MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Yes Jung, the song clearly bears George’s musical signature.
Speaking of Photographer and Musicians: Why not visit a virtual exhibition together? Even if the members of the MLT Club are scattered all over the world, we can meet at least once in a virtual place and say: I was there too.
60 years ago, the young graphics student Klaus Voormann met the Beatles in the Kaiserkeller on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. It was to be the beginning of an unprecedented career – as a graphic designer and as a musician. The rest is well known history.
In his honor there was a small exhibition in Lüneburg that dealt with his life’s work as an artist and photographer (I hope the virtual tour works)
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=1aJcwJobd3B
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By the way Auckland: a nice drone flight over Auckland city and surroundings:
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Musically, my little trip to New Zealand is gradually coming to an end. Unless one of you knows any nice New Zealand songs. Of course, like everywhere else in the world, the charts there are populated by younger bands and singers who produce pop or electronic pop. Then for example names like „Lorde“, „The Naked and Famous“, „Ladyhawke“, „Gin Wigmore“ and „Opshop“ pop up. If you are interested, you can just google it. But wait a minute: “Th’ Dudes”, founded in Auckland in 1970, are said to enjoy a certain cult status in New Zealand. I don’t know if that’s true, but see for yourself:
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Hi Jung,
thanks for sending the interview. Ringo also had a certain interest in photography. Or at least had fun with it. Whether he was a good photographer I cannot judge. I have already posted the following video clip elsewhere, but it fits the topic very well, so again 😀
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Then I read that right, Dan. I recently saw a note mentioning that a final Beatles song will be reconstructed. I thought this information was outdated and related to “Free as a bird”. I’m curious how this „new“ old song will sound like. I like Free as a bird, but it sounds a lot like John Lennon and not a lot like the Beatles.
The Beatles fan community was probably already very active and couldn’t wait until the finished, official song will finally be released and simply covered the song themselves. Sounds good so far.
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The following song is a co-production of Belgian-Australian singer Gotye and New Zealand singer Kimbra, who was born in Hamilton. When I first heard the song on the radio, I only noticed the chorus, which reminded me somehow of Sting in style. And I didn’t know who wrote this song for a long time (until I did research for this topic 😀 ) All in all an interesting song and an extraordinary music video.
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Of course, a trip on the legendary Kiwi Rail should not be missing at this point. Nice that there is so much film material on the internet. The most beautiful and professional documentation I have found on this is a German television production. Unfortunately not very helpful in this case. Of the English language travelogues, I liked this one the best. Very nice footage.
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Briolette Kah Bic Runga was born in Christchurch and according to wikipedia is one of the most successful musicians in her country. Her first solo album „Drive“ went six times platinum in New Zealand and her second album „Beautiful Collision“ is the best selling album in New Zealand to date.
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Yeah Tom, „Sechs Herzen die brennen“ (six hearts that are burning) inspired by Rammstein’s 2001 song “Mein Herz brennt” (my heart is burning). Rammstein is still quite active, unlike Nina Hagen, around whom things have become very quiet. As you rightly said, she’s been around for a long time. By the way, Nina’s full name is Catharina. She had her first commercial success in 1974 with the song „Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen“ (You forgot the color film). A nice parody of German holiday culture. At that time she was still living in the former GDR.
Most recently, Nina Hagen was involved in an interesting project together with her daughter Cosma Shiva Hagen (and that brings me back to the topic). It was called “Rilke Project”, named after the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (born in Prague in 1875 and died in Montreux/Switzerland in 1926). In German-speaking countries, Rilke enjoys great popularity because of his poetry and is considered one of the most important poets of modern literature. I don’t know if he’s well known in English-speaking countries (but it doesn’t matter). The “Rilke Project” consists of a group of German artists and actors who have tried to interpret Rilke’s literary works in a musical way. So they tried to create a musical cover version of his lyrics (phew, and that brings us back to “great covers”).
This transformation sounds like this, for example: „Liebes Lied” (Lovesong ). The poem „Liebes Lied” by Rainer Maria Rilke deals with the question of which higher power controls our feelings, especially the feeling of love for another person. I have attached the original text and tried to translate it into English, which may not always make sense, since Rilke uses a very old-fashioned German (also I don’t know what gender the word „soul“ has in English. In German it is feminine. So I used „she“ in the translation)
PS: sorry that the post is so long. But I find the idea of putting classical poetry into music very interesting and beautiful.
Rainer Maria Rilke: „Liebes-Lied“
Wie soll ich meine Seele halten
das sie nicht an deine rührt?
Wie soll ich sie hinheben
über dich zu anderen Dingen?
Über dich zu anderen Dingen
Doch alles was uns anrührt
Dich und mich
Nimmt uns zusammen
wie ein Bogenstrich
Der aus zwei Saiten eine Stimme zieht
O süßes Lied, O süßes Lied
Meine Seele
Ach gerne möchte ich sie bei irgendwas
Verlorenem im Dunkel unterbringen
an einer fremden stillen Stelle
die nicht weiter schwingt
wenn deine Tiefen schwingen
wenn deine Tiefen schwingen
Doch alles, was uns anrührt
dich und mich
nimmt uns zusammen wie ein Bogenstrich
der aus zwei Saiten eine Stimme zieht.
O süßes Lied
Auf welches Instrument sind wir gespannt?
Und welcher Geiger hat uns in der Hand?
Lovesong
How am I supposed to hold my soul
that she doesn’t touch yours?
How am I supposed to raise her
about you to other things?
about you to other things?
But everything that touches us
You and me
brings us together
like a bow stroke
that forms a voice from two strings
O sweet song, O sweet song
my soul
O I would like to place it
with something lost in the dark
in a strange quiet place
which does not swing any further
when your depths swing
when your depths swing
But everything that touches us
you and me
brings us together like a bow stroke
that forms a voice from two strings.
O sweet song
On which instrument we are stretched?
And which violinist holds us in hand?
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Anika Rose Moa was born in Auckland, but she spent her childhood in Christchurch, on the country’s South Island. She began writing songs at age 13 and won the New Zealand Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist and Songwriter in 2002 and Best Female Solo Artist in 2008 and 2010.
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Hi JP,
thank you for thinking of me. Maybe you should mow the lawn more often and see what treasures your phone still has in store for you. 😀 I bought the Animals album after we were talking about it the other day, I was too curious. My Pink Floyd collection now includes „The Piper at the Gates of Dawn“ (my very first Pink Floyd album), „The Wall“ (of course…), „Animals“, „The Dark Side of the Moon“ and “The Endless River”. Not much, but at least a beginning. Thanks for sending the Coverversion of the song Dogs by the Band „Out of phase“. I like the cover version of Dogs a lot. As you said, a little more electronic and much more ambiente music. The guitar part sounds at some parts a little softer and not quite as distorted as in the original, in other places the guitar is then very reminiscent of the original again and runs like a thread through the entire piece. The female voice and the drumming part give the song some additional charm. All in all an interesting and beautiful cover version
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“Music is one of the great things uniting all of us”, I totally agree with you Chris.
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality“
– John Lennon –
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Well said David ! The song also had a very special effect on me when I first heard it.
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Hi Tom,
whether everything was better in the “good old days”, who knows? But sensory overload is certainly a disease of civilization, which at least children and young people find it difficult to escape. Personally, I experience it as very relaxing, when I can withdraw for a certain time on vacation. No TV, no newspaper and no internet. Just a few books, nice music and the countryside around me. It works. Nowadays, something like this is often interpreted as lazy. Perhaps this is also a problem of today. Socially recognized is the one who is constantly doing something, is in action and is busy. I have some friends who permanently tell me that they are stressed (under pressure). I know they cause this stress themselves and that it is completely unnecessary. But somehow, especially here, a lot of people seem to define their self-image through having stress. Only those who have stress have achieved something. The high song of the meritocracy.
Here are a few more relaxing impressions from a sea voyage to New Zealand in the 1960s:
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Hi David, how long would you be traveling to New Zealand? Depending on the Airline I choose, I could start at Frankfurt a.M. and then fly to Bangkok or Singapore (around 10-12 hours). From there on to New Zealand (again the same flight time). Alternatively, starting from Düsseldorf Airport it would also go via Dubai, then you have a total of 3 flights and the whole fun lasts about 28 hours (depending on how long the intermediate stops are). Neighbors of us flew to Australia a few years ago. The trip must have been great overall, but because of the flight time, they wouldn’t make that trip again. On the other hand, complaining at the highest level: The classic travel time for the first pioneers from Europe to New Zealand was round about 3 months by sailing ship. It is quite impressive what hardships and efforts previous generations have taken to reach distant destinations and remote regions of the world. Out of curiosity, greed for profit or simply the hope for a new and better life.
With the modern steamships at the beginning of the 30’s the journey was much faster. Now the ship journey took „only“ 28-34 days. Here is one such liner that sailed regularly between Britain and NZ. MS Rangitata was a passenger liner owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. She was one of three sister ships delivered to the company in 1929 for the All-Red Route between Britain and New Zealand. Compared to today’s cruise giants, it seems to be contemplative, quiet and maybe also deadly boring 😀. Or people were just more relaxed back then and didn’t need constant entertainment.
