Max Raabe is so hip, so cool, and so German, it hurts. Never more so than on his new masterpiece KUSSEN KANN MAN NICHTALLEINE, a title which roughly translates as ONE CANNOT KISS ALONE. Now, the singer and entertainer from Berlin who has enchanted audiences as the leader of his Palast Orchester in New York's Carnegie Hall, at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, or during the wedding of Marilyn Manson and Dita von Teese in Ireland, finally steps into the international arena not quite alone, but definitely on his own.