Placeless Dreams (9/09-10/09)


"memories flee away...
placeless dreams
All, gone with the wind..."

(Utopianangel /Thimphu, Bhutan/february 22, 2006)

Rickie Lee Jones
A lucky Guy                            (Pirates - 1980)
Todd Snider
All of my Life                            (Happy to be here - 2000)
Tindersticks
Chilitetime                                (Can our Love - 2001)
Keb` Mo`
I`m so lonesome I could cry       (Hank Williams Timeless - 2001)
Danny Dziuk
Let the Train blow the Whistle     (a boy named sue - Johnny Cash revisited - 2002)
Love
Old Man                                    (Forever Changes - 1967)
Lou Reed
Rock Minuet                              (Ecstasy - 2000)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
The Lion Lair                               (Ease down the Road - 2001)
Gianluigi Trovesi Nonet
Villanella                                     (Round about a Midsummer's Dream - 1999)
Without Gravity
Waterfall                                     (Tenderfoot - 2005)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Wiyathul                                    (Gurrumul - 2009)
Stephan Eicher
I`m so lonesome I could cry                   (I'll never get out of this World alive -1998)

 

Rickie Lee Jones: A lucky Guy
"Songs fließen langsam und schmelzend ineinander wie die Tränenbäche einer traurigen Liebesgeschichte...  In Worten von grausamer Schärfe beschreibt... den Aufenthalt einer gepeinigten Seele im Fegefeuer (Rolling Stone)  "Menschen, die lieber in der Erinnerung an die Vergangenheit leben und doch von der Gegenwart eingeholt werden" (Franz Schöler)  "“A Lucky Guy,” which Jones has said grew out of her life with (Tom) Waits." (www.rickieleejones.com/biography)
"fortune walks right in the door
and here I am
just like before"


Todd Snider: All of my Life
"ein langhaariger blonder Schlaks, der scheint schiere Jugend, obwohl er die 30 längst überschritten hat" "zärtlichst gewidmet Todd Sniders Vater: ("and he truely tried to make people happy") "The songs that seem to hurt or don't want to be written" (Todd Snider)  "grenzenlos sympathisch" (glitterhouse)
"The sun is shining and it`s raining too
I waited all my life for you"


Tindersticks: Chilitetime
"die Stimme Stuart Staples, tröstend in ihrer scheinbar unergründlichen Traurigkeit." (laut.de) "jetzt sind auch die Dissonanzen fast verschwunden. Nur in "Chilitetime" weinen sie wieder wie ein Straßenköter, dem man ohne Betäubung den Schwanz kupiert." (mw/kulturnews.de) "Tiefdunkel bleibt es trotzdem, es wird nur schöner."  (Felix von Vietsch/www.fantasywelt.info)
"Need to find the words
Need to find a way"


Keb' Mo':  I'm so lonesome I could cry
"that songs like...  "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" will never be outdated, so long as lovers betray each other and people wallow in depression" (Los Angeles Times) "The first time I heard Keb'Mo' was @2 - 3 years ago. I was in my car listening to the radio and I guess you could say I had an "epiphany" of sorts. I had just walked away from a 28 yr. marriage and was feeling pretty disoriented about what I was going to do with the rest of my life. ...that voice! I felt calm, centered and hopeful." (onefriend/kebmo.com/forum)
"The silence of a falling star                      AMALFI
lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I`m so lonesome I could cry"


Danny Dziuk: Let the Train blow the Whistle
"Der Song erschien 1994 auf dem ersten Teil der Trilogie, American Recordings, für die (Johnny) Cash den Grammy für das Folk-Album des Jahres bekam." (booklet)  "Nein, ich mache keinen Deutschrock, widerspricht Danny Dziuk, das ist was anderes! Melancholische Pop- und Rockmusik in gemächlichem Tempo. Stücke...  beginnen ganz harmlos, schaukeln sich von Sekunde zu Sekunde immer mehr hoch. Bis die schneidenden Riffs der Stromgitarre und ein wummernder Bass und Schlagzeug jeden Anflug einer lockeren und gefühlvollen Stimmung hinwegblasen." (www.folkworld.de)  "Borrowing judiciously from stylists like Leon Russell and Tom Waits is singer Danny Dziuk and his rendition of "Let the Train Blow the Whistle." (www.answers.com)
"You'll be left without excuses
For the evils and abuses
Down to today from years and years ago"


Love: Old Man
"Forever Changes (the Album) was to be my last words to this life. And it`s like death is in there, so it`s definitely forever changes" (Arthur Lee: "I was 26") "As large as his talent, however, was his penchant for isolation" (Jac Holzman) "Old Man based on the "Troika" movement from Prokofiev`s Lieutenant Kijé Suite to act as romantic relief. (liner notes)  
"And I'm Wrapped in my armor
And I'm Lost in confusions" ("Andmoreagain")


Lou Reed: Rock Minuet
"Von Hass und einer "piss-ugly soul" ist der Typ getrieben, der sich im Rock Minuet um die eigene Achse dreht, ein Leben, das man keinem an den Hals wünscht." "Klassiker, bei dem Dichtung und Wahrheit nicht mehr zu unterscheiden sind" (Thomas Gross) "Ich habe eine große Entscheidung getroffen, ich werde versuchen, mein Leben zu annulieren" (Lou Reed  "Heroin") www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mB5x6n7ee0
"Paralyzed by hatred and a piss-ugly soul"

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: The Lion Lair
"Will Oldham... hat sich zu einem Werk aufgeschwungen, das Leonard Cohen wie Neil Young - dem Akustischen - nahe steht... Er rechnet mit dem Schlimmsten, auch in seinen überschwänglichsten Songs..." (Konrad Heidkamp)
"I got lost then very quickly
started shaking feeling sickly
in the lion lair"


Gianluigi Trovesi Nonet: Villanella
"this dream where worlds communicate with each other and are transformed by the power of music" (Stefano Zenni) "In den excellent gespielten, überwiegend von Gianluigi Trovesi selbst komponierten musikalischen Skizzen bekommen Träume Flügel." (Ivana Trumpp/amazon.de) "Weil unser Leid ein allgemeines ist, Mit Liebe eins wie Träume, Wünsche, Seufzer, Und Tränen" (Hermia/"Ein Sommernachtstraum")

Without Gravity: Waterfall
"I was watching the movie The Grocer's Son and Waterfall was playing during the end credits...it was amazing," (eekms/www.lastfm.de) "In 2005, the Icelandic band Without Gravity, released their critically received debut album, Tenderfoot. Fronted by the beautiful voice of lead singer Kalli (Karl Henry), the band earned respect at the highest levels, with many tastemakers becoming passionate fans." (myspace.com/kallimusic) "tun alles, um einem das Herz zu brechen" (zoran drvenkar/amazon.de)
"This is all I've got
Could I spend it all?
On this Waterfall?"


Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingi: Wiyathul
"der erste Aborigine-Künstler, der sich im Mainstream etabliert und bis weit über die Grenzen seiner Heimat hinaus einen Namen gemacht hat. Seine Sprache ist einzig und alleine die Musik. Emotional, sachte, fast zerbrechlich - aber mit einer enormen Wirkung" (www.students.ch) "I was born blind, and I don`t know why" (Gurrumul History) "I was driving home last night. However, this was no ordinary journey home... absorbed by the magic of this amazing artist." (www.blogcatalog.com)
"Oh the old man cries, from his drink"