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For those of you who want to know what kind of music I did before the funk got me
and before I started the Calaminus Project:
"KOPF oder ZAHL" is one of the answers.
In 1999 - the time when my music was more prog-influenced -I recorded an album of 13 songs in about 80 hours with some other nice musicans in a kind of homestudio.
The main backings/arrangements were done on a Boss Drumcomputer. During the recordings we replaced some of the original sounds with better ones from diverse samplers and added keys, guitars and vocals.
"KOPF oder ZAHL" is one of the recorded songs of this album "WIRKLICH?!".
The german lyrics describe the matters of unemployment.
For those of you who are able to understand german:
Please be indulgent on these lyrics :-) I was young & needed the money *haha* ;-)
Musicians:
CALAMINUS: - vocals, guitars, main backing, drumcomputer; songwriting.
CHRISTIAN RUST: - additional guitars & solo (marimba part)
TIM HEINRICH: - additional keys & sampling; mix & mastering.
Release date: Jul 21, 1999
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 4.48 on April 08, 2013 06:37
@lapke: Es gibt halt immer Verhältnisse, die bleiben - zum Glück auch Positives ;-) Möge uns die Thematik dieses (alten) Songs nicht so schnell zuleibe rücken...
- lapke
lapke at 4.48 on April 07, 2013 22:05
Bin begeistert, dass die Vergangenheit so gegenwärtig sein kann.
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 1.20 on February 13, 2013 21:00
@Orlando 'The Don' Lund: Great you found it appealing Orlando - thank you very much! I never dared to compare this with Gong or Spirit, but I'm glad I did some unconscious homage to them and their music :-) Or to answer your question: No, I didn't knew that really ;-)
- Orlando 'The Don' Lund
Orlando 'The Don' Lund at 1.20 on February 13, 2013 09:33
This is an interesting listen throughout!!! I hear elements of Gong (Angels Egg) and Spirit (12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus). Ah, but you knew that didn't you?
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 2.05 on February 12, 2013 20:43
@Johan Rignér: ;-) Yeah Johan, some light funky attitude without the knowlegde of what funk can be... Thanks for pointing that out!
- Johan Rignér
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 5.24 on February 12, 2013 14:24
@Ping-Fonk: Haha, damn right with the radio hit Jean-Guy ;-) That wasn't intended too! My influences at this time were proggy and I had the first listens to some fusion... Even I don't give to much on genre labels, I would sum it up to Art-Pop (maybe?!) :-) Thanks for listening to that old stuff with german lyrics mate!!
- Ping-Fonk
Ping-Fonk at 5.24 on February 12, 2013 14:14
There are really a lot of things in this track. It's like experimental-post-punk-jazz-pop-fusion-or-something. Interesting. It will never be a radio hit for sure, but I like it :)
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 4.22 on February 12, 2013 14:11
@Rafi Wazir: Selbstverständlich haben Liedermacher zu Recht ihren Platz (und ja auch einiges angestoßen), gerade Wecker & Mey haben meinen vollen Respekt - nicht nur textlich! 1999 hatte ich nur das Bedürfnis, nach 6 Jahren Liedermacherei andere musikalische Impulse (Artrock/Prog) hörbar zu machen :-) Den Lyrics aus der Liedermacherzeit bin ich aber bis heute noch recht verbunden, auch auf Englisch... Auch wenn ich nie die Tiefe der "Vorbilder" erreicht habe ;-)
- Rafi Wazir
Rafi Wazir at 4.22 on February 12, 2013 13:53
@Calaminus: Es gibt keine bessere Sprache für sperrige Themen, auch für Lyrik eignet sich Deutsch ausgezeichnet :). Wader, Mey, Wecker, Biermann, muss man nicht überwinden denke ich, die haben ihren Platz und das völlig zu Recht.
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 0.00 on February 12, 2013 13:50
This is a song from the period BEFORE this sequencing project - with real musicians :0, real vocals & german lyrics! Sorry, there's no translation, but hope this doesn't matter too much & you'll enjoy the music :-))
- Calaminus
Calaminus at 4.22 on February 12, 2013 13:45
@Rafi Wazir: Danke Rafi! Das war schon die Zeit, in der ich den sozialkritischen Liedermacher a la Hannes Wader oder Reinhard Mey musikalisch überwunden geglaubt habe... Textlich gab es da aber noch deutliche Reminiszenzen ;-) Darüber hinaus eignet sich die deutsche Sprache ziemlich gut für sperrige Themen ;-) - Englisch ist aber wesentlich musikaffiner!
- Rafi Wazir
Rafi Wazir at 4.22 on February 12, 2013 10:35
Schon damals sehr groovy für einen sozialkritischen Liedermacher. Warum ist Deutsch nur so eine ungemein sperrige Sprache, wenn man sie singen will?
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