cool. And there it was, the trademark that has distinguished the band that was founded in Rostock and moved to Leipzig three albums ago: Trombone and saxophone.
