{"id":10134,"date":"2026-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovelab.berlin\/pressetext-jupiter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:07:08","slug":"press-release-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lovelab.berlin\/en\/pressetext-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bbJupiter\u00ab | Tim Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Utopian music<\/h2>\n\n

Tim Ra has landed on Earth and is bringing fresh utopias: twelve tracks about free spaces, free love, and a free society\u2014without work as it is understood today. On his seventh studio album, Ra condenses biography and social vision into a grooving artistic manifesto. Release date 06\/10\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

In the process, influences from soul, hip-hop, and club merge into music that glides over the dancefloor \u2014 like the Studio 54-glam-inspired \u00bbLoveparty International,\u00ab which has sex on the beach with elegantly eroticized rap and a \u00bbcraving for mussels,\u00ab while asking about our role in the cosmos in deep lines about the \u00bbsalt in our tears.\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n

First sketches were created over twenty years ago. Following the success of his bands \u00bbWohnung\u00ab and \u00bbNo Underground,\u00ab he laid the foundation for his current approach to music through all-night improvised electro sessions with Chilly Gonzales and Raz Ohara at the Berlin club Maria. And that is also how many of the tracks on \u00bbJupiter\u00ab emerged from long stretches of musical and vocal improvisation with musical friends, which he sculpturally shaped into songs on the computer.<\/p>\n\n

Ras's many years of work as a political artist spell out \u00bbJupiter\u00ab as a resounding yes to life. While his dark electronic opus \u00bbWe Are Anonymous\u00ab processed the war on terror and thus revived the protest song, as Max Dax wrote in 2015 in the analyzed Frankfurter Rundschau on two pages<\/a>, \u00bbJupiter\u00ab carves a way out of the darkness \u2014 including one's own depression.<\/p>\n\n

Out of the positive impulse emerged his new music and video label \u00bblovelab.berlin\/\u00ab, thus his trio \u00bbLiebende\u00ab was born, whose funky, club-infused improvisations fulfill the longing for happiness and groove. And thus an album was created that is dedicated to a feasible, concrete utopia which nevertheless reaches into cosmic infinity.<\/p>\n\n

With dreamy tracks like \u00bbAm Ufer\u00ab (On the Shore), \u00bbIm Elysium\u00ab (In Elysium) or \u00bbWir sind die Wellen\u00ab (We Are the Waves), which tell of being in love like gentle touches, a sense of vastness arises that does not exhaust itself in individual happiness. Here, home is more than a private relationship, a specific group or nation \u2014 it \u00bbonce was the sea,\u00ab the place of longing where the illusion of identity dissolves \u2014 and a humanity freed from hardship and toil is already in its initial throes.<\/p>\n\n

Ra's utopian message ultimately culminates in the track \u00bbMenschheit\u00ab (Humanity). Framed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u00bbs famous anti-racist \u00abI Have a Dream\" speech, the piece tells of a society that\u2014liberated from external constraints\u2014grows through its pain and softens, instantly striking a chord with 200,000 viewers on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n

In this place of vulnerability opens up the longing night, sung of by Olivia and Ra with stardust-shimmering vocoder voices, which holds hope and gives strength. For especially in the darkness, it is the trust that everything will turn out well in the end that counts. Twelve tracks with one message: dreams come true. Even if not always in the way one had dreamed them.<\/p>\n\n

On the shore | Tim Ra<\/h3>\n
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