Maybe not even many of the German speaking cats here knew him, but I'll announce this anyway:
I've just learned, that yesterday the Austrian 'Liedermacher' LUDWIG HIRSCH has died.
He was a depressive guy, kinda like the music-equivalent of Georg Trakl (the Austrian poet). I've listened to some of his songs during dark nights many-a-times, esp. in the late 90's.
Amongst his most moving songs are 'Komm großer schwarzer Vogel' ('Come, big black bird'), in which the inhabitant of an asylum prays for the big black bird to come and take him (=his life) away and '1928' about how Disney and Mickey Mouse killed decency in the sense, that if aliens would land here after an overkill and find only a movie from Disney left, they'd think, what a funny and glad race we've been. Then there's 'Die gottverdammte Pleite' ('The goddamn bankrupt') about our children starting to turn against us and declare war because of what we've done to their world.
The songs aren't easy to consume, esp if you don't understand the words. But if you're interested, you may find a way to play all those 3 mentioned songs from here (Tracks 6-8).
I've just learned, that yesterday the Austrian 'Liedermacher' LUDWIG HIRSCH has died.
He was a depressive guy, kinda like the music-equivalent of Georg Trakl (the Austrian poet). I've listened to some of his songs during dark nights many-a-times, esp. in the late 90's.
Amongst his most moving songs are 'Komm großer schwarzer Vogel' ('Come, big black bird'), in which the inhabitant of an asylum prays for the big black bird to come and take him (=his life) away and '1928' about how Disney and Mickey Mouse killed decency in the sense, that if aliens would land here after an overkill and find only a movie from Disney left, they'd think, what a funny and glad race we've been. Then there's 'Die gottverdammte Pleite' ('The goddamn bankrupt') about our children starting to turn against us and declare war because of what we've done to their world.
The songs aren't easy to consume, esp if you don't understand the words. But if you're interested, you may find a way to play all those 3 mentioned songs from here (Tracks 6-8).