"Alles ist nur Übergang" (translates as: "Everything is only transition"): This is the name of Max Rieger's new album. One can regard this as an artistic credo, as a self-description, as an aesthetic program. With Max Rieger it has always been like this; everything has always been in transition: in becoming, in flux. For over a decade, he has been one of the most influential artists in German pop, more versatile and inventive than almost anyone else. With his group Die Nerven, he has given electrically amplified guitar rock in this country a new shape and a new edge. Five albums Die Nerven have released since 2012, most recently their black album in 2022, sinister, hard, at the same time nihilistic and ironic music, carried by great wisdom and knowledge of the wisdom of the primitive. Max Rieger is also a great creator of sound, he is someone who knows how to refine music and ideas, who is inspired as much as he inspires. For a whole generation of young artists he has become an important, formative partner and mentor, as a producer and as a supporting songwriter. He has produced the album "Alles war schön und nichts tat weh" for Casper 2022, worked with Mia Morgan, Stella Sommer, IlgenNur, Jungstötter and Drangsal, and most recently with the legendary noise pioneers Swans. If you want to gauge the true greatness of Max Rieger, you - of course - have to listen to his solo albums, which he releases under the name All diese Gewalt. "Kein Punkt wird mehr fixiert" was the name of the solo debut in 2014, since then two more albums have been released, the majestically soft "Welt in Rock / International 10/11/2023 8.10 EUR Klammern" in 2016 and the cool "Andere" from 2020. "Alles ist nur Übergang" is now his fourth work as All diese Gewalt, it continues the great lines of Rieger "s work and yet raises his art to a new level: his music has never sounded so organic, so floating, so seemingly effortlessly played along and at the same time intense, with an improbable sense of dramaturgy, for the right balance between the drifting of the sounds and the sudden all-changing break.
