Jochen Distelmeyer, the tall, asymmetrically styled Zeus father of the poetic-political song, has an album with new, original pieces after 13 years. An event.
“Let’s not talk about sex,” sang Jochen Distelmeyer in 1991, “I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work: unite.” Distelmeyer, then 24, a disheveled young beat poet with an electrically amplified guitar and severe eyes, had ended up in East Westphalia for his community service in Hamburg, where he was the group’s lead singer Blumfeld had become. Listening to him saw live how yet another whole new language for rock ‘n’ roll was born and it was unspeakably exciting.