“Wäre ich ein Buch zum lesen” (Daliah Lavi, 1973)
this key piece of conceptual audible art translates as “If I was a book to read”: here, the female “I” compares herself with “a book” in the context of a romance (”… to read”). the piece’s dramaturgy culminates in a climax in the third strophe: [...]
Die Gedanken sind frei (Thoughts are free)
german evergreen-protest-song since 1780, good against all kinds of political repression and censorship
Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass
Three Chinese with a Double Bass, Four Vowels and Six Germanic Umlaute – one of my favourite german children’s song.
Loosely translated into: “Three Chinese with a double bass sat on the street and chatted, along came the police: ‘Now what is this?‘ Three Chinese with a double bass.”
dis kribbeln in se belly that one neva forkets
My Very First Mantra (”Leg dein Ohr auf die Schiene der Geschichte”, Freundeskreis, 1997)
THE la la la la la in music history – as low and as high as I can get; (”Loving You”, Minnie Riperton, 1975)
Party Machen Wir (=> ca.: Party We Make, Volker Racho, 2009)