MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Jung, thanks for the three US musicians. I already missed Joan Jett and Sheryl Crow (there are just so incredibly many good female musicians, so far we have only seen the tip of the iceberg). Good choice!
Yes Mona and Lisa’s live performance is great. You have already convinced me: I will never listen to any other music in the future! 🙂
PS: But there are also some Canadians missing.
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And here a compatriot of Mona and Lisa: Christina Stürmer from Linz (third largest city in Austria)
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Last but not least: Boy (a german-swiss co-production)
“Boy” is a music duo consisting of the Zurich singer Valeska Steiner and the Hamburg musician Sonja Glass:
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Hi David, thanks for the video and your interesting contribution. The idea is exciting and clever: record your own voice in different pitches and then overlay them to achieve multi-part harmonies. The result reminds me a bit of the Boswell Sisters and the Andrew Sisters.
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Jung thanks for sharing the two madonna videos. Yes, Madonna as a musician is actually a topic in its own right. I saw her music similar to you: fun and superficial. But very big fun. The last album I own from her is from 2005 “Confessions On A Dance Floor“. I like that quite well. “Isla Bonita” I also still enjoy and some of her first big hits I really like to hear. Madonna’s great strength was that she was constantly reinventing herself and always introducing new music and fashion trends. You’re right: the two tracks “Frozen” and “The Power of Good-Bye” usher in a musical trend change for Madonna. Her music sounds more mature, more adult and one notices that she has gone through a developmental leap (at this point it would be quite interesting to see what has changed in her life. Sometimes drastic events in life lead to such changes or maturity processes. Not only with musicians…). Now the funny thing: I have the album “ray of light” from which both pieces are taken from in my CD shelf and have never heard it (it is from the estate of Manuela). Now you have aroused my curiosity, thank you. I will listen to the album at leisure.
What do you actually think of this piece of music? I like the energy and charisma of the singer very well. The accompanying album is unfortunately only mediocre (oh yes and in the music video is also skateboarding again) 🙂
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Hi Jacki, thanks for your detailed information. Now I am well informed about the music scene in Canada. I know that Avril Lavigne makes very special music and this does not necessarily meet the taste here in the forum. But during the MLT advent calendar I met another Lavigne fan. And I thought: where there is one there might be two or even three. I also like Shania Twain very much, but unfortunately you don’t hear anything from her anymore. At least here with us. I have two CDs by Sarah McLachlan. Beautiful music. Regarding the living (or housing) situation of Jung and you, I know that you live at the one end of the road and Jung at the other end. And there are 4996.93 km in between by car (that’s a rough 2917.9663 miles). But remember, Jung drives a fast car. So you are almost neighbors. 🙂
PS: Canuckers, is that how you say it? Doesn’t sound nice somehow.
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Hi Jung, thanks for the little excursion into the world of Clara Schumann. As for German composers and classical musicians, I am as always quite clueless. But thanks to your help, my knowledge is constantly increasing. Nannerl was perhaps the ghostwriter of her brother Wolfgang Amadeus, who knows? 🙂
Thanks also for the video of Marina Krupkina. Rondo Alla Turca ( in German: “Türkischer Marsch”) sounds great on the guitar. I didn’t even know there were 10 string guitars (or have known this once and forgotten again). I always thought 6 or 12 strings were the common standard. It is always exciting listening to music written for a particular instrument, in this case the piano, transferred to another instrument.
Speaking of Clara Schumann and the piano, I’m going to take a bold leap from the Romantic period to the present day. Some time ago I was able to experience Hiromi Uehara (上原 ひろみ) at a live concert. The name didn’t really mean anything to me at the time, but after I was able to experience live how this woman plays the piano, she left a lasting impression on me. At the beginning of her performance, there is a small person sitting there, barely standing out from the piano. But when I see her fingers and hands move and start racing across the piano keys, it’s impressive. As she plays, she radiates an insane dynamism and energy. She develops into a real whirlwind and at some point seems to forget the world around her. The passion and also the joy that is conveyed in her performance is very impressive. There was a point in the concert where I thought “now she’s putting her feet on the piano keys and she’s playing the piece four-handed”, so to speak. This is true magic.
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