Together with his long-time musical collaborators Sander Lueken (keyboards, vocals) and Thomas Fahnert (guitar, violin, vocals), Paul Bartsch garnishes his optimistic song poetry with a powerful mixture of folk, blues, rock and chanson - an entertaining, sometimes thought-provoking, but always encouraging pleasure as a search for the possible in our changing world.
The Halle (Saale) based singer-songwriter Paul Bartsch, a generational companion of Gundermann and Wenzel, is, as they say, a literary scholar by birth. It is therefore obvious that many of his texts contain literary allusions, motifs and references, with the world of fairy tales and myths proving particularly fruitful. It is by no means a case of "Once upon a time...", but rather a question of how the Town Musicians, the golden fish, the seven dwarves who have lost their jobs or the frog that has to land on the wall to become a prince fit into the present day. And about what Sisyphus, Odysseus and Icarus still have to tell us. And even the knight of the sad figure, together with his faithful squire, pulls himself together to make the world a little better. All of this leads to the poetic realization that the fairy tales of days to come will not conjure up a "way forward", but rather a "it could be"!
