Tour for the new album
As a little boy, I sang in the St. Thomas Boys' Choir
I sang songs to people in church
My teacher was Johann Sebastian Bach
Mostly it was about Jesus
(Hallelujah)
Once again, Kompass, the new album by Prinzen frontman Sebastian Krumbiegel, is not about Jesus. Instead, it's about Elon Musk's tax return, the little prince, that 2+2=5, why you shouldn't be afraid despite everything and should rather dream of a better world, and it's about music. About more music.
Speaking of which: Sebastian Krumbiegel has played almost 70 gigs in the last 12 months and written almost 70 songs in the same time. He put the songs through their paces, rearranged, discarded, created. The result: his new album Kompass.
As you can see, Sebastian Krumbiegel loves writing songs and playing them live. And he loves not only to entertain his audience before, during and after his gigs, but also to talk to his audience. And little by little, it became clear in his conversations that in these difficult times, his audience wanted positive songs. In this sense, the highly appreciated audience was the compass for the song selection of the album. Kompass contains 14 songs in which the glass is basically half full, the grass is basically green and the light at the end of the tunnel is basically not from an oncoming locomotive.
Krumbiegel himself, as he says, was also not in the mood for sad songs. But anyone who thinks that the artist is drifting into shallow territory is mistaken: Krumbiegel, like few others, manages the balancing act between entertainment and reflection, between criticism and optimism.
Sebastian Krumbiegel is someone who believes. He believes in the power of art, in the possibility of change for the better, and his songs are about precisely this belief. He reminds us not to forget the dream of a different, more harmonious world. And he achieves this without kitsch. But with humor, lots of humor.
Musically, Kompass is also an optimistic album, an optimistic album, but without window-dressing.
As you would expect from Sebastian Krumbiegel, the new songs captivate with great melodies, daring harmonies and gigantic choirs. Sebastian Krumbiegel is someone who can sing and play, someone who has studied with the greats (Bach, Beatles, Queen) and someone who succeeds in making the difficult artistically easy.
