One Cannot Kiss Alone

Max Raabe, with the looks of Fred Astaire and the deadpan humor of Christopher Walken, embarks on a new North American tour with a new recording featuring the hip, sophisticated 12-piece Palast Orchester.

Germany's "impeccably tuxedoed," "wry, unsmiling, and nonchalantly charismatic" star (New York Times) has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Marilyn Manson's wedding, musically falling between vintage and vamp, cabaret and camp, Irving Berlin and Berlin-Mitte. With this run of performances, Raabe and his Palast Orchester are introducing a new kind of pop, straddling the classic and the futuristic. Their sound is as glamorous as it is ironic, a quirky homage to the aura of the Weimar Republic (Germany's "Roaring 20s").Can't Kiss Myself Alone is twelve tales of modern love told through a vintage lens - plus five of those happy-melancholic Raabe originals re-recorded as bonus tracks, for the first time in English. From the unsentimental and sensually swinging title-track to the tongue-in-cheek polka "Doctor, Doctor," Raabe's subjects range from the erotic to the sublime, all executed with discrete orchestral arrangements and impeccable vaudeville timing.