This review from one of our favourite magazines in Germany simply made our day! Not only the observant and detailed chronicle of album “Spice, Gold and Tales Untold”, but also the company with which Patan is sharing the page: Bryan Ferry, Anastacia, Bush, Frank Zappa…

Here a part of the text, in translation from German “One doesn’t know where to direct one’s respect for this globetrotter with Romanian roots: to the rhythmic and soloistic guitar work? To the fact that the singer/song poet Ana Patan, along with bass giant Jonas Hellborg and Flower Kings drummer Zoltan Csorsz, recorded everything on analog tape? Her lyrics, which are funny, philosophical and cheeky? Sometimes dreamy, sometimes funky, sometimes African: “The Human” allows a rhythmic casualness à la Paul Simons Graceland flare up […] “How Could We Live Before” asks whether there was life before the internet.
Voc/ g / b/ dr – what a striking effect lies in this clear arrangement!” Good Times Magazine Dec 2023/Jan. 2024

In original “Man weiß gar nicht wohin mit dem Respect vor der Globetrotterin mit Rumänischen Wurzeln: zur rhythmisch wie solistisch amtlichen Gitarrenarbeit? Zum Fakt, dass die Singer / Songpoetin Ana Patan samt Bassgiganten Jonas Hellborg und Flower-Kings-trommler Zoltan Csorsz alles auf Analogband aufnahm? Zu ihren Texten, die witzig, philosophisch wie frech daher kommen? Mal veträumt, mal funky, mal afrikanisch: “The Human” lässt rhythmische lässigkeit à la Paul Simons Graceland aufflackern […] “How Could We Live Before” fragt, ob es vor dem Internet schon Leben gab. Voc/ g / b/ dr – welch frappierende Wirkung liegt in dieser klaren Anordnung!” Good Times Magazine Dec 2023/Jan. 2024