ETERNALLY YOURS [3LP] (GOLD VINYL, LIMITED)

Triple vinyl LP pressing. Eternally Yours is about permanence and transience. The lyrics of the songs from four decades are for the most part written by Marian Gold himself. The titular song reads like a farewell letter. In fact, except for the chorus, all the lines are taken from sonnets by Shakespeare. Marian Gold and his two arrangers Max Knoth and Christian Lohr succeed on this album in providing the musical substance of the songs with the appropriate sound content. At the same time, the songs do not sound unusually bloated or overused - on the contrary: as a listener, one wonders about the natural, warm, even familiar sounds and asks oneself why there have not been more symphonic arrangements of Alphaville songs before.