After the gold-certified number one debut album "Ansa Woar" (2016) and the masterpiece "`s klane Glücksspiel" (2019), which was awarded Album of the Year at the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards, as well as a successful soundtrack outing ("Sargnagel - Der Film"), which earned him a nomination for the Austrian Film Award, Voodoo Jürgens is now back with his opus magnum to date, "Wie die Noch jung wor".
Lyrically, he has never been more precise, and the music changes skillfully. Sometimes it is tender and touching, then again fiery rousing; his band the Ansa Panier has long been known as the best live band in the country, swings, twists and jazzy unmuckered, tasteful and always with a passion as if it were about their lives through a panopticon of the most beautiful sounds, while Voodoo tells his stories.
Stories of outsiders, crooks, losers and outcast anti-heroes. Voodoo gives them a voice. So far so familiar. What's new is that this time Voodoo reveals more personal than before and, through his lyrical I here, also tells us again and again about his own struggles, lets us share in his soul life.
"Wie die nocht jung wor" shows an artist at a first zenith. It's timeless, brave, confident and full of raw emotion.
This is not Austropop. This is Viennese soul.