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Kalendersprüche (4/14-9/14)

"Ich bin Bilder schuldig und keine Intimitäten"  (Christian Denzler)

VALLÉE DE LA SEMOIS 

Fairground Attraction
Comedy Waltz            (The first of a million Kisses - 1988)
Michael Hurley
Got over it                  (Sweetkorn - 2002)
Dayna Kurtz
I belong to the Wind    (Beautiful Yesterday - 2004)
Maria Taylor
Like it does                  (Overlook - 2011)
Belle Epoque
Losing you                  (Single B-Seite - 1977)
Loretta Lynn
Miss being Mrs.           (Van Lear Rose - 2004)
Radiohead
Scatterbrain                (2+2=5 - 2003)
The Chamber Brothers
So tired                      (The time has come - 1967)
The Cure
The Top                      (The Top - 1984)
Adele
Turning Tables             (21 - 2011)
Ellery Eskelin  Andrea Parkins  Jim Black
Vox Organalis             (The Secret Museum - 2000)

Radiohead
Karma Police               (Alternative Ballads - 2004)

Fairground Attraction: Comedy Waltz
"I feel that a woman commands more empathy with songs sometimes she can sing a song. And to me personally anyway, I feel, always feel more sympathetic towards a woman singer if she's singing a song that is kind of heartfelt and sad" (Mark Nevin, Composer) "I wish Mark the very, very best, he decided he didn't feel right working with me, told me it was over and left.. and why ?? The absolute truth, of my experiance, is , I will never really know...." (Eddi Reader, Singer) "she can hit euphoric highs and sound like she really means them" (Andrew Marcus/New Times Los Angeles Online)
"Tell me a joke that brings tears to my eyes
Tell me a joke so that I can laugh 'till I cry"

Michael Hurley: Got over it
"ich gelte als total verschlosssen. Dabei ist das eine Art Übertreibung" (M.H./booklet) "After All we can allways turn around and come back. He can't" (Nick Tosches) "It puts peace in your life after you've been mugged ("I had a hard time / But I got over it"), or when you simply crave a little peace" (Theodore Defosse/Splendid Magazine)
"An' it's taking the rest of my life"

Dayna Kurtz: I belong to the Wind
"das Schwelgen von Leonard Cohen (ohne darin zu versinken), die Melancholie von Marianne Faithfull (ohne sich selbst zu streicheln)" (Konrad Heidkamp)  "She doesn't know of your feelings, would be polite but distant if she did" (Haven Kimmel/booklet) "Ich höre das Album jeden Morgen zum Aufwachen, das funktioniert aber nicht sehr gut"  (Fabian/amazon.de)
"Take your dreams,
I'm not for dreaming"

Maria Taylor: Like it does
"etwas rumort in der Künstlerin... Eigentlich dauert alles ein Leben lang" (Jörn Schlüter/Rolling Stone) "she reminds listeners "you can’t blame the mind for the dreaming.""  (Noel Murray/www.avclub.com) "diesmal auch mehr als ein verträumtes Hauchen"  (dirk/plattenvorgericht.blogspot.de)
"There's no vow to make you honest,
 There's no confession that will make you pure"

Belle Epoque: Losing you
"der bluesige Song ist ganz stark. Fein düster" (LarkCGN/www.hitparade.ch) "naja, knapp passabel..." (lumlucky/hitparade.ch)  "Meine persönliche Ausgrabung der Woche. Hammer, oder?" "Ausgrabung? Mmmh, passt irgendwie, wenn man sich Evelyne Lenton heute so ansieht... (save ferris, Rick Master/forum.tal-der-träume.de)
"I found myself wishing
You never came home"

Loretta Lynn: Miss being Mrs.
"Es tut nicht mehr so weh, wenn man es mal gesungen hat"  (Konrad Heidkamp) "At times, it's unerringly beautiful and soft. At others, it howls like a blue mountain banshee."  (Uncut) "This is not smooth" (L.L. New York Times)
"I lie here all alone
In my bed of memories"

Radiohead: Scatterbrain
"I've watched a lot of them on youtube. This is really strange." (JohnCusley)  "It’s so pretty it hurts" (Jim Beviglia/houston.culturmap.com)  "Plätschert einfach so dahin, wie ein Wasserfällchen in der
Juli-Sonne..." (Dino-Canarias/www.norwegiancharts.com)
"Then any fool can
Easy pick a hole
I only wish I could fall in"

The Chamber Brothers: So tired
"I didn’t know how to reach out to anyone. That embarrassment & isolation led me to these songs:" (Martha Frankel)  "I am now 72, Trying to live on $ 1200 a Month. Sweet Reliif, a music charity is taking donations for me" (Lester Chambers on Facebook)  "A friend of mine and I have an ongoing dialogue about music to play at our funerals...  This song, which manages to incorporate sadness, melancholy, and peace all at once, has definitely made it onto my list."  (Marios/rockasteria.blogspot.de)
"For I know I'll never be free, never be free"

The Cure: The Top
"geht mir die Stimme auf die Nerven" (Bodo Staiger)  "Robert Smiths Stimme ... mag ich sehr" (Billy Idol) "Mit all der jammernden Trauer des Sängers" (ME Sounds)
"I don't care
If only I could say that"

Adele: Turning Tables
"promise this is the last time I will be online.. I just needed to post this last song.. good bye all, take care..." ? (Sandra Tankersley on Youtube)  "Adele has cancelled all remaining shows and appearances for 2011 because of surgery to repair her vocal chords" (www.complex.com) "Dieser zarte und gefühlvolle Song"  (www.musicroom.de)
Where love is lost your ghost is found
I braved a hundred storms to leave you

Ellery Eskelin: Vox Organalis
"Music can be an excellent medium  by which to express these lost times and places" (E.E.) "and the strange began to seem normal" (www.cleanfee-records.com) "Eskelin could get away with murder. That tone is all the alibi he'd need...incarnating the horn's romantic tradition while inking fresh initials on it's tattooed heart." (Jazziz, January 1997)

Radiohead: Karma Police