Max Raabe

Faultlessly fitting tuxedo, hair slicked back, a cheeky look and Max Raabe sings the best of the 20s and early 30s with amusing nostalgia. Songs, hits and couplets. Cuban rumbas, cheerful foxtrots and elegant tangos. Songs of amazingly serious, amusing yet melancholy simplicity. The ironic lyrics suit the times today as they did eighty years ago. In the concert halls of New York, Shanghai, Paris, Berlin and Moscow, in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Vienna, Amsterdam and Rome the audiences celebrate Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester with incredible enthusiasm. An attempt at an answer.

When Max Raabe with an incredibly straight face, ironically raised eyebrow and slightly bent elbow enters the stage almost carelessly, sends a sardonic look to the audience and with the greatest non- chalance and melodramatically rolling “r” admits: “I break the hearts of the most aloof women. I have such incredible luck with the ladies. My blood is lava and that is the trick”, well the man doesn’t only seem to be a strange otherworldly phenomenon to the delicate natures of the 21st Century.

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