Hi, Mirko Hirsch here. Thank you for your message. I've been researching and curating the music for VTO for more than 15 years and been in touch with most of the producers, musicians and singers - also with Thilo himself in the 2000s - including Angela. May I ask you to send me an e-mail via my Bandcamp page or [email protected] for more information? It sounds as if you were a part of the Thilo/Silke/Lothar studio days.

The lyrics are meant to be ambigous. My first song about that topic "Lost in Alphaville" was actually about the original band member Frank Mertens, who quit the band Alphaville after the "Forever Young" album but could also be understood as being "lost" in a big city. The lyrics in "Into the Night" can be interpreted in different ways as well. It could be a group of people going to a concert of the band Alphaville or to a city called Alphaville or about the return of Frank Mertens. The line "The lonely boy is returning" derives from Frank's solo project after quitting the band called "The lonely Boys". So, there's quite a lot to discover in the lyrics of both songs. In the end, it's mainly an hommage to the band Alphaville and their first album, which has been a huge inspiration for my own songwriting with songs such as "Big in Japan", "Forever Young", "Sounds like a melody", "A victory of love", and all the other great tracks on it.