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Out on YouTube now: An Indo-German rendition of cult song ‘Wind of change’

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Out on YouTube now: An Indo-German rendition of cult song ‘Wind of change’

Exactly 30 years ago, on October 3, 1990, after the wall between the East and West had been brought down by the people of the land in November the previous year, Germany became one nation. At Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, a symbol of both division and then unification, The Scorpions, a rock band from Hanover, sang ‘Wind of Change’ against a backdrop of fireworks and people reunited. The event was telecast live across Germany.

A peace anthem

Walter J Lindner, then a diplomat at the start of his career, watched it from his home in Bonn, wishing he had been in Berlin, but enthralled because, “We thought in Germany this [the Cold War] would never end. Many people gave up hope after 40 years of separation,” he says. So the bringing down of the wall “was something of a miracle”, especially because “it came peacefully — it was very Gandhian”, even though the East Germans were “risking quite something”, he says, talking of Death Strip, a zone so heavily guarded and barricaded it was almost impossible to escape without being killed.

To commemorate the event during the pandemic, when the “diplomatic toolbox” of informal meetings and parties were suddenly rendered useless, he did not want to do another webinar, though the team knew it would have to be digital.

Lindner turned to music. This is not a surprise, because in his one-and-a-half years in India, he often hosts musical evenings at his residence, and collaborates with Indian musicians on both informal jam sessions and live performances. “That’s one of the first things I do in a country – I contact the musicians,” he says, of his tenures in South Africa, Venezuela, Turkey.

Thinking back to 1989-90, he felt ‘Wind of Change’ was the song that represented the era. In fact, Rolling Stone magazine once called it “a soundtrack of sorts to a political and cultural revolution”.

Reinventing a song

After speaking to Klaus Meine, the composer and lead singer, he got the rights to perform the song, and asked four Indian musicians he had played with before, if they would like to be a part of the project. “I wanted to have Indian ingredients like Indian spices to a German rock song, and to take the message to Germany also,” he says, acknowledging that fusion can be tricky.

Rakesh Chaurasia on the bansuri, Pandit Vikash Maharaj on the sarod, Prabhash Maharaj on tabla, and Abhishek Maharaj on the sitar, all consented. The 15th-generation musician, Prabhash says it is special for their Varanasi-based family because his father, Pandit Vikash, who has been going to Germany to play every year since 1978, except this year, witnessed history with the wall coming down. Prabhash knew the song, but did not know of its history.

Lindner, who has a studio at this Delhi home, played the guitar, keyboard, synthesizer, bass, percussion, and strings, and coordinated with Peter Retzlaff, a drummer he had worked with before in New York.

Four background voices — Vrnda Dhar, Renie Mathew, Akash Gadamsetty, Shambhavi Mishra — recorded their parts one at a time in a studio, and the musicians recorded theirs at home, all within 10 days between July and August.

He sent the musicians the master indicating where their parts came in, and integrated these into the master. Mumbai-based Chaurasia, who first met Lindner in South Africa at a concert, says while chord changes can be challenging for musicians schooled in classical music here, he found it easy to make the transition, because of his own experience playing with musicians who play different instruments. What appealed to him was that “the song has a soul” though he had not heard it before.

Then there was a singer to choose: “I needed someone who was soft but not too soft, still rocky.” He asked Gurugram-based singer-songwriter Chetan Dominic Awasthi (Chezin). Chetan, who was supposed to perform the song last year with The Revisit Project, at an event to celebrate German Unity Day, says it could not happen because it got washed out by the rain. “Mr Lindner was supposed to come up on stage and jam with us.”

The message today

The song itself, with words like, “The world is closing in/Did you ever think/That we could be so close/Like brothers?” was inspired by the 1989 Moscow Music Peace, where The Scorpions and several other metal acts performed. It was the first time that bands from beyond the Iron Curtain performed in then USSR, where terms like perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) were being explored.

Meanwhile in America this year, a podcast that describes the song as the “Anthem of progress, and freedom, and hope” at the time, claims that it was planted by the CIA. Linder dismisses it as a conspiracy theory: “Without (Mikhail) Gorbachev (the last president of the Soviet Union) this wouldn’t have been possible,” he says adding that there was no shooting order from Moscow. “It made this uprising a success. It was an uprising of people who said, ‘Enough is enough; we want freedom’. It was civil disobedience.”

Today, with the world not quite “closing in”, Lindner, whose bright red Ambassador waits for him in the drive, says what we need are charismatic politicians, a common consciousness around the globe that things have to change, more peace movements and a realisation that we don’t need conflicts.

For about six minutes though, there’s the song. The main message, says Prabhash, is to live “with love, peace, and music”.

Wind of change: Day of German Unity 2020 has been released today on YouTube with an introductory address by Klaus Meine

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“It was a radical idea at the time: to explore and fathom the very nature of the hardware and software associated with musical technology rather than simply using it in conventional ways. She understood the need to know how machines did what they did rather than simply what they did.”

IN MEMORIAM: PAULINE OLIVEROS (1932–2016), found here with a very nice text by Alvin Lucier.  

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Sat 09.11 Fausto Maijstral at Econore Noisefest

It's Noise Festival time again!! Line-up 2019.....complete: Peter Strickmann La Chasse Fausto Maijstral Günter Schlienz Spelterini Tachycardie Wandmalerei: Zora Kreuzer Videoinstallation: "1909" von Moritz Liewerscheidt festival.econore.com supported by Kulturbüro MG GUENTER SCHLIENZ "Seit über einem Jahrzehnt schafft Günter Schlienz meditative Werke von epischer Reichweite mit intimer, reflektierender Resonanz. Sein individueller Stil entspringt einer Experimentierfreude, die sich nicht nur in seinen Kompositionen manifestiert, sondern sich auch bei der Entwicklung seiner eigenen modularen Synthesizer und anderer elektronischer Instrumente zeigt. Der "kosmische Touch" ist immer präsent, trotz dem sind erdige und pastorale Szenen nie weit entfernt. Letztendlich ist seine Musik gleichermaßen von Freude, Melancholie, Natur und Raum geprägt." (daniel voigt, sicsic records) https://guenterschlienz.de https://guenterschlienz.bandcamp.com LA CHASSE La Chasse is a bass and drums duo from Marseille (Fr) playing since 2014. Oscillating between doom, punk, grunge and noise, they create a cold and dark universe with occult scents. After two cassette EPs and a debut LP "Noir plus noir que le noir" released in 2017, they are currently preparing a new album for 2020. http://lachasseband.fr https://lachasse1.bandcamp.com FAUSTO MAIJSTRAL Formed in 2010 in Berlin (Germany), the band spent several years performing and recording rough demos and live sets before heading into the studio to make their first full length release, recorded by Felix-Florian Todloff and mastered by Brian Pyle. Fausto Maijstral is Will Gresson and DuChamp, a drone duo based in Berlin and London. Under the name of Du Champ, Federica Rossella (Italy) has released her first solo album "Nar" out in 2013 on the Italian label Boring Machines. Will Gresson (New Zealand) has released many albums (field recordings / instrumentals) available on his bandcamp, he's also part of the band Palatial. https://fausto-maijstral.bandcamp.com https://duchampdrone.tumblr.com PETER STRICKMANN Artist and performer Peter Strickmann makes use of simple and sparse means aiming for a joint sounding- and listening-practice, oscillating between action and perception, focusing on the vibrant “Ding” and its social, acoustic and theatrical feedback. While collaborating with various improvising musical groups or noise-makers (Spemakh, Hawlimann & Stricktschek, ...) and exhibiting in a variety of contexts, Peter observes the potency of sound/soundmaking and the habits of listening in diverse routine- or extraordinary settings. Cassette and vinyl-releases were published by labels like meudiademorte (D), SPAM (D), Rayon (UK), Stenze Quo (NL). 2018 Ana Ott (D) published parts of Peter's Schnarcharchiv on his LP Mellow Toes. Peter Strickmann ist ein Künstler, der in öffentlichen und privaten Umgebungen die Tätigkeit des Hörens beobachtet, befragt und provoziert. Seine Installationen, Performances und Aktionen sind geprägt von einer Einfachheit der Mittel und einer Philosophie der Gemeinschaft. Das Hören - als kollektive oder auch als höchst individuelle Tätigkeit - sowie die Klangproduktion - als unvermeidbares Produkt des alltäglichen Lebens - bilden die Eckpfeiler seiner Installationen, Performances und Musiken u.a. mit den Gruppen Spemakh und Hawlimann & Stricktschek. Veröffentlichungen erschienen bei meudiademorte (D), SPAM (D), Rayon (UK), Stenze Quo (NL). 2018 erschien die LP Mellow Toes bei Ana Ott (D) mit Aufnahmen aus Peter‘s Schnarcharchiv. https://peterstrickmann.info soundcloud.com/peterstrickmann TACHYCARDIE Tachycardie is Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (Pneu, La Colonie De Vacances, Futuroscope...). Solo, he plays a set of percussions, synth, flutes and field recordings, mixed together to obtain a trance, a research of one and only sound, an electronic and chaotic gamelan, acoustic drones, or just a total mess. His new album has just been released by Un Je Ne Sais Quoi. https://unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/probables SPELTERINI Arthur de La Grandière (bass, synth), Nico Joubo (guitar), Pierre-Antoine Parois (drums), Meriadeg Orgebin (synth, guitar). When two ex-Chausse-Trappe and two members of Papier Tigre and La Colonie de Vacances got together mid-2017 to try out some of Orgebin’s ideas, it soon became the band Spelterini. Named after the tightrope artist Maria Spelterini, their music is always on the edge, tense yet flexible. They make their own fabric based on minimalism, drones, feedback and every accident, break or any other part is captured by the band and fuels the creative process, reenacting each performance and enhancing their direct approach. The band is already a remarkable touring act with acclaimed performances at the Levitation festival in Angers and everywhere in France. The band's first release 'pergélisol/ Chorémanie' will be released on September 20th, 2019 on Kythibong records in France (vinyl LP) and Mascarpone Discos in Spain (cassette tape). https://soundcloud.com/spelterini ZORA KREUZER Zora Kreuzer erforscht in ihrer Arbeit Architektur und den öffentlichen Raum. Mit Farbe und Licht kreiert sie großformatige Wandmalereien und Lichtinstallationen. Die Arbeiten werden vor Ort entwickelt und entstehen aus einer direkten Auseinandersetzung mit dem Raum. Geprägt von klaren, geometrischen Formen und konzeptuellen Interventionen, sind die Arbeiten in ihrer Bildsprache konkret und minimalistisch. Farblich liegt Kreuzers Schwerpunkt auf Neonfarben, deren Leuchtkraft sie gezielt einsetzt. Als Lichtmaterial dienen ihr meist Leuchtstoffröhren, deren Ästhetik und deren Verbindung zum öffentlichen Raum sie sehr schätzt. Zora Kreuzer (geb. 1986 in Bonn, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) studierte Malerei an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe als Meisterschülerin von Leni Hoffmann (bis 2013) sowie an der École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg und der Contemporary Art School in Tianjin, China. Ausstellungen u.a. in der Simultanhalle, Köln, bei dr.julius I ap, Berlin, im Adhoc, Bochum, im E-Werk Freiburg, im Pieterskerkhof – Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, im Kunstverein Lüneburg, auf der Fremantle Biennale, im Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts und im Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt. 2014 erhielt Zora Kreuzer das Stipendium der Christoph Merian Stiftung in Fremantle, Australien, 2016 war sie artist-in-residence im PICA – Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts und 2017 im Fremantle Arts Centre, Australien. 2017 erhielt sie den Van Look Preis, Freiburg und 2019 das Residenzstipendium der International Elias-Canetti Society in Ruse, Bulgarien. https://zorakreuzer.weebly.com MORITZ LIEWERSCHEIDT Jahrgang 1981. Studium der Philosophie in Düsseldorf und der Medienkunst an der KHM in Köln. Seit 2012 freier Künstler und Filmemacher im Bereich des Experimental- und Essayfilms. Beteiligung an diversen Ausstellungen und Festivals. Prix de la ville de Bois-le-Roi 2015. Screenings und Gastvorträge auch im akademischen Kontext. Filme (Auswahl): Jahrhundertwende (2012), Andere Gärten – Das ABC des Florian Schenkel (2015), Res Severa Verum Gaudium (2016), Im toten Park (2019). 2019 Gründung der Silberstein Produktion für Animation und Experimentalfilm. Moritz Liewerscheidt lebt in Berlin. www.moritzliewerscheidt.de