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Halt offen (7-15-4/16)

   
"Ich glaube, die Person, die dieses Foto gemacht hat, hat Sie sehr geliebt"
(Richard Harrison  - "Hinterland II")


India.Arie
Complicated Melody                                        (Voyage to India - 2002)
Bobby Bland
Cry, Cry, Cry                                                     (Two Steps from the Blues - 1961/2001)
R.E.M.
Everybody hurts                                              (Automatic for the People - 1992)
Mary Coughlan
Heartbreak Hotel                                            (Uncertain Pleasures - 1990)
Michael Chapman
March Rain                                                       (Lost & Found RS 78 - 1970/2013)
Nina Simone
My Man's gone now                                         (Nina Simone sings the Blues - 1967/2006)
Foyer des Arts
Olympia                                                           (Von Bullerbü nach Babylon -  1982)
Jan Garbarek
One goes there alone                                     (In Praise of Dreams - 2004)
Hederos Hellberg
Take care                                                         (Take care - 2002)
Spooky Tooth
That was only Yesterday                                  (Spooky Two - 1969)
Wilco
Wishful Thinking                                                (A Ghost is born - 2004)

R.E.M
You're in the Air                                                (Up - 1998)


India.Arie: Complicated Melody
"my go-to song when I sing for Veterans because it always seems to relax them in the middle of a rough day and most times helps them fall asleep while I’m singing" (Michelle/www.michellenicolerivera.com) "i almost got misty eyed listening to this track. i said ALMOST 0_o?" (thedeanfactor on YouTube)
"If were an animal
He's be an ass cause he's so stubborn sometimes"

Bobby Bland: Cry, Cry, Cry
"Aus einer Region tief unten im Bauch, dort, wo sich Whiskey und Wehmut mischen" (Jonathan Fischer)  "sways steady-as-you-go with a palpaple Lone Star swagger" (Bill Dahl/booklet) "songs that celebrate commitment and cry about the heartaches that inevitably follow" ("1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die/www.1000recordingscom)
"Somebody's hurt you, just like you hurt me
Cry me a river, cry me a sea"

R.E.M.: Everybody hurts
"The song says “Everybody hurts sometimes” but it suggests that everybody hurts all the time. And it’s really sad and I don’t like the way it sounds." "Kumail Nanjiani on why he hates R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”) "I once hated this song with a passion. A downer, melancholy, lost in feelings. Worst of all, like many of REM's tracks, it was way overplayed on classic rock dreck radio. Now I like it." (kingart/www.radioparadise.com)  "It has also been revealed that R.E.M.’s “Automatic For The People” album was in Kurt’s -  (Cobain) -  stereo when they discovered his body." www.feelnumb.com
"Everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong"

Mary Coughlan: Heartbreak Hotel
"there were times when I thought it would never see the light of day" (M.C.) "Best version I've heard so far, thanks so much for uploading... I'm Mary's nephew by the way. =P"  (Devilock on youtube) "Es ist nichts. Mary macht mich manchmal traurig." (Arnold Küsters - "Endstation Allgäu")
"They've been so long down lonely street
they're never coming back..."

Michael Chapman: March Rain
"poetic and opaque"  (www.allmusic.com) "das fast fragile "March Rain", verträumt und schwebend mit wunderschönen Harmonien und Instrumentalpassagen"  (Christian Anger/amazon.de) "Der Teufel geht davon und man bleibt einsam und allein zurück. Bevor sich die trübe Stimmung einstellt, wird zum letzten Konzert Michael Chapman aufspielen." (Jacek Slaski/tip Berlin)
"Let her stay
In dreams that way"

Nina Simone: My Man's gone now
"Und noch immer hatte sie ihr Gewehr im Kopf, ihre Sehnsucht nach Liebe, ihren Traum von Gerechtigkeit" (Konrad Heidkamp)  "Miss Simone was physically and emotionally exhausted from previous recording, but she sat down at the piano and began to play and sing this moving 'Porgy and Bess' tune" (Producer's Note/booklet)  "Leider zu gut. Die Songs, die deutlich den Hauch der 60´er Jahre atmen, wirken leicht unterkühlt, zu Lasten der "Essenz des Blues"" (DieterPeh/jpc)
"But old man sorrow                          
Mountin' all the way with me
Tell' me that I'm old now"

Foyer des Arts: Olympia
"Max Goldt ist schwul und ist gebürtiger Bielefelder (es soll Menschen geben, die allein das als mäkelwürdig ansehen)" (greentea/www.wallstreet-online.de) "schwamm "Onkel Max" in den 80ern eher unfreiwillig auf der Neuen Deutschen Welle mit" (www.jazzdimensions.de) "Gerd Pasemann, dessen Vater in den 30er Jahren 20 000 Mark in eine Knackmaschine für Paranüsse fehlinvestierte" (Die Zeit)  
"I guess it's just the state of my mind
that makes me feel so misplaced"
                                           VAL D'ISERE
                                          
Jan Garbarek: One goes there alone    
"Die meisten meiner Nächte sind in meiner Erinnerung schwarz."  (J.G.)  "it doesn't bear close listening and it doesn't work too well as aural wallpaper either"  (Peter Marsh/BBC)  "hat alle Fröhlichkeit abgeschüttelt"  (peb/www.nordische-musik.de)

Hederos Hellberg: Take care
"Wenn der Gesang einsetzt, packt einen die Angst, es könnte schon wieder vorbei sein." (Thomas Groß)  "Malmö, här kommer Mattias tjolahopp, tjolahej!" (Nymphet Noodlers on facebook) "wunderbar elegische Songs der Schweden Martin Hederos und Matthias Hellberg, der Quetschkommode und dem weinenden Klavier" (Spiegel online)
"So who am i to tell you what to do?
I'm just like you
A loneless soul without a clue
But i'm holding up my head"

Spooky Tooth: That was only Yesterday
"Gary Wright weaved dreams into the hearts of secretaries in cubicles everywhere" (David Kinney/www.amazon.ca)  "It must have been somewhere summer 1969 when we were here in Belgium were surprised with a song that sounded so beautiful that we have more information about this band went searching. With "That Was Only Yesterday", and the raw vocals of frontman Mike Harrison, I was a bird for the cat." (Alfons Maes/gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.de) "das Kontrastgespann von Mike Harrisons belegtem, beinahe grobem Blues-Bariton und Gary Wrights klagendem Falsett" (Rock-Lexikon 2)
"She took away what I'd had
And returned it full of sorrow"

Wilco: Wishful Thinking
"ziehen einen hinein in die Echokammern der eigenen Erinnerung und lassen nicht los" (Thomas Groß) "while under the influence of painkillers and depression" (www.thecrimson.com)  "a sly reference to death" (www.sputnikmusic.com)
"hell in a nutshell
is any song worth it singing if it doesn't help?"


R.E.M.:  You're in the Air