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In the 1920s and ’30s, cigarettes were cool, fur wasn’t yet considered cruel and popular music was filled with subtle sexual innuendo. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester relives the good old days through popular songs such as “Bei mir bist du schoen,” “Cheek to Cheek” and “Dream a Little Dream,” without updating them for modern times. Instead, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester—which occasionally plays old school versions of newer songs, such as “Oops!... I Did It Again” and originals by Raabe—mixes wide-ranging vocals that skip through the English and German languages with smooth big-band instrumentation for a sound that’s sexy in its outdatedness. This is the music of a time when the Great War was still the War To End All Wars and people lived in a harmonious naïveté as they looked toward the delights of life instead of the world’s troubles.
--by Patricia Sauthoff 10/17/08 >> go there
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