Heart Leap (Album)

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Heart leap
Studio album by Ougenweide

Publication
(s)

2010

Label (s) Great Freedom - a division of Bureau B

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Folk

Title (number)

15th

running time

62:20 min

occupation Frank Wulff-Raven: guitar, flute, krummhorn, nyckelharpa, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, monochord, kettledrum, triton horns, clarinettino, zither, koto, e-piano, celesta, claviolin, bouzouki, singing saw, gemshorn, waldolin, mandolin, piano, Percussion
Stefan Wulff: bass, percussion
Olaf Casalich: vocals, percussion
Sabine Maria Reiss: vocals
Hinrich Dageför: guitar, mandolin, kalimba
Martin Engelbach: drums
Krzysztof Gediga: bass clarinet, accordion

Studio (s)

O 'Ton Studio Hamburg

chronology
Sol
1996 		Heart leap -

Herzsprung is the tenth studio album by the German folk rock group Ougenweide . It was published on 23 April 2010 under the label Grosse Freiheit - a division of Bureau B .

Emergence

The idea for this CD came about when founding member Frank Wulff-Raven and the actress and singer Sabine Maria Reiss met in 2000, but could not be implemented for a long time. The compositions are by Frank Wulff-Raven, while Sabine Maria Reiss tracked down texts from several centuries and various European countries and partially translated them from English into German. The album Herzsprung was released for the 40th anniversary of the band and was the first studio album in 14 years. The founding members of the band included the singer and percussionist Olaf Casalich and the brothers Frank and Stefan Wulff, as well as the singer Sabine Maria Reiss, the guitarist Hinrich Dageför, the drummer Martin Engelbach and the clarinetist and accordionist Krzysztof Gediga. Ferdinand von Seebach (trombone), Leonie Wulff (vocals) and Angelika Bachmann (violin) were guest musicians on some of the pieces.

instrumentation

Instruments such as guitar, bass and drums are used at heart , but also unusual instruments such as conchons , kinsho koto , dutar , clavioline , monochord , launedda , fiddle , nyckelharpa and waldoline . Almost all of these instruments are played by Frank Wulff-Raven. In Ein leis und sadig Lied , the text of which is attributed to Maria Stuart , you can hear some of the musical sculptures by the French Baschet brothers collected in the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry .

content

The CD opens with the prologue Tritons Ruf , a piece blown on sea snail trumpets, which merges into the eponymous instrumental piece Herzsprung . This is followed by a healing blessing from the 10th century, Phol ende Uuodan , sung by Olaf Casalich. The original text is the second Merseburg magic spell ; this ties in with a successful Ougenweide number. With a leis and sad song in which Mary Stuart as 18-year-old death of her husband, Francois II. , Complaining is interpreted tear of singer Sabine Maria.

Mechthild von Magdeburg , one of the few minstrels of the 13th century, describes in her poem Dy Minne the power of love, which on Judgment Day will weigh more heavily than the entire earth. The music is rooted in the French Une jeune fillette.

Christina Rossetti, sister of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti , who founded the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in the mid-19th century , is represented with several texts on the album. The piece Eine Lieben is based on two Rossetti poems that Sabine Maria Reiss translated into German and combined into a text. It follows with Uisk flo aftar themo uuatare a text from the 10th century in Old Saxon , a healing prayer for a horse. The Dansa joioza , a Provencal dance song based on the text of the trobador song A l'Entrada, tells of the spring-like April queen who triumphs over the jealous winter king. Christina Rossetti's Lilien & Rosen about the transience of beauty is followed by a dance and love song in old Italian, Ella Mia .

Hans Neusidler's Der Welsche Tanz , composed for buckled lute in the early 16th century and already arranged by Ougenweide for the album Eulenspiegel (1976), leads over to a song from the Glogau song book (around 1470), Ich sachs eins mals , a short text about love and the finitude of all life. The third piece after a Rossetti poem is Echo . It is about love that goes beyond death. It leads to the song Partite Amore , a farewell song , with the text of which the notary Nicholaus Phylippi made a document forgery-proof in Bologna in the 13th century. The CD ends with the Epilogue , a short instrumental piece for triton horns and children's piano.

Others

Frank Wulff-Raven died on March 19, 2010, a few weeks before the album was released. On June 4, 2010 Ougenweide gave a concert for the release of the album, in which Wulff-Raven's part was taken over by three musicians.

reception

Herzsprung was said to have an “ elegiac mood” throughout on the “baby blue pages” . The performance of the singer Sabine Maria Reiss was particularly praised, the music was described as "artificial folk rock", the piece Ein leis und sadig Lied as " Art-Pop ". The album received 10 out of 15 points.

Track list

  1. Triton's call - 0:48
  2. Heart jump - 4:38
  3. Phol Ende Uuodan - 5:12
  4. A quiet and sad song - 6:53
  5. Dy Minne - 3:36
  6. To a loved one - 5:45
  7. Uisk Flo Aftar Themo Uuatare - 5:07
  8. Dansa Jojoza - 4:45
  9. Lilies & Roses - 4:51
  10. Ella Mia - 3:43
  11. The French dance - 3:16
  12. I'll do it once - 4:00
  13. Echo - 4:31
  14. Partite Amore - 4:13
  15. Epilogue - 1:02

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CD review on Baby Blue Pages , accessed on September 15, 2010