
"Ι was on my annual leaf collecting holiday to Bavaria last year, and i stopped into a small family restaurant in a wooded glade. Οver my Sauerkraut and Riesling i could hear the sound of a strange but wonderful song. The later household proprietor said that it was an old favorite of his on '78. It was Heinz Wolf, 1923 bizarre cabaret songwriter. So i said i had to have it! I traded my finest leaf and i brought it on, carefully transcribed it and translated it. [...]
That Neil Hannon! He's like... well, he's like garlic. No, come back! I'll explain. See, thing is - you can put him with Air or Yann Tiersen , or Duke Special , or Ben Folds , or Charlotte Gainsbourg . Or you can have him cover a rock song as old 1923 German cabaret . Or write ridiculously catchy (and ridiculous ) songs for the telly. Pretty much, you can add him to just about anything, and he just makes [...]