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immer auf der gratwanderung (2/15-7/15)

"Dann war sie weg
einfach so
wieder weg aus meinem Leben"

(Tom Hanks - "Forrest Gump")

Les Négresses Vertes
ce pais                                (TRABENDo - 1999)
Wyclef Jean
Diallo                                   (The Ecleftic (2 Sides II A Book) - 2000)
Element of Crime
Don't you smile                     (Try to be Mensch - 1987)
März
Everybody had a hard Year     (Love Streams - 2002)
Sophie B. Hawkins
I want you                            (tongues and tails - 1992)
Lotte Lenya
Lonely House                        (Lenya, Vol. 4 -6 - 1957/1998)
Joni Mitchell
Refuge of the Roads               (Travelogue - 2002)
Workshop
Sage mir, Alwis                       (Yog Sothoth - 2004)
Randy Newman
Same Girl                              (Trouble in Paradise - 1983)
Ornette Coleman
When will I see you again        (Tone Dialing - 1995)
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Will you smile again?               (Worlds Apart - 2005)

Betty Carter
Lonely House                       (September Songs - 1997)

Les négresses Vert: ce pays
"Noch immer bestimmt mediterrane Melancholie das Bild, doch wirkt sie tiefgefroren" (Daniel Bax) "La france a ses dimanches...ich muss an ein Lied der Les Negresses Vertes denken." (Martin Würfl/ "Von Montceau-les-Mines nach Digoin") "der Lead-Sänger verstarb. Aufhören oder weitermachen, war die Frage" (Wiener Zeitung)
"Le tien comme le mien
E rien d'autre"

Wyclef Jean:  Diallo
"Er singt ein Klagelied für Amadou Diallo, den Einwanderer aus Haiti, den die New Yorker Polizei mit 41 Kugeln erschoss...   es sind Schüsse wie aus dem Puppentheater" (Tobias Rapp) "He believes God put him on this earth for a greater mission"  (Gavin Edwards) "some critics suggested that Wyclef's sprawling ambitions were growing messy" (www.citywinery.com)
"Have you ever screamed
and no one heard you cry?"

Element of Crime: Don't you smile
"für all jene Mittvierziger, die der Meinung sind, dass Sachen wie "Nervous and blue" oder "Don't you smile" halt einfach "nicht so poetisch verblasen" sind" ( Nina Berendonk/SZ) ("zu immer weiteren Variationen des melancholischen Grundmotivs"  (Thomas Gross) "Das böse „Don’t You Smile“ macht den Anfang" (Gérard Otremba/pop-polit.com)
"Why don't you even wash your hands"

März: Everybody had a hard Year
""melancholischer Optimismus". Oder, umgekehrt, "optimistische Melancholie". Und das, obwohl man oft (eigentlich fast immer) nah an der Verzweiflung ist, nah am Scheitern an sich selbst." (Christian Kisler/ORF)  "Ist das jetzt kitschig? – mir doch egal." (anettf/de-bug.de) "Die Musik machte da weiter...
 wo Nick Drake und Nico aufgehört hatten  (Ulrich Stock)
"Everybody had a bad dream
Everybody put their feet down"

Sophie B. Hawkins: I want you
"amazing look but she ruined Dylan song"  (KILLthemALLnow1 at Youtube)   "'It's an amazing age': Sophie B Hawkins reveals she's expecting her second child at 50... after freezing 15 embryos at 31" (Daily Mail) "Während die Pedal-Steel-Gitarre eine wehmütige Melodie seufzt, jammert ein alter Mann herzergreifend mit zitterndem Tremolo in der Stimme von der Geliebten, die ihm abhandengekommen ist" (Gunther Reinhardt/Stuttgarter Nachrichten)
"But I did it because he lied
And because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side"

Lotte Lenya: Lonely House
"On visits to private homes, she often entered to the sound of her own voice, heard through much-worn, but anxiously-treasured recordings" (David Farneth) "So that was her strength, but it was also her weakness, that she was no singer." (George Avakian) "Lonely House“, das die Atmosphäre des einsamen Wachliegens in der Nacht unvergleichlich treffend einfängt." (St. Troßbach)
"At night when everything is quiet
                                     This old house seems to breathe a sigh"                      VILLACH

Joni Mitchell: Refuge of the Roads
"Vast are the shadows
That straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness
Troubling my eyes" (W.B.Yeats, from Booklet) "allegorical musical tale of an existential traveller battling to live up to Zarathustrian ideals -- to run rather than walk, then to fly rather than run, and not to let herself be "pushed before moving along."" (J. LeBlanc/"Facing Time and other Thiefs")  "a suffragette of sensuality"     (Andy Gill/www.uncut.co.uk)
"I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues"

Workshop: Sage mir, Alwis
"Je weiter das Unwohlsein wächst, desto stärker wird allerdings auch das Erstaunen über die eigene Beschränktheit" (Thomas Winkler) "rat- und richtungslos" (intro) "(Voor dit artikel heb je een platenspeler nodig)" (www.bol.com/nl)
"Besser zu haben als zu entbehren
Ist mir das mehlweiße Mädchen"

Randy Newman: Same Girl
"Gemisch aus Cleverness und Bitternis" (Michael O.R. Kröher)  "Wir haben es hier mit den... grausamsten und luzidesten Songs der Musikgeschichte zu tun." (Rolling Stone) "Most of the characters in these songs come by their situations by their own inadequacies; given every advantage, they squander them through stupidity, selfishness and greed"  (https://songsfromsodeep.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/trouble-in-paradise-randy-newman/)
"A few more holes in your arm"

Ornette Coleman: When will I see you again
"das traumhafte Zerfasern von Melodien und Rhythmen" (Konrad Heidkamp) "interludes of unexpected gentleness (Billboard) "it's a very sad affair when one must put any music above another to fulfill a social position for wealth or personal ego" (O.C./"Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State")

And You Will Know Me By The Trail Of Dead: Will you smile again?
"Das große Gefühl und der kleine Kitsch" (Gerrit Bartels)  "I don't like the way the drummer hits a closed hi-hat between 'cymbal catches' during the intro" (stephenPPP on YouTube) "omg. I forgot this existed." (lavenderpatch/www.reddit.com)
"Remember all the bad dreams
Are not far from reality"

Betty Carter: Lonely House