tomeque aus Hamburg veröffentlicht am 27.11.2020 das Musikvideo zu seinem Album-Titelsong “Hallo Welt”: ein verträumt-sphärischer und kühl-dystopischer Schrei in den Orbit. Inspiriert vom Filmsetting zu Tarkowskis “Stalker”, konzertieren im Song Piano und Synthesizer in Dreampop-Manier auf einem hypnotischen Downbeat, als suchten Technik, Natur und menschliche Schöpfung nach Einklang.
Im Video erwacht tomeque orientierungslos in einer unwirklichen Welt, als wäre er mit seinem Raumschiff abgestürzt, und sucht zunächst seine sieben Sachen zusammen. Schwer beladen mit Gedanken, Instrumenten, Diskokugel und einem aufblasbaren Globus durchschreitet er einen mystischen Wald, bis er zum See gelangt. Dort deutet ihm ein geheimnisvoller Fremder zum Horizont, woraufhin…
“After seven years in the cave, the most isolated place in the world, farthest away from the people, I pulled strings from my skin onto my acoustic guitar to find the most beautiful, most eternal and most painful melody…”
And now he lets go and releases his album into the world — with the probably loneliest release party ever due to lockdown. But tomeque doesn’t let it get him down and invites his most loyal fans to a release weekend on St. Pauli, in fixed single-household slots, with an exhibition of pictures from the album artwork. …
tomeque releases his new single “Drei letzte Sekunden”. After the previous single “Immer nur tanzen”, he is taking it much more calmly this time and lets his acoustic guitar and a cello take the lead.
“Drei letzte Sekunden” (=Three last remaining seconds) is a soulful singer-songwriter ballad with lots of emotion and weltschmerz. It’s about being abandoned by fellows, friends and lovers. …
tomeque’s third single “England, mach’s gut… (Have a good one, UK…)” is a melancholic rock ballad in British songwriting manner. The song is concerned with the UK resigning from the European idea — from the perspective of the forsaken with much wistfulness and weltschmerz.
In the music video, tomeque is roaming through the streets of Hamburg, looking for English tracks and common grounds, that lead him to the heart of the city:
- from the former British merchant settlement at Hamburg’s landmark church of St. Michael’s
- to the Jenischpark — an English landscape garden in western Hamburg
- passing the Flak bunker…
