looking back on eno‘s seminar on songwriting

I even wrote one song in these weeks, a spoken-word piece with a bit of singing – 😉 – called „Ein kleiner Strand“. I like it enough to post it here one day… in case, Tommy Perman and Jan Bang add their magic! It was a great experience to come together with people from all over the world. Hello, Tom Boon! But, I am so familiar with Brian‘s thoughts, and not really planning to write songs in the future, that it had a kind of nostalgic vibe. Brian is in the years now, as we all are who grew up with his music from the 70‘s onwards. And, apart from his clear and humourous ways of lecturing, the Brian who keeps surprising me most, is the Brian putting out new albums. Secretly, I am hoping fo another song album. What he did on „Foreverandevernomore“ was definitely a fantastic late work, opening new gates of perception with a voice and vocals that have aged well. The song he created for Eno, the documentary, „All I Remember“ showed clearly that he can still write songs that are more connected with a sensual and visceral memory, instead of the dark time travel songs of a distant future (the near future yesterday threw some dark shadows on politics in Germany with fucking right wing fascists and a future Kanzler counting on their voices). And it was a very personal song. Why not do a whole work of such sophisticated, sentimental torch songs!? An artist who regularly refuses to write confessional songs would surprise us one more time. By the way, my song „Ein kleiner Strand“ has a distant echo of Seven Regener‘s songs, but it is not a love song, and will have, in its final version (that probably never sees the light of day) more electronics inside.