Hottentottenmusik

Albenrezension

In October 2010, Marius Müller-Westernhagen toured with a band paying homage to the music that inspired him to become a musician: American blues and rock & roll. This album presents several live recordings from those concerts, and the title itself uses the derogatory term that was used by appalled parents throughout Germany to label the wild music their kids were enjoying so much: Hottentottenmusik (literally: "Hottentot music"). The record features several of Westernhagen's classic songs (among them "Mit 18," which is about his 1967 rock & roll band Harakiri and his mother's disapproval) as well as newer compositions — and while only 14 of the 25 songs played during the concerts are included on the record, more songs can be downloaded from Westernhagen's home page. Together with guitarist Brad Rice, bassist John Conte, and drummer Aaron Comess, Westernhagen rearranges his songs to fit the rock & roll approach — most notably on his old hit "Mit Pfefferminz Bin Ich Dein Prinz," which has been renamed "Pfefferminzblues."