Berlin is cool – again and again, because Berlin is a city in which trends develop. The fact that these disappear again just as fast doesn’t matter – the next „big thing“ is already available. And in this way every Berlin band gets its chance to throw caution to the wind and have their time under the spotlight.
Not so Goldfish. Since 1999 Danuta, Ef, Benni and Chris who before already played in bands such as Helicopter, Häwi Mädels, The Chud or High Jinx have made music together. Music which perfectly captures the spirit of the times rather than running to keep up with it. Trying to describe Goldfish, names such as Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, The Breeders or Portishead crop up but only in terms of trying to describe them. They do however have one thing in common with all of these artists: intensity. „If something really touches me inside, I have to write a song about it." singer Danuta says. "Together we tinker for a long time, until everything fits. There are also sometimes violent arguments, but in the end you all come together again – like a family."
That is evident on their debut album Coming Home. There is the surreal declaration of love, ›Carry Your Name‹, the furiously hypnotic ›Rock the Floor‹, a soundtrack to the remoteness of pain on tracks ›Snow‹ and ›About Today‹ which express shock and disgust toward the voyeurism of the press after 9/11. The opener ›My House‹ explores the destruction of the place we call home while ›Watch Out for the Bird Songs‹, is a call to retain compassion. "I sing about my own experiences and about those of humans who I know. These songs are like children and it all comes together now – on an album." However, one of these children was adopted: ›No Tears‹ (originally by Tuxedomoon).
All in all ›Coming Home‹ is an album, which thrives on the depth and authenticity of the Goldfish sound. This also convinced Thomas Stern, former member of the cult band Crime and the City Solution and today the producer of Meret Becker and Katharina Frank and also Seeed and Bela B. producer Olaf Bruns. Stern lends his bass to some of the album tracks while Bruns did the new mixdown of ›Carry Your Name‹.
Vielen Dank fürs Ädden. Anbei mein kleines Goldfischgedicht.
Der Goldfisch
Ein Specht pickt mit seinem Schnabel einen Schriftzug auf eine Astgabel
Darin klagt er über schlechte Zeiten die Würmer würden nicht gleiten
Als auf einmal von gar nicht fern nähern sich n paar Bären
Einer trägt weils schmückt nen Goldfisch im Maul, ganz beglückt
Der Bär tritt auf einen Frosch, rutscht aus und macht wosch mit der Schnauze gen Himmel liegt er da, der Fisch im Maul auf einmal ganz blass, wie ein Schimmel
Etwas durchtrennt hängt der Goldfisch da und denkt mist hätt ich doch beim Specht gepennt
