Four years after „Wir sind die Vielen,“ Bernadette La Hengst is finally back with her new album „Visionäre Leere“ (Visionary Emptiness).
On the cover of her seventh solo album, she stands alone in a desert landscape, watering her guitar with a watering can – a bizarre, perplexing image. Is she filling the emptiness with new musical pop visions? Because where there’s nothing, something can emerge.
This time as well, she explores all the upheavals, injustices, contradictions, perplexity, and apparent hopelessness. Once again, she doesn’t stay on the polished, unquestioned surface, digs deep, asks questions, and doesn’t let go.
Seemingly humorous, yet also filled with sadness. Can everything always be restored? How long does it take until something becomes new again? The burnt-out post-coal landscapes of Lausitz (in Sorbian: Łužyca) need at least 30 years before life can emerge again.