The solo concert program for the new album "Komm an Land"
The new concert program is carried by downbeats, Americana guitars, lo-fi ambiences and balladesque piano arrangements. IC FALKENBERG has dug deep into his repertoire
and sings and plays songs that have long been missing from his concerts alongside his hits.
Of course, these songs also have exciting and amusing stories that need to be told.
"No former East German rock great sounds as little like ex-GDR as Ralf Schmidt - the man plays skilful cabaret songs of his own class on a trained pop keyboard, his voice sounds fresh, the lyrics are from the here and now, and musically, unlike many of his colleagues, IC has not lived under a rock for the last 35 years."
Tim Hofmann
(Freie Presse)
"IC Falkenberg has written this album, which is called "Komm an Land"
and is dedicated to all those who know the big, black dogs, who sometimes despair and still dare to question whether everything that sounds so loud and fast and riotous out there is reality and really important."
Volly Tanner
(Schallmagazin)
IC FALKENBERG looks back on a life in which rebellion and self-assertion were always the driving forces. And on a career - as exciting and eventful as contemporary history.
Unimpressed by the rules of the music business, IC Falkenberg delivers multi-layered, atmospherically dense compositions with very clever lyrics, hardly any other German singer writes so abstractly and associatively.
A poet who sings here, in pieces that are stylistically so far removed from ordinary rock songs.
IC FALKENBERG combines elegiac mood with literary aspirations:
IC FALKENBERG writes and sings and plays piano and guitar, he rubs up against the big issues and draws them into his real world beyond the party stronghold excesses. And he takes a stand. Over 54 years on stage and 28 albums speak for themselves, as does FALKENBERG's musical diversity.
IC FALKENBERG has been on stage since he was ten years old. In the 1980s, he was the singer, composer and lyricist of Stern Meissen.In the mid-80s, he quickly became one of the most successful and popular artists in East Germany under the stage name IC FALKENBERG, selling over 250,000 copies of each of his first two solo albums.000 copies of each of his first two solo albums.
IC FALKENBERG's concerts are unrepeatable moments, their open-hearted intimacy and touching melancholy interwoven with humorous stories. Despite his challenging themes, he maintains an unobtrusive lightness. He masters the balancing act, sounding sensitive but never sentimental.
Further information and audio samples: http: //www.icfalkenberg.de
