Pascal Geiser - You Can Change Your Hat

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2024
Time:37:27 
Size:86,1 MB 
Label:Bluespage Productions
Styles:Blues
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. I Found a Love - 3:50
 2. Rub It in - 3:26
 3. Handle with Care (2023 remastered) - 3:05
 4. Rainy Autumnday - 4:16
 5. You Can Change Your Hat - 3:34
 6. I'll Never See Your Eyes - 6:06
 7. Snow Turns into Rain - 4:45
 8. About to Get Gone - 3:31
 9. Restless Soul - 4:51

How do I build on a successful album? It's best not to ask yourself this question at all. Instead, the focus is entirely on the music. Just like Pascal Geiser does with his second album. It was quite a thing when Pascal Geiser, born in Erlinsbach, SO, placed his album debut at number 2 in the Swiss album charts almost six years ago. Especially since he is not at home in a hip, trendy style of music, but in good old timeless blues. While Geiser recorded his first album in Los Angeles with Eric Corne (John Mayall, Walter Trout and many more), he now relies entirely on Swiss work for his second album with the meaningful title “You Can Change Your Hat”. Pascal Geiser and his band recorded the nine tracks for “You Can Change Your Hat” in the “creative space” – Studio 21’s self-promotion right on the border between the city and the agglomeration of Bern. An album on which he explores the blues in all its fullness; its playfulness, colorfulness, depth, lightness but also dark melancholy."I Found a Love" starts with a lot of forward momentum and horns, hints of big band groove cannot be explained away. “Rub It In” continues the gala sound, with a little less tempo, but all the more palatable, even flirtatious. “Handle With Care” follows; This mystical number that only seems dark, but in fact is one thing above all: noble! But that's it for the moment with good humor or nobleness. “Rainy Autumn Day” feels exactly like that: gray, helpless and discouraged, desperate. And yet - and this is one of Pascal Geiser's trademarks - this song also has a wonderful power. With the title track "You Can Change Your Hat" the stricken man finds his way back on track: sexy brass, bold beat - and that Realization: If you can't change your head, you can at least get a fresh hat. “I'll Never See Your Eyes” is perhaps the most surprising track on Pascal Geiser's new album: thoughtful, laid back and with plenty of space for thoughts that can sometimes get lost on a long, dark street. Also “Snow Turns Into "Rain" reports in a slow, arranged manner about the fact that life isn't always all sunshine - yes, that's what blues must be able to convey. But on the home stretch of the album, Pascal Geiser once again finds a way out of the mess with “About To Get Gone”, the second pre-release single, and sets off into the wide world with a wink and a lot of new momentum. Just as it should be for a “restless soul” that always goes its own way, only keeps still from time to time, feels free like a bird and moves through life with open eyes and wings. “You Can Change Your Hat” is the next milestone in a career characterized by a lot of persistence and passion. Since he was allowed to attend drum lessons at the age of 8 - his father is already the drummer in a regionally well-known blues band - Pascal Geiser has continued his path unwaveringly. In his youth, he played the horns in rock formations, discovered his love for singing, felt the fire for the blues still burning within him and picked up the blues harp as soon as he walked to the microphone. By the way, Pascal Geiser teaches himself to play the guitar on the side. With his victory at the Swiss Blues Challenge in Basel in 2016, his path leads to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis/TN. There he not only made it to the quarter-finals, but also met Eric Corne, with whom he ultimately recorded his much-acclaimed debut album. With “You Can Change Your Hat” Geiser consistently continues his path and presents blues as blues can be – playful, multifaceted and diverse.

You Can Change Your Hat
You Can Change Your Hat