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It was too dark for Berlin singer and actress Nina Ernst in Germany. That's why she went to Brazil and made an amazing career there. But then came the pandemic, the great decelerator. Where before the whole world was brightly colored, suddenly an infinite and seemingly eerie gloom stretched out. But Nina Ernst, as a connoisseur of Brazil's multi-colored, brightly shining sun, appreciates the coloring of darkness. After all, without darkness there is no light, no colors. And because someone has to defend the darkness in the sparkle of colors, Nina Ernst uses the quiet phase to write new songs with her own lyrics around this comforting realization. Shaken straight from the soul, they take a mysteriously poetic and melancholically beautiful, but also humorous and cheerfully ironic, look at the world. And yes, also on love, of course. Love is at least as ambivalent as darkness. For example, Nina Ernst looks through "The Window" at empty spaces: "The window is old, it only observes as an eye in the sea of time, it listens to the eternal clicking of the clock - and the window once saw us as a couple." Musically, the German-language chansons contain various elements of jazz, oriental sounds and classical song. But even if the basic mood is minor rather than major, "Dunkles Licht" does not wallow in melancholy sadness. Nina Ernst shows that only dark light makes the colors shine. After all, the sea is at its bluest when the sky is already black as thunder, but the sun is still shining on the water through a gap. In a way, "Dunkles Licht" captures this phenomenon in text and sound. And that is a very cheerful prospect.

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