Release: WOLFGANG PEREZ - WHO CARES WHO CARES

WOLFGANG PEREZ - WHO CARES WHO CARES

(Fun In The Church)

Release date: Friday, August 27th 2021
Who cares, who cares?!

Does anyone remember the great Barry Künzel?! Of the band Butter?! The funk-pop duo Q?!
Or Fuschimuschi?! All this funk-, jazz- or hip-hop-influenced, wondrous psychedelic soul
music from German lands?

A quarter of a century later, "Who Cares Who Cares" is the name of Wolfgang Pérez's solo
debut album. In recent years, he was mainly busy as the keyboardist of the native German
speaking pop band GOLF. Now he is preparing to leave the German pop worlds as a solo
artist - supported by an opulent session band. As the son of a Spaniard, Wolfgang grew up
multilingual anyway - an alien by nature, so to speak.

His music, on the other hand - caught between indie pop, funk, jazz and tropicalismo -
doesn't sound at all like coming from someone who doesn't know where he belongs. Quite
the opposite: It sounds like the big wide interconnected world of pop out there and inside of
us.

The result is some groovy music between Frank Ocean, The Whitest Boy Alive, Phoenix,
Melvin Van Peebles, Marcos Valle and the record collection of a lovable jazz records
collecting uncle. And Wolfgang is hailing from Essen in the Ruhr region, of all places. Yes,
why not, or, to stay with the album title: Who cares, who cares?!
On the cover packshot we see the album title scrawled in countless variations. The short
story: Wolfgang started the following call in his messenger portals one night:
- Write "Who cares who cares" at last 10 times now.
- Do it in your own style.
- You are free to vary a bit like using small letters or writing without spaces between the
words.
- You don't have to go crazy, if you feel like it, keep it simple.

The cover now shows a colourful collage of his care-taking friends.
By the way, Wolfgang was born in the year the white stork was bird of the year (who cares,
who cares?). 27 years later, he proves himself to be an accomplished composer and
arranger on this eight-song debut album. Oh ja, this young Mr. Pérez, at any rate, is
someone we would like to call a wunderkind. A truly heart-warming wimp on the microphone,
and a virtuoso keyboardist who immediately knows how to get something out of every sound.

If he had lived in another time, say the 18th century, he would have composed chamber
music and orchestral works for the nobility at some court. Or written, you guessed it, operas
for the opera houses. He could have arranged great East Soul records for Manfred Krug in
the GDR in the 70s, or provided a fancy score for Western German television for a crime
scene instead of CAN's Irmin Schmidt. In the 80s, he could have come up with a cool NDW
act for Intercord, which no one would have understood back then, but which today would be
traded on Discogs for 180 Euros. As a 7" single, mind you...

Enough with the steep theses and references. There are already far too many in this text.
And Wolfgang Perez is living and making music here and now! But: Who cares, who cares?!

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