Interactive Poll 14 ~ It's The Guys Turn This Time

A further one that I'm not going to nominate, just to add some more German stuff after all the Italian delight.

Actually this band, Kante, were together with Blumfeld leaders of what in the 1990s was called "new Hamburg school", although this song is quite different from the Blumfeld one posted earlier. New Hamburg school was a rather relaxed approach to music (here apparent in the singing, which is more typical for new Hamburg school than Jochen Distelmeyer's distinctive voice in Blumfeld) with focus on the often somewhat intellectual lyrics and message, often melodic (although that's Blumfeld and Kante more than the others), taking in influences from music such as post rock but also singer/songwriter style.

Kante did more sophisticated arrangements than Blumfeld, whereas Blumfeld focused more on voice and lyrics, although Kante have some very melodic voice-oriented stuff as well.

The somewhat sad personal background story to this one is that my girlfriend at the time and I were big fans of the previous Kante album Zweilicht. When this one came out, we heard it first on the radio independently of each other (there was a very similar but less sad story with another lady in an earlier poll). I thought that this is one of the very best love songs I ever heard, with very moving but still occasionally surprising and interesting lyrics, and I also fell for the melody and arrangement. When we met, however, she said (before I had talked about it) "have you heard the new Kante song? It doesn't tell me anything, I'm very disappointed". I was shocked and couldn't make sense of it, because of course I had thought of her when I had listened to it. I tried to ignore this in the following because obviously in a couple you don't have to love the same music. But still, it was hard to accept this. It turned out that actually it was the first indication that I remember that something wasn't quite right anymore between us; the relationship afterwards still went on for a few years from then but other things happened and emotionally the distance became bigger and bigger, eventually leading to separation. Music is important, and now I think it meant something that we disagreed so strongly on this song.

I still think this is marvellous, but I don't connect it to anyone in particular anymore. And I'd say it has a very northern German feel.

I was thinking about translating a few lines, but I don't manage to translate the more original and lyrical stuff so that it comes anywhere near making the same sense in English than in German. The title means "where the rivers sing" and they go on "I want to spend my time with you". This isn't that exciting, but there's also "I want to spend my time with you in the realm of the informal economy where the rumours circulate" and other weird  stuff... hahaha, maybe that lady was right and it all doesn't make any sense.

My nomination is still "Jorge Palma - Estrela do Mar". I'm Samuel (or Sam), by the way. I actually don't like my username anymore (it sounded cool when I was 18), it always seems odd to be called by it

I haven't had much time or energy for music lately, I hope I'll be able to at least hear the nominees this weekend.

Raff wrote: I always have the impression that what I have to say doesn't interest anyone.

I always find your posts interesting. Even though we have different taste in Prog, I sometimes find something very much to my liking, like Ut Gret or iNFiNiEN the other day.