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Jazz and Poetry. It’s all about the poetry of Jeannette Obstoj who writes the bulk of lyrics for Rupert Hine. There is quite a story to this, further down.
LYRICS:
Set up – set up for the sake of a comfortable home
Too young – too young to take control
Mother’s little weapon for when Father broke the rules
He never wanted her or me
He just wanted to be free
There’s a risk and a twist
And all this from the girl you missed by minutes
On the day you were hit
Set up – every opportunity to make me like them
Set up – born into a world where I had no control
One set up leads to another
Too set up to lie to each other
And it’s all been a frame
I’ve got to change my appearance
And get rid of their name
They did it with mirrors
They did it without pain
I was set up and held up and stuffed in a cage
Don’t get up and say it was some other mother
I’m sure enough it was you that planted me
Is there anyone out there
Who can change this atmosphere
Set up – every opportunity to make me like them
Set up – born into a world where I had no control
One set up leads to another
Too set up to lie to each other
They did it with kindness
They did it with a smile
They did it all with I licence
They did it according to the rules
They did it with good advice
They did it for some reason
They did it
Well they tried

I found the instrumental jazz-cd on a fleamarket. I was convinced I found a trace of my old best friend from school. Name, provenience, looks (15 years later) and some other hints were evident. He was learning the guitar every day, back then, wanting to become a musician soooo bad. I was all excited and determined to make contact again. BUT I wanted to surprise him. I had this old wish of me, to reanimate (phantasies….) the Jazz and Poetry genre from the 60ies. Just this time not to deliver musical versions of poems, but more to bring “down” songlyrics back to the poetry level. (Still I think this is a great idea. for a niche).

Anyway, on my way home I bought a microphone for 9.90. I plugged it in my mother’s carriable cassette(!)-recorder from the 60ies, reporter model, because it would overdub, i guess as an production error. I listened to the jazz cd noting roughly where I would have how much time to add words while I copied to an musiccassette. Then went for it. I used what I found for effects. Cardboardboxes, bathtub, wollen sheets…

I wanted to improvise and set myself under pressure. So all the takes are take one always with one eye on the cd-player counting the time left. The result is defintively sketchy and was meant to be that way, thinking me and my buddy could maybe redo the thing. All 7 songs were recorded in one afternoon. It’s not really what I had in mind with Jazz and Poetry because I thought of a different kind of Jazz. But it’s getting there.

I had the tape. Phoned my buddy. Met my buddy and played the cassette to him, waiting for the surprise on his face. What I saw was utter disbelief as he is into hardrock and heavymetal, really. I felt looked at like if i was an alien materializing in his living room. He had NOTHING to do with this music. That was a totally different guy with the same name as him. In fact, he, my buddy, gave UP his musical carreer after 20 years of practizing the guitar daily and studying music in university after hid dead grandmother with a giant glowing cross behind her told him in a dream to become a healer. So he hung the guitar on the wall and became a healer !! !!!? !!

Today I had a telephone conversation with the REAL musician of the same name as the HEALER (couldn’t heal ME!) explaining that I would like to ruin his work in public. I mean, he is a real professional musician (orchestra and shit) and I’m a bloody amateur croaking over his fine jazz. THAT is the point were I have respect for the respective owner of the copyright. If HE said: No, I don’t want that, you are ruining the piece i would naturally still do it. But not go public. He was very nice (and sends me another cd) and said: “Isch mer Wurscht! Nu mache!” which translates “I don’t care, just go ahead”.

The Noises are extreme. The friend who digitalized it for me tried to fight it and gave me opportunity to add a little extra-hall now and then.

More then a Mood: Ch. Hartmann, F. Lüscher, F. Nussbaumer, D. Aebli

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Originally posted 2010-02-27 10:02:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter