Jesper Munk

In 2024, Jesper Munk celebrated his "return" to himself. After a long creative break, which he spent mainly as a member of Berlin post-punkers P.D.O.A. (Public Display Of Affection) and the internationally recognized industrial noise institution Plattenbau, he released "Yesterdaze" last year, the long-awaited, self-composed and ultimately highly praised successor to "Favourite Stranger" (2018), following the 2022 cover album "Taped Heart Sounds".

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his most successful album to date, "Claim" (released at the same time as the "best of ... live" album as a limited "10th anniversary vinyl edition"), Jesper Munk is now devoting himself more to his early work, which - for reasons - he deliberately neglected at times. On the album "best of ... live" - a two-part double album with independent live recordings together with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and his backing band The Cassette Heads - all his evergreens are now represented, from the "Claim" all-time favorites "Morning Coffee", "Shakespeare & Heartbreak", "Courage For Love" and "Reeperbahn" to all-time favorites such as "Clean", "Easier", "Blue Shadows" and "Happy When I'm Blue".

But of course, newer songs from the past "Yesterdaze" year and Jesper Munk's incomparable cover versions of "My Babe" (Little Walter), "Amsterdam" (Jacques Brel), "Head In The Cloud" (Mocky), "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" (Tom Waits) or "Salford Town" (The Dubliners/Luke Kelly), among others, are not to be missed.