Maximilian Hecker

麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 总喜欢以“忧郁的流行赞美诗” 来形容自己的音乐。古典钢琴与假声的运用是麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 最大的特色，专辑以爱情与由此而生的忧伤为主题。麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 不仅抓住了英国流行音乐中最美妙的旋律，与生俱来就拥有那优雅又忧郁的气质。 麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 巧妙地利用古典乐中的曲式行进，使那些被作词者刻意回避掉、Beatles式的表白语句，由他吐露出来却是令人期待的，也异常深情。每首歌曲都非常动听，细腻又绚烂。而曾作为电子音乐制作人的麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 在《Green Night》、《Cold Wind Blowing》等歌曲中将电音与钢琴配合得无丝毫不适之处。《Over》中钢琴退了一步，木吉他扫弦，配着沙哑、微微恳求的嗓音：My girl, don't leave......《Flower Four》中木吉他与钢琴的旋律互补。《Cold Wind Blowing》后半部分的电吉他轰鸣与麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 失真的嗓音让人不可预料。《Infinite Love Songs》将这些元素结合起来，麦斯米兰·海克 (Maximilian Hecker) 通透的假声、轻快跳跃的电子节拍与钢琴。整张专辑保持同一基调，在细节上又不缺丰富。 Maximilian Hecker is a German singer-songwriter and writer from Berlin, known for his melancholic, ethereal Dream Pop that has particularly become popular in countries such as Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Hecker was initially signed to Kitty-yo Records in 2001, has worked with V2 Records, PIAS, Pastel Music and Gold Typhoon Music amongst others and has played about 20 East Asian tours and about twelve in Europe as well as one worldwide tour in cooperation with German organisation Goethe Institut in 2003/2004. Collaborating with producers such as Youth (The Verve, Embrace, Paul McCartney), Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure), Guy Sternberg (Michael Wollny, Mary Komasa) or Johannes Feige (Axel Prahl, Dota Kehr), the enigmatic falsetto singer has released ten studio albums to date. His songs – that he himself calls "lullabies for grown-ups" – were used in popular K-dramas like "The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince" or "Hello, My Twenties!" and in Korean and Chinese TV ads for Samsung, Motorola or Dunkin' Donuts. Aside from Taiwanese indie pop stars Faith Yang, Sodagreen, Waa Wei as well as K-Pop star Leo (VIXX), Hecker has collaborated with American singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata, namely on the duets "Untouchable" (2015) and "Headstone" (2019). He portrayed his career as well as his experiences on his travels through the Far East in the autobiography "The Rise and Fall of Maximilian Hecker" (2012). His debut novel "Lottewelt", an autofictional story about unrequited love and self-discovery in the maze of Seoul, was published in 2023.