The album title is a
play on words. The cover painting depicts a
laburnum plant, which in German is called
goldregen. Klaus Dinger's
grand piano was made by a company called "Goldregen". Recording began on 2 May 1998 at Klaus Dinger's studio in Düsseldorf, starting with the album's opener "Zeeland Wunderbar"; the only track to have been written before sessions began. It features Klaus Dinger's mother Renate on vocals and is a light-hearted, humorous track about life in
Zeeland. On 27 May, Klaus and Victoria Wehrmeister convened in Dinger's Dutch studio to create three harmonium based tracks (which close the album), whilst Rembrandt Lensink and Thomas Dinger finalised "Zeeland Wunderbar" in Düsseldorf. Four days later the whole band met up in Düsseldorf to record tracks 2–9.
Goldregen was the first musical collaboration between the Dinger brothers since 1983; a product of their 1997 reunion following a long and bitter legal battle over the rights to
La Düsseldorf. Klaus described
Goldregen as a "family album". Despite this he also expressed regret that Andreas Reihse had not been able to join the sessions (due to commitments with
Kreidler). Klaus cited his musical influences for the record as including
John Cale's
Music for a New Society, the "almost sacred atmosphere" of that album being something he consciously tried to recreate on
Goldregen. ==Track listing==