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Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague

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I simply cannot really explain why the last songs here remind me of this song of one of Germany's most famous comedians but if you find the connection you can tell me or even better: do not tell me the secret of the possible connection.

Here "Otto" after making some jokes in "Denglisch" (= German English !) sings first like Johnny Cash "The Ring of Fire" in English and then switches into German about his adventure when coming home from a long evening at the bar surprised about his smiling wife in the door finally remarking that it was the wrong door of the house next to his house where the "old dragon" is waiting for him and will let him crash. The funny thing for me was the unusual rhyming of "Drachen" (= Dragon), "krachen" (= crashing), "machen" (=making) etc.
By the way, the trumpeting elephant behind him is not an elephant but Otto's trademark: the "Ottifant" !

 
Another way to be uplifted - and free if you live in the right place!

Meadow Wildflowers
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The unpretentious display of the wildflowers.
It greets us without cost, without effort,
It is a free-will offering from the seed of the field,
Their way of spreading their own color
While incidentally pleasing us.

If only, as we go about our daily chores,
We could also spread such love and beauty.

Have a day full of color, and life, and productivity!​
 
I'm sure we all picked up a Covid hobby or two to keep us occupied through the long months of social isolation. My own Covid hobby has been learning Russian. It is for me an extremely difficult and complicated language. To keep myself from getting too discouraged I made up an inspirational saying, which Elephas kindly corrected (спасибо Злефас!) and placed it on a background that has meaning for me. It was my first view of the Pacific Ocean after a three month long bike ride across the U.S.

beach scene1redo.jpg It says: "Nothing is impossible to the unbreakable will. Even learning the Russian language."
 
Silent_Water said:
I simply cannot really explain why the last songs here remind me of this song of one of Germany's most famous comedians but if you find the connection you can tell me or even better: do not tell me the secret of the possible connection.

Here "Otto" after making some jokes in "Denglisch" (= German English !) sings first like Johnny Cash "The Ring of Fire" in English and then switches into German about his adventure when coming home from a long evening at the bar surprised about his smiling wife in the door finally remarking that it was the wrong door of the house next to his house where the "old dragon" is waiting for him and will let him crash. The funny thing for me was the unusual rhyming of "Drachen" (= Dragon), "krachen" (= crashing), "machen" (=making) etc.
By the way, the trumpeting elephant behind him is not an elephant but Otto's trademark: the "Ottifant" !

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To me a German translation of an English song is sometimes quite powerful. Here Purcell's Cold Song:
 
Nanette Scriba ... Whoah! Wow! OUOUOUOUOOOH Nanette!!!
You really hit me!
I simply cannot believe to see her name here again after such a looooong time ago - because about 30 years ago, I really fell in love with her ... hrm ... talent - unfortunately really only "platonic love" after I once saw her live on stage in a theater in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

In my opinion, she is one of the most talented experimental artists of Germany - also a bit crazy and difficult because of her sometimes special wishes for the producers of her shows concerning available sound possibilities etc.

She made German songs often mixed with other languages - also really like French "chansonniers". I cannot count the numbers of languages in which she sang and experimented with rhymes and rhythms. She is also a painter but because of her unusual artistic ideas, she never was really a part of the "mainstream-culture" in Germany, but when you see her face in younger years and her kind of making music, you might understand why I really loved her:

This is her "Anständiges Sonett" (= "Decent Sonnett") with rather indecent connotations of "nipples", "kissing" someone to a place on the body where you would not expected to be kissed etc.:


This is an example of her unusual rhythms in German songs starting and mixed in French - about the problems of love:


And her "being in command of the French language" is outstanding, too:


And this is a part of her homepage:

biography singer

Nanette Scriba - nicht nur Saengerin und Songpoetin, sondern auch bildende Kuenstlerin! Hier praesentiert sie ein magisches Lichtobjekt: le luminaire graphique.
nanette-scriba.de
 
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Praefectus Praetorio said:
She is the Purcell expert here.
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I love Purcell's music, but I'm far from being an expert - and 'King Arthur' is one of his works I can't pretend to know much of, though some pieces, including the 'Cold Song' are quite well-known. I agree that interpretation by Nanette Scriba is spine-tingling, really heart-grabbing. And Klaus Nomi's performance is superb too. It is an amazing composition, I entirely agree with Monty about the Philip Glass foretaste, it really is music that would rarely be heard again before the late 20th century - though perhaps Schubert was on the same wavelength:

 
Migoz2 said:
If one likes winter, it could be uplifting. And the performance is powerful (interesting video!). But I think it is really hard to beat this one........

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Klaus Nomi knew by then that he stood on the treshold of eternity. He suffered from AIDS as HIV was known then. There was so much misery in the gay communities all over the world.
So to end in a positive mood, something uplifting from Purcell. (Hate his wife btw. Who on earth locks her husband out so he dies of pneumonia. He was in his mid thirties. He could have made so much more beautiful music...)

 
Greate Pier said:
Klaus Nomi knew by then that he stood on the treshold of eternity. He suffered from AIDS as HIV was known then. There was so much misery in the gay communities all over the world.
So to end in a positive mood, something uplifting from Purcell. (Hate his wife btw. Who on earth locks her husband out so he dies of pneumonia. He was in his mid thirties. He could have made so much more beautiful music...)

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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a retrovirus mostly spread through unprotected sex, blood transfusions, contaminated needles, etc. AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) is an HIV infection when the T-Cell count drops below 200 or secondary infections associated with AIDS appear. Thanks to modern management treatments, there are millions of people today who are HIV positive but have not developed AIDS. Unfortunately, this came too late for Nomi and many, many others.:(
 
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