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Rotten Dreams Abbey (8/13-12/13)

"Der Bruch ist die einzige echte Verbindung zwischen zwei Wesen, er markiert nicht das Ende sondern den Anfang ihrer Beziehungen"
(Pascal Bruckner - "Verführer auf dem Papier")

Joni Mitchell
Bad Dreams                                (Shine - 2007)
Adrian Weyermann
Blue                                             (La Poeta - 2003)
Youssou N'Dour
Don't walk away                         (Joko From Village to Town - 2000)
Charlie Haden Quartet West feat. Shirley Horn
In Love in Vain                             (The Art of the Song - 1999)
The Smiths
Never had no one ever                  (The Queen is dead - 1986)
Moon Martin
No Chance                                   (Single B-Seite - 1979)
Marc Cohn
Rest for the Weary                       (The rainy Season - 1993)
Grandaddy
Saddest vacant Lot
in all the World                             (Sumday - 2010)
Mumford & Sons
Sigh no more                               (Sigh no more - 2009) 
United Women's Orchestra
Silent Room/Man on Mars
- The Virgo Supercluster Suite       (Virgo Supercluster - 2002)
Yo La Tengo
Take care                                     (Summer Sun - 2003)

Nina Simone
In Love in Vain                             (Saga of the good Life and hard Times - 1997)

Joni Mitchell: Bad Dreams
"Too much of “Shine” translates its anger into a list of complaints, and Mitchell comes off as a crank, not a poet." (Greg Kot/Chicago Tribune)  "My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. I can't cry about it." (J.M.) "As the whole of Shine attests, at sixty-four, the music of Joni Mitchell is the fiercest calm you’ll find." (Alan Pedder/www.wearsthetrousers.com)
"You cannot be trusted
Do you even know you're lying"

Adrian Weyermann: Blue
"there was always something wrong" (A.W. "Something More") "So schön, so melancholisch und poetisch ist seither seine Musik... «Die Leute denken manchmal: O, der Arme, wir müssen ihm helfen . . .»" (nzz.ch)  "Voller Leiden, Melancholie, Verzweiflung gesungen" (pillermaik/www-uk-charts.com)
"what has happened
you left me feeling blue"

Youssou N'Dour: Don't walk away
"Das Gemäkel  tut dem Sänger weh" (Thomas Miessgang) "dann spüre ich den Schmerz, der sich hinter der Freude verbirgt"   "Man muss vorangehen, ohne zu vergessen. „Dont walk away“ war perfekt mit Sting." (Y.N. 2009)
"Confrontation and all the lies
I'm just sitting here wondering why"

Charlie Haden Quartet West feat. Shirley Horn: In Love In Vain
"Weltmeisterin in Langsamkeit"  (Peter ruedi) "MAGIC" (Christine Bouyére on Youtube)  "a fine accompaniment to an evening of martinis, moonlight and whatever else" (Billboard)
"At night you hang around the hall
And eat your heart out
And cry your eyes out
And rack your brains"
 

The Smiths:  Never had no one ever
"Propagiert Morrissey die Einsamkeit als vorläufige Lösung fast aller Weltübel" (Die Zeit) "im an introvert introverts dont get lonely only extraverts. I am more likely to feel lonely in a crowded room then by myself in a wilderness. and im already old so i know this" (amyhuk on youtube) "sitting alone in the dark of the bedroom, perhaps, finding succour in the bleakness of 'Never Had No One Ever'" (Ben Hewitt "The Quietus") 
"On these streets where you were raised
I had a really bad dream"

Moon Martin: No Chance
"escaping from any form of domination be it hopeless love or disco music." (Velvet Magazine) "Gestern fand ich die Stimme nicht mehr so gut, sie kam mir dünn und, tja, kläglich (oder zaghaft) vor." (Sokrates/forum.rollingstone.de)  "I'm glad Moon didn't join the Eagles" (Rick Holly/amazon.ca)
"I wish I could shut down
This feeling in my heart"

Marc Cohn: Rest for the Weary
"Describes a situation in which a tired person has to do more work" (www.thefreedictionary.com)  "that’s what we hope for: Not a surplus of joy but a cessation of struggle" (mongre4l/www.adfinemfidelis.net) "Frei von Peinlichkeit" (jf/ME Sounds)
"I hope there was some laughter
'Cause I know there were some tears"

Grandaddy: Saddest vacant Lot in all the World
"Es muss ein Ort der Langeweile sein" (Markus Zinsmaier) "seifenblasengroße Traumsequenzen" (Frank Sawatzki)  "bored to tears by Sumday" (Matt Stephens)
"What a shame as she drifts out of reach
While he's still drunk asleep"

Mumford & Sons: Sigh no more
 "feel just a little bit too polite" (Michael Hann/The Guardian) "Mumfords brennende, eindringliche, pathoskompatible Stimme" (Jörg Feyer/Rolling Stone) "Lyrically, the themes mined here are love’s self-doubt, romance, death, regret, and heartbreak, all crafted with careful consideration." (Tony Hardy/www.consequenceofsound.net)
"And I'm sorry   
I'm sorry"

United Women's Orchestra:  Silent Room / Man on Mars
"there's a diffuse clearness around" (Christina Fuchs) "for those who live at the cutting edge, there is plenty to marvel at." (John  Killoch) "der Atem dehnt sich zu Gesten des Klang-Werdens aus" (Malcolm Goldstein)

Yo La Tengo: Take care
"it gives the impression you are listening to the music with some water caught in your ears... one is likely to feel inexplicably moved, as if one had lost something she didn’t know she had." (Robert Horning/www.popmatters.com) "nicht mehr aggressiv, sondern kontemplativ" (Jefferson Chase zum Album von Yo La Tengo)  "Pinned at the bottom of the board was a blue note card that bore a simple and perfect epitaph for Chilton: "One of a kind.""  (Bob Mehr/Alex Chilton - composer of the song - Memorial)                              "This sounds a bit like goodbye
In a way it is I guess"

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Nina Simone: In Love in Vain