The new Orange Blue album „Superstar“ will be released on march 16th 2007!

+ + + +  All lyrics can be found here!  + + + +

Newsletter:

Orange Blue are still Vince Bahrdt and Volkan Baydar, both 35.

Their compositions and texts provide the broad projection surfaces for the emotionally charged, incomparable voice of Volkan Baydar.

But otherwise a lot has changed for Orange Blue over the past years.

They were at the initial high point of their success. Their first single, “She’s got that light,” was in the charts for months and could be heard everywhere. The first album “In love with a dream” went gold – at the time that was still the case for 250,000 albums.

In 2001, they released their second album, “Songs of liberty” – once again a big success. One of the title’s, “The sun on your face,” even became the theme song to a Hollywood movie, and another made it into the Disney production “Dinosaur.” “Powered by emotion” was a jingle for the TV channel SAT1.

The ensuing tours were sold out. Their careers actually only knew one direction: the way up. A total of more than a million albums were sold. But did that make them superstars? Today, it would still be inconceivable. What exactly is a superstar? Vince Bahrdt and Volkan Baydar didn’t let themselves be taken in, neither by their fans nor by the prevailing image codes a supposed superstar is supposed to abide by, nor by the seemingly inevitable prospect of another CD production with the people who had come to be their team – a team they already hadn’t felt right in for a long time.

They did something one doesn’t expect in the music industry, even more, something unheard of: They took the liberty to get rid of their record company, their management at the time, their producer team, their music publisher, their tour organizer. They made a clean break from absolutely everyone. At the height of their success, they exploded their entire network so that they could be free to make their own decisions, so that they could embark on a new way. Insiders know what that means: “Never change a winning team.” Endless discussions about rights and earnings, new orientation – one is mentally blocked, frustrated – for the most part, things like that never go well. So be it.

They could get out of everything, but not from the desire to quickly go back into the studio, to compose music, write songs. “Panta Rhei” contains a whole series of wonderful pop songs in the sophisticated tradition of Orange Blue, but the entire new infrastructure, which another equally good album would need to find its way from the studio to the public, hadn’t yet synchronized. At this time, the public actually only saw Orange Blue when they participated in the 2005 song contest, as well as at some festival concerts and during a tour they did with Lionel Richie.

Their new record company Universal remained cool and the musicians maintained their personal integrity. They had what they needed: the freedom to keep trying things out. Without the pressure to conform to the market or even the Orange Blue project. They embarked on the challenge to keep rediscovering themselves. And they took enough time to compose new songs and to write. They didn’t need to run after some kind of super success. They stayed true to what was artistically important for them and pursued their own intuition, their own standards. Production conditions which many other musicians can just dream about.

The result is now here: “Superstar” (2007), produced by Deekay and Orange Blue.