Mystic Alpin - Touch By Touch

How about a trip back in time to the summer of 1985, when three school friends wrote a song in an air-raid shelter using a 4-track cassette recorder, which was to become a disco fox anthem of the 1980s. Exactly 40 years later, with almost 200 million views on YouTube, JOY with nearly 300,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, tours in Asia and the USA, currently represented at numerous 80s festivals, TOUCH BY TOUCH has achieved cult status. 

An anniversary worth celebrating in the form of the 40 Years Anniversary Edition. Fred Jaklitsch, co-composer, co-author, and singer of JOY, fulfills a heartfelt wish with his band MYSTIC ALPIN. In his own words: ”I owe so much to this song; my entire career as a musician would be unthinkable without it. A mix of luck, inspiration, and the support of great people makes TOUCH BY TOUCH probably the most important song on the soundtrack of my life.”

MYSTIC ALPIN: What visually resembles “Beauty and the Beast” is a 13-member duo on stage that does not move mountains, but makes them sing. Austro-Pop is enriched by a world music variant, so to speak: Austrian world music, hiking boots, dance floor, and Latin feeling are no longer a contradiction; the “Kernöllatina” and the Boy Group Senior find their common wavelength. 

When an all-star band /EAV/SEER/HARDBRADLER lets the Brazilian groove machine FERNANDO PAIVA roll out a rhythmic carpet for them, with JEANNINE ROSSI, powerful in all genres, DSDS-tested, teams up with FRED JAKLITSCH, mastermind/lyricist/composer of SEER for almost 30 years (14 No. 1 albums, very first No. 1: Touch By Touch /JOY 1985), then yodeling melts with Afrobeat, and spiritual sound healing elements in 432 Hz seamlessly transition into danceable, dialectal, sing-along anthems.