Songs from friends
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November 6, 2015 |
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16 |
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63:00 |
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Songs from friends is a music album by the German songwriter Reinhard Mey . It was published by Universal Music GmbH in 2015. Unlike the previous studio albums, the album contains a collection of 16 German, French and English recordings by colleagues that Mey has made over the years.
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The album was released on November 6, 2015. On the album is a collection with titles by Ulrich Roski , Pete Seeger , Rio Reiser , Franz Josef Degenhardt , Heinz Rudolf Kunze , Klaus Hoffmann , Gerhard Gundermann , The Magnetic Fields , Colin Wilkie , Johann Sebastian Bach , Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger , I Muvrini , Manfred Maurenbrecher , Ludwig Hirsch and Boris Vian . Unlike his other studio albums, he did not develop it in a relatively short period of time, but the recordings were made over many years.
“We all have a song somewhere in our memory, or in our ears right now, 'where it grabs you that you don't know what's happening to you', as I tried to describe it. I have many such songs from the pen of very close or distant colleagues who are all equally familiar to me through their music. Some have been with me all my life, some I may only discover now, but from now on they will also be my companions forever. Songs that I sing for myself, simply because they give me pleasure, because they comfort or move me and sometimes when there is still a bit of time after a day at the studio and the colleagues feel like it, or a visit comes, whom I - like my daughter - can persuade you to sing along, then I'll record one of them, just like that. Over the years, over a dozen recordings have emerged from the spontaneous desire to make music, to experiment, from the desire not to part without a final encore after a day full of music in the studio. I call them friends' songs. "
As usual with Mey, the songs on this album are only sparsely orchestrated. The album contains old folk classics like Tell me where the flowers are as well as classics like Will you give me your heart . The song The book of love is a duet with his daughter Victoria Luise, The Twelve Christmas Days is a quartet with his three children.
Track list
- Please light me up - 3:12 - Ulrich Roski
- Que otherwise devenues les fleurs - 3:48 - Pete Seeger
- Magic Land - 3:54 - Rio Reiser
- Wolves in the middle of May - 6:55 am - Franz Josef Degenhardt
- You are not alone - 3:17 - Heinz Rudolf Kunze
- Ma vie - 3:17 - Klaus Hoffmann
- To father - 3:51 - Gerhard Gundermann
- The book of love - 3:47 - The Magnetic Fields
- Emily Anne - 5:39 - Colin Wilkie
- Do you want to give your heart to me - 3:00 - Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Twelve Days of Christmas - 5:19 - Folksong , England
- Evening - 3:01 am - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
- Jallalabad - 4:26 - I Muvrini
- The old bike - 4:04 - Manfred Maurenbrecher
- Guardian Angel - 2: 48– Ludwig Hirsch
- Le déserteur - 2:42 - Boris Vian
Others
The proceeds from the album went to charity. Mey donated his share to the refugee aid of the SOS Children's Villages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reinhard Mey: Lieder von Freunde , accessed on April 16, 2016
- ↑ Reinhard Mey's new album Lieder von Freunde , accessed on April 16, 2016
- ↑ Description on Reinhard-mey.de