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Well actually if you don't have hair on your body, you usually end up with very dry skin... so keep some lotion handy, girls...

And I might have to go to Germany soon... where the heck is Weimar??

 

Brittney you just look scary!!

Balfriede, you post surrealistic pictures, don't you?

Edited by philippe

I always thought German girls went "hairy"!

The album will be out in August. You can see the cover in our avatar. The pictures of us we occasionally publish in here are from the cover of the album (promotion is important!).  If you want a better view of the album cover, here it is:

thanks! I particularly like the foto on the left...a really mysterious, surnatural beauty!!

all the best for your band!

What kind of musical mood is developped in this rather obscure project?

philippe wrote: thanks! I particularly like the foto on the left...a really mysterious, surnatural beauty!! all the best for your band! What kind of musical mood is developped in this rather obscure project?

I described the music a bit in 2 other posts of mine:

Watch out for the debut album of the Bald Angels (a 2 women band with guest musicians; I play keyboards and sing some harmony vocals and am responsible for the compositions, my partner plays drums and sings lead vocals and is responsible for the lyrics; guest instruments include bass and guitar, violin, saxes and flute, and cello) "The Goat and the Donkey". It should be out in August. If you ever wanted to know what a female version of Peter Hammill on acid sounds like this album is for you.

Hello, I'm Jeanine and was born in the USA (Oakland, CA), but moved to Germany in 1993 and have been living there ever since. I'm 36 years old. Among my hobbies is playing piano (usually classical and jazz), and I'm in a band called "Bald Angels" that will hopefully have their first album out in August (hooray!). I live with our drummer and lead singer, who also happens to be my wife (same-sex marriage is legal here; now don't be shocked). The band is our hobby only; we own a restaurant here. The idea for producing an album stems from the occasional musical performances we give in our restaurant. We play classical and jazz there. The album will be a rock album though (named "The Goat and the Donkey", by the way, after a joke in which a singing goat and a piano playing donkey appear). There'll be 2 classical tracks on it though, "Der Erlkönig" (The Eller King) by Franz Schubert (lyrics Goethe) and "Der Feuerreiter" (The Firerider) by Hugo Wolf (lyrics Eduard Mörike). They are for piano and voice only, but Friederike, my wife, doesn't sing these songs (which both are very dramatic, by the way) in classical style, but more like a female version of Peter Hammill on acid. The rest of the album will not be classical, but  prog rock (and the way these classical pieces are sung they are prog rock too, believe me; the piano is very rhythmic in both compositions. Perhaps one or the other of you knows them even).

We think we are quite unique. Of course we have influences, everyone has them, but we created something new out of them. There's even one track in which I use the Usbekian technique of throat singing.

The name of our album is based on a joke in which a piano playing donkey and a singing goat appear and make wonderful music.

The joke about the goat and the donkey goes like this: "The pilot of a one-seated airplane has to make an emergency landing in he middle of the desert. He starts walking, and after a few hours he reaches the edge of the desert. There is an old shabby cottage there. He knocks, and an old man opens who is overjoyed to meet him. "Finally a visitor! Come in, come in; you have no idea how it is to live alone in the wilderness.". He serves the pilot some of the finest food he has ever eaten, together with an excellent Bordeaux, and after the meal he says: "Since you are my first visitor I'll show you something special." He leaves the cottage and returns with a donkey. The donkey sits down at a piano and starts playing with utmost virtuosity - Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin. "Fantastic!" says the pilot. "Wait, that ain't all" replies the old man and leaves the cottage again. He returns with a goat. The goat rears on its hindlegs, leans on the piano and starts singing with a beautiful voice to the accompaniment of the donkey - Lieder by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann. "Incredible!" says the pilot. "You could make millions with that. Why do you live on the edge of this desert instead?" The old man starts weeping: "It's all a hoax, it's all a hoax." "What is a hoax?" asks the pilot. "The goat can't sing at all, the donkey is a ventriloquist!"

Since when we get on stage in our restaurant one of us (I) plays piano and the other sings (drums would be too loud in our restaurant) we named the record after this joke.

We, however, give a rendition of what we think it would actually sound like: I bang at the piano with my fists only, like a donkey would with hooves, and she makes bleating noises all the time.

Snow Dog wrote: Poor Brittney.......her thread has been hi-jacked.

Nice picture of yours, Brittney!!!

 

threefates wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Thanks, we like to use baby oil all over us (now that may give you something to fantasize about). And Weimar is near Berlin. Unless you are rubbing that oil all over Greg Lake... I doubt I'll be doing any fantasizing about you!!   Even then I doubt the fantasy would include you!!

what ARE we going to do with you....