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With Time Traveler Ute Lemper manages the unusual feat that the listener doesn't even notice the 23 years that lie between individual songs. The present in the past and the past in the present enter into an osmosis. Musically, Ute Lemper frees herself from all categories with her new album. Depending on socialization and personal preferences, you can hear these songs as pop, rock, jazz, soul or chanson, all at once or just as Ute Lemper. She no longer wants to serve expectations, but lets herself be inspired by songs that she likes to hear herself. This includes references to artists and bands such as Hiatus Kaiyote, John Legend, Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Annie Lennox, Erykah Badu or Robert Glasper without wanting to copy any of them. All songs are 100% Ute Lemper. In some pieces she takes a lot of risk in terms of sound, initially lures the listener down a completely wrong track, as in the title track, in others she hides small, surprising details in the production with which she always enhances the songs, herself and not least the sensory perception of the ear put to the test again. Time Traveler is a very personal album, but its message goes far beyond Ute Lemper's own life experience. With this offering, Ute Lemper made a present to herself. And yet, first and foremost, it's an album for the people that works like a signpost. Almost every listener can identify with the ruthless self-honesty with which Ute Lemper reflects on her life in a very accessible way.