Released four years after his 1994 debut Seeing Is Believing,
Nicht von Dieser Welt was the breakthrough album from German R&B star
Xavier Naidoo. Featuring the singles "20,000 Meilen," "Fuhr Mich Ans Licht," and the
Martin Luther King-sampling "Freisein," it also includes collaborations with
Sabrina Setlur,
Moses Pelham, and
Illmatic, alongside cover versions of
David Bowie's "This Is Not America" and
Herbert Grönemeyer's "Flugzeuge im Bauch." ~ Jon O'Brien