Seen objectively, Anna Depenbusch is not quite tight. Honestly: How must a musician be when she sits down in a pop world, in which songs in the studio are composed of individual parts, polished and digitally spiced up, sits on a grand piano in an almost museum-like recording room and her new album without a break and recorded in front of witnesses in 18 minutes twice, scratched directly onto vinyl without the possibility to change or prettily anything? Well: either, as I said, crazy. Or very brave. And because no one has yet provided proof of the former in the case of Anna Depenbusch, it must be the second.
Being able to live from your own music
The 42-year-old calls the new record "real time", which is more than just an artistic stunt. It is a statement. Against digital alienation, against the need to protect yourself. She never wanted that. Anna Depenbusch is a gifted songwriter, she tells little stories that everyone finds themselves in, especially the sad ones. She has an enchantingly sparkling voice, and hardly anyone has ever come out of one of her concerts without having a crush on Hamburg, quite unsexually and across genders. Your fan base grows with every new song, with every concert. But still it's not for the masses. Crowds need drawers. And she doesn't feel like it.
She used to sing in nightclubs, set advertising jingles to music, produce calming soundtracks for MRTs, and dubbed various roles in "Baywatch". Since 2011 she has been able to live on her own music, after performing on "Inas Nacht". When the record label 105 and its contract were sold to Sony in 2015, the record label put other authors and composers at her side. You should choose, pop or chanson, should be "contemporary". She refused. "I like it when there is no time in albums," she says. She let herself be thrown out. Now she has her own label. And there she does what she wants.
Above all, she wants to play live, "The stage is my safe place," she says. This year Anna Depenbusch is going on tour. If you ever want to fall in love again: go there.
Anna Depenbusch loves Hamburg and her bike, is an enthusiastic hobby ornithologist and is now into quantum physics.
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