Andreas Dorau is regarded as a cashmere classic amongst the hit-machine of the discerning German entertainment electronica. With the refined, but robust snout of a wild boar, Dorau knows how to nose around in the archives of the ordinary for suitable truffles, for his terse, little dramas. His works are, by his own admission, an opulent bouquet of chansons, steam rollers, thin-skinned songwriter-ballads, bound together in snappy dance-rhythms and extravagant harmonic shifts. And the lyrics? Incurable die-hards and ruffians may still label them as bizarre. We, however, believe: Andreas Dorau is one of the few German songwriters who truly writes his songs from the heart.

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