Hey Hey Galaxy /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/ HE IS A TRANSITION BOY
When I first met René his apartment in Berlin was tidy and clean. René did not have much furniture, neither pictures on the wall. He had a toilet with black walls and a flatmate. His floor was covered by about 30 rows of records each of them reaching about 3 meters into the room. It was impossible to move.
René is an encyclopedia of music, always a step ahead of everyone else. Always detached from the common cool. Always in his own peculiar world.
Of course René recorded this album at home. In the middle of all those records. In the middle of thousands of references, influences, spin doctors. How does somebody like him decide to make a record? Somebody who knows it all, who even owns it all. Does he try to find the gap and do what has not been done? Does he try to free himself from his own knowledge?
/ THAT‘s WHAT SOFT BOYS DO
Hey Hey Galaxy is a hommage to the records that René loves the most. Stereolab, Spiritualized, My Bloodie Valentine – Hey Hey Galaxy takes a trip around the cosmos of the shoegazing bands of the 90ies, passes by some Pet Shop Boys melody lines, takes a rest in his own kitchen and finally takes us all for a ride shouting „We will rock you“.
Hey Hey Galaxy is a record for an early morning alone on the roof top. For a drunken night night with somebody on that furry carpet, for breakfast and strong coffee at 4pm, for a night trip on the Autobahn. Hey Hey Galaxy is a dark record, moody but sparkling with bright colours.
It sounds like a puzzle that René has put together. Every little bit of it makes sense. The few sung statements, the 12 cups of coffee running through the coffee maker in the beginning of „Bad Morning“. Hey Hey Galaxy is a record with a perfect climax, a record that takes you up, let‘s you float on your own and brings you back home safely.
René Gleitsmann is Hey Hey Galaxy. Hey Hey Galaxy is Renés first record.