Beside that the problems with the artwork delayed the release of the new album
SANDRA visited Germany last week to promote her new album The Wheel Of Time.
We met her in Munich, and she was relaxed and in a good mood.
Looking at the amazing results of our fans ask Sandra-campaign SANDRA told us
she hardly couldn´t believe in having so many fans all over the world after
7 years of absence. Exactly this was the clue for her new album:
SANDRA wanted to do something for her true fans sticking by her for so many years
- she wanted to do a new album for them!
Wasn´t it hard to get back into music business after such a long time?
As I returned back on stage for the first time after 7 years I felt so happy"
SANDRA explained. Everything was familiar to her, especially working on the
Forever video. - "As if there has never ever been a break."
If so, why this long break? In fact, SANDRA was in need of a time-out.
After travelling for years and only coming home for changing clothes and heading back
for the road again she was longing for a rest, for a regulated life and for a family.
This time of concentration, of focussing on her individual development became the layer,
so to say, the background for her comeback. She definitely likes getting back to work,
but not as excessively as before. "365 days a year travelling allover Europe -
I can´t and won´t do that anymore." There should be enough time left for the children
and herself, so she carefully selects what she´s going to do.
The man behind the new album The Wheel Of Time is - once more - her husband Michael Cretu.
She sees her role in interpreting the songs he writes for her and and give them her very
own touch. "Perfect Touch for example - I changed the melody instinctively to get closer
to my understanding of this song." Working with Michael Cretu gives her freedom in
interpretation and extemporization as well as widening the range of her voice which now
contains passages sung as a mere whisper and lower keys as well.
One can feel a kind of safety behind the music that results in a new way of approaching
the songs. Michael never told her when and how to sing the songs. Let´s hear Sandra on her
favourite song of the new album, I Close My Eyes: Michael told me it´s me who sets the
right time for singing each song - it could be today, tomorrow or in three weeks. -
I´ve read the text for I Close My Eyes just one time to avoid any slips of the tongue,
and I knew the melody. One morning, somehwere around 4 o´clock, the moment had arrived.
I joined Michael and Jens in the studio who at that time had been working on another song.
They switched from mixing to recording, I took the microphone, and then we did exactly two
takes, each without break. That was it! - I´ve never managed this before. - We left the
second take behind and took the first one right away. Okay, there was one line I could have
done even better, but if you start cutting pieces out and recording them again and again
effects a loss of unity, mood and flair. It was just of a piece. - Honestly, I believe
I Close My Eyes is the best song on this album, besides The Wheel Of Time."
Of course SANDRA loves each song of her new album! The way she approaches to the songs
nowadays is very different from the past. At that time she first memorised the songs and
concentrated on how to exactly express them. She exercised and exercised, and so she
trained herself to sing each line in just one way - and there was no possibility to
change this expression once it was found. "Overexercising" is the term Sandra uses
therefore. Today SANDRA is an even more self-confident and courageous artist who trusts
in her voice and her expressiveness. That gives her the maturity and freedom for
improvisation that results in the flair that surrounds The Wheel Of Time.
"A development of my ego - in every direction" - that´s how Sandra puts it in a few words.
Tomorrow more from SANDRA - here on this page!
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Sandra, the German icon of the 80's, the female counterpart to Modern Talking, is back.
After six years of child breeding on Ibiza the first single "Forever" was released in October.
A flop. Now the second try: The single "Such a Shame".
CONGRATULATIONS!
