Our contest entry “Berlin That City Vanished” has received its first review — written by journalist and author Gunnar Sohn and published on ichsagmal.com under the title “Berlin verschwindet im Rückspiegel” (Berlin Vanishes in the Rear-View Mirror).
Sohn describes the track as sounding like a night train passing through a city that has forgotten its own name, and places it in a lineage running from Pet Shop Boys through Wolfsheim to Bowie’s Berlin years — while noting that LCR5 step out into their own cold rather than leaning on those names. He calls the result “a séance with synthesizers” and closes with an appeal to vote for the song — “as thanks for four minutes of Berlin ghost-light.” (All quotes translated from the German original.)
The review also explores the role of author Tom Liehr, whose novel “Im wechselnden Licht der Jahre” gave the song its title, and who appears in the video — a fictional song title that left the book, became music, and returned as an image.
Read the full review (German): ichsagmal.com/berlin-verschwindet-im-rueckspiegel
Listen and vote: hofa-contest.com/song/23975
Our thanks to Gunnar Sohn for the words, and to everyone who has voted so far.
