Gleis 8 Single "GEH NICHT" released

  
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On September 13, 2013, the new single by Gleis 8 "GEH NICHT" was released.

Feel free to count: it will take just 20 seconds for you to know who is singing here: AnNa R. has recorded a new album.

"Do you know who I am / Do you really know who I am?"

For 20 years, we have known the Berlin native as the voice of Rosenstolz, the duo that made the leap from sparsely attended small art stages to the fully packed open-air arenas of this country, whose albums "Das große Leben", "Die Suche geht weiter" and "Wir sind am Leben" recently dominated the German charts. Peter had written catchy melodies and sensitive lyrics tailored to AnNa, and AnNa presented them unmistakably – sometimes as a delicate chanteuse, sometimes as a wild showwoman. Nevertheless, both decided last year to go their separate ways, seeking new challenges.

AnNa R: "Even though it has worked well for 20 years, I now want to write my own songs as a singer, to express my own thoughts." However, this is still not a solo career.

GLEIS 8 is a band.

"I had never experienced this before, a first band where you can initially make your experiences without being observed, where you can let loose," says AnNa. "With GLEIS 8, I now have these life circumstances, this feeling of working together with several people for the first time, exchanging ideas, not knowing at first where it will all lead, and ultimately finding a common path."

"If you don't do anything wrong now / I'll turn around / if I stay with you / you have a chance"

GLEIS 8 is not a blind date. The four musicians have previously worked together. In addition to the singer, Lorenz Allacher was heard as a saxophonist on the Rosenstolz tours. They both started writing new songs together before Hamburg's Timo Dorsch joined in. Timo: "This happened at AnNa's birthday party. We found a similar musical understanding, the ideas were there. What started as a let's-see-what-happens turned into regular rehearsals." Timo brought along the congenial drummer and keyboardist Manne Uhlig from Hamburg to Berlin. What GLEIS 8 now calls their "feel-good creation" was born, where ideas are conceived, played, and discussed until they move, until they rock.

And a lot is played, as every instrument, almost every function is here - just like in a good football team - doubly occupied. AnNa: "There are no restrictions. Everyone is allowed to show how they envision it. But whoever does it best, does it in the end."

This is not least what makes GLEIS 8 exciting for all involved. "It's exciting to reinvent oneself. The structures among each other are like a first great love that is still trying to find itself," says AnNa. And this tension, this excitement can be heard on the album "Bleibt das immer so".

Here, a bridge is drawn from deep humanity ("Geh nicht") to self-confident sensuality ("Die Chance") to rock ballads that begin with warm Rhodes piano and build up to a joyfully distorted guitar roar ("Zeit").

"Bleibt das immer so" is much more playful than what one typically hears on the radio today. "We simply let our taste guide us," summarizes Lorenz Allacher, "and since we are four people with four different preferences, we have created something quite unique." Alongside the many guitars, the driving drums, there are also brass and strings, and besides piano and organ, there is even a xylophone and a Paraguayan harp.

It sometimes wants to rock, it can be delicate and soulful in the ballads, it sometimes unfolds like a velvety curtain before a wide Cinemascope screen – and it is always touching, always real.

"Have you never noticed / what winter brings /
has your pain / never been burned away by sunlight?"

The lyrical tone that GLEIS 8 sets here, carried by AnNa's unmistakably deep, powerful voice, reveals what they experience and how they deal with it: a bit of doubt, a bit of loss, but an unconditional connection to this life, the will to cope with it.

By the way: How does a band cope with the fact that its members live in two different cities? "What's the problem? For two of us, the joint rehearsals, which take place in Hamburg and Berlin, are a bit like a vacation," says Manne. Moreover, a train ride from Hamburg to Berlin now takes just one and a half hours. And the trains always depart from GLEIS 8 at Berlin's main station. Thus, we have also clarified the question of the name.

GLEIS 8 are
AnNa R.
Timo Dorsch
Manne Uhlig
Lorenz Allacher

Gleis 8 Single "GEH NICHT" released

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