Naked Lunch

In the organizer's words:

To All And Everyone I Love

The world, big and small, close and a little further away, needs hugs, needs hugs. Perhaps even more so these days than ever before.

And the new, perhaps somewhat unexpected, even un-expected single from NAKED LUNCH, their first release in seven years, ten years after the soundtrack to the movie "Jack", twelve years after "All Is Fever", their last album to date, is a song like a hug. A strong, a heartfelt, a, dare we say, true one. So then - and only then! - even more beautiful and effective when it is reciprocated, returned, carried on ...

Oliver Welter, voice, heart and brain of the then Klagenfurt band since 1991, celebrates nothing less than life from Vienna with his fellow musicians Boris Hauf and Alex Jezdinsky, as well as producer Wolfgang Lehmann, the unbroken love of life with all its joys, ecstasies and possibilities, forfeited and kept promises, (resolved) contradictions, (overcome) adversities and resistances - "to the fall of every fascist".

Pop in the very best sense, the song draws its transcending duration and validity from the intense and so precious moments it traces and strips, specific and universal at the same time: "to places where we drink - when we laugh and cry / to those faces we need - when we're high and dry / to stories I've been told - to the truth and to the lie / to all and everyone I love". And: "to those kids out on the streets taking care of human needs / to Billy Wilder movies and to holidays in Greece / to wind in my hair and snow on my tongue / to all and everyone I love."

"To All And Everyone I Love" sings along as if by itself, an instant chorus of potentially many (!) voices of self-empowerment and self-knowledge, a hymn of unrestrained empathy that openly insists on itself as a principle. Perhaps pathetic, but a human, non-exaggerating, never excluding pathos, which not least clearly tells us that the human project has not (yet!) necessarily failed or does not have to fail.

And this is exactly how "To All And Everyone I Love", the single, precedes the new NAKED LUNCH album "Lights And A Slight Taste Of Death". Every bar, every sung sentence, every sound detail makes it clear why we need NAKED LUCH right now and why it's so wonderful that they're back: Now and now!