Christina Lux & Oliver George - Live deLUXe (2023) [Official Digital Download]

She's perhaps Germany's most wonderful insider tip. Almost 40 years have passed since Christina Lux and Oliver George played together in a rock band in Kassel. Those were Christina Lux's first steps on stage. After a year with many concerts, the voice of the then 18-year-old did not keep up and she had to take a break. "That was hard for me because I didn't know if I could fix it." It got better again, but she didn't want to go back to a rock band. In 1986 she got in touch with Edo & Vilko Zanki and recorded some songs together with Oliver George. They put them on a music cassette and visited the Zankis in their studio. "I only really felt how much the influence of Edo Zanki's way of singing influenced me when I started writing lyrics in German in 2006. A master."

Another 12 years went by with various formations until Christina Lux released her first EP in 1998 and was a guest with the band Fury in the Slaughterhouse on their Klein- aber-Fein Tour. Another 8 albums and many concerts followed.

In 2013 Oliver George and Christina Lux met again and started composing and playing together again in the following years. In 2018, the album LEISE BILDER was released. It was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize. It was Christina Lux's first entirely German-language album. In 2021, the album LICHTBLICKE was released. The two have also been on tour together since 2017.

In April of this year, a recording of a concert came about quite unplanned, and so they decided to turn it into a live double album long awaited by listeners. "Since we fortunately didn't know that the sound man was recording, we just played freely. It was exactly this liveliness that we liked so much when we listened to it that we decided to put it on a double album."

The live album contains many songs from the last two albums and a medley of older English-language songs. You can feel the great joy of playing on vocals, guitars and drums. There are improvised moments in which both let come what will come. These are Lux's unusual onomatopoeias and rhythmic scat interludes, Oliver's versatile talent on guitar, vocals and drums as well as the tasteful use of sounds and electronic elements that George lets fly in from the sampling pad. All this makes the album an impressive snapshot.

They sound like a big band, only to play a deeply touching, completely intimate song in the next moment with just two guitars and their voices. Christina Lux's voice is warm and big. She is a great guitarist, plays baritone, nylon and steel string guitar with her own groovy style and Oliver George on electric guitar finds exactly the sounds that create even more atmosphere. And bang, he sits at the drums and the sampling pad again and works his magic. As with True Self, also in the middle of the song.

Lux tells her stories with wonderful lyricism and fine poetry. You sense that there is someone who asks questions, dives deep and looks. You sense that two people have found each other, who give each other space, listen to each other and give the song exactly the accompaniment it needs to shine. Glimpses of light in a turbulent time.

Tracklist:
01. Stell dir vor
02. Haus
03. Wie tief
04. Mond
05. Meer
06. Uhr
07. Moment
08. Tag
09. Medley de Luxe
10. Geschichten
11. Ins Licht
12. Was zählt für dicch
13. Wege
14. Reise
15. Sing laut
16. True self


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