2024&2025 a few of my favourite things After a year's break, now back again – a little later than usual – on this streaming-platform: My very own video review of the past years, which I am delighted to share with you; featuring – how could it be otherwise – water in every shape and form and, time and again, a gaze into the distance Impressions that I captured – quite by chance – with my cell phone and would like to share with you. 💗 ernst
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Leonard Cohens "Hallelujah" - Interview 1991
Just after listening to the documentary BBC Radio2 did on the impact of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" on so many musicians, I went AGAIN to that cupboard, where I store my treasures from the past and copied what the master said on John Cale's version of "Hallelujah". Cale's cover was pretty new then: the interview took place in Leonard Cohen's livingroom in Los Angeles and it was October 1991. And this is, what Cohen said: Listen to this wonderfull live-version of Hallelujah And some years later - it was in May 1997 - I met John Cale and asked him about Leonard Cohen's Song. What strikes me now, listening to his statement: He didn't seem to like the song very much, mainly because of it's religous connotations ... Both gentlemen gave very short answers about the other person ... I'll not interpret that ... instead I give you the link to John Cale's "Hallelujah" and finally, here's Jeff Buckleys enigmatic "Hallelu...
Reisen in die unmittelbare Nähe 2: Elefantenbach
Hat die Temperatur eines Baches einen Einfluss auf die Töne, die er von sich gibt? Im Zürcher Quartier Hottingen gibt es noch ziemlich viel Stadtwald und am 700 Meter hohen Adlisberg entspringt der Stöckentobelbach, der im Seefeld in den Zürichsee mündet. Dieser Bach ist bei den Zürchern aber als "Elefantenbach" bekannt, weil im unteren Teil des Tobels (in der Nähe der Schlyfi) ein steinerner Elefant steht und falls das Laub nicht schon wieder den Eingang verstopft, dann spuckt der Elefant in einem hohen Bogen durch seinen Rüssel das Wasser des Baches talwärts. Aber die essenzielle Frage steht im Raum und ist nicht beantwortet: Tönt Wasser anders wenn es kalt ist?

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