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It took six years – also due to the pandemic – until Hubert von Goisern was finally back on stage in 2022. On Friday evening, the 69-year-old played a much-acclaimed open-air concert at Burg Clam as part of his “Times and Signs” tour, named after the current album – two and a half hours with a lot of new and a lot of old, the expected huge portion of alpine elemental force, but also melancholy , sensitivity and intensity.
The evening was initially overshadowed by long-threatening storms. But Clam Castle in the southern Mühlviertel (Upper Austria) was finally spared and Hubert von Goisern and his fans were able to enjoy a “Haomspü” completely unmolested by bad weather, which Hubert von Goisern immediately said “Thanks for cloud shifting!” caused. The first part of the evening was dedicated to the current album “Zeiten undzeichen”, released in 2020, with the rocking “A Tag wia heit” right at the start. The current work has a huge range, from the usual criticism in alpine rock garb to numerous stylistic excursions, sometimes also to the fringes of stupid pop and parodies.
“El Elektro”, for example, turned out to be a top-class electronic beat hammer live, but is actually intended as a complete treatment of this genre. A story about the life of the Inuit and the glaciers that are constantly calving due to global warming, driven by eco-conscience, was followed by the Lalala-Pop-like “protein” (which the polar bears are constantly looking for, e.g. in the form of their human victims… ).
The anti-Rammstein & Co song “Brauner Reiter” was depressingly apt, especially in terms of content, as well as the story of the Jewish operetta author Fritz Löhner-Beda (including “Land of Smiles”, “Giuditta”, “Viktoria and her Hussar” , “Die Blume von Hawaii”), who, like his entire family, was killed by the Nazis – of which his longtime composition partner Franz Lehar claimed not to have noticed; and this story impressive – and completely unembarrassing – as a rap, you have to get that right first.
Last – great – example of the “unconventional Hubert von Goisern”: “Sünder”, also from the current album – the danceable apocalypse, so to speak. And of course Corona & Co and above all their social consequences were also a topic, for example at the beginning of “Meiner Seel'”, which revolves around the now widespread relativization/denial of facts and scientific knowledge. The clearest sentence: “There is only one world conspiracy, and that is stupidity.”
At the end of the great, long evening, “Brenna tuats guat” was a rousing highlight and a return to the well-known at the same time. During the encores – above all “Far Far Away” and “Heast as net” – Hubert von Goisern really put a damper on the mood – musicians and audience merged into a melancholy, touched unit. At last he sat down alone with a guitar and played the new ballad “Dunkelrot”, sung in High German. The numerous fans of the Germany part of the tour following the Saturday concert in Tulln (Lower Austria) will certainly like this very much.
Source: Nachrichten
