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All Through The Night - Konni Deppe & Andreas Hermeyer |
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Get out of
Town
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Cole
Porter (1891 – 1964)
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2:31
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| You
and Me |
Henry
Mancini (1924 – 1994)
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2:53
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| Leicht
verstimmt (Desafinado) |
Antonio
Carlos Jobim (1927 – 1994)
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2:50
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| Crazy
World |
Henry
Mancini (1924 – 1994)
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2:20
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| J’attendrai |
Dino
Olivieri (1905 – 1963)
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3:34
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| Laura
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David
Raksin (1912 – 2004)
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4:44
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| Watch
what Happens |
Michel
Legrand (*1932)
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2:22
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| Amapola |
José
Maria Lacalle (1860 – 1937)
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5:30
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| Bei
Dir war es immer so schön |
Theo
Mackeben (1897 – 1953)
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4:30
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| Summer
Skies |
Leroy
Anderson (1908 – 1975)
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2:41
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| Pick
Yourself up |
Jerome
Kern (1885 – 1945)
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2:16
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| Smile |
Charlie
Chaplin (1889 – 1977)
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2:48
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| All
Through the Night |
Welsh
Traditional
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3:19
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Total
Time
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42:31
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| Sound
Samples: under
construction |
Book:
Singing and accordion in jazz and lyric songs
To a large extent the accordion in connection with singing is recognized
in folk music and traditional entertainment music (sea shanties,
lullabies, and such). The instrument is less known in jazz and chanson,
for sensitive songs with refined harmonies or those originatin from
movie films that often became world hits.
The book
reports about this demanding, entertaining, internationally treasured
and loved music and goes into detail about the little known, to
a certain extent never discovered remaining possibilities of the
relationship between accordion and singing. This occurs with the
assistance of two outstanding German artists, accordionist Andreas
Hermeyer and singer Konni Deppe.
TV stars
like Goetz Alsmann, Ulrich Tukur, and Botho Lucas as well as further
top-caliber artists are quoted in this book and make statements
about the accordion and the music presented here as well as its
excellent interpreters.
Both
musicians comment in a light manner about every piece that they
have presented for listing on the CD accompanying this book. In
a refreshing manner they present a remarkably interesting view behind
the scenes and provide the reader with revealing details about their
work, the music, the composers, and themselves.
Anecdotes
alternate with long unknown official information about the individual
songs. Song texts are completely printed and can be understood with
the music. The richly illustrated attractive volume provided with
many photos takes the reader on a trip in the exceptionally fascinating
landscape of music sung with accordion, whose beauty can be discovered
through reading and listening.
CD:
Film classics and songs in special arrangements
Treasured and to a large extent well-known jazz standards, classics
from movie films, chansons, and real folk songs are presented here
in the setting of song and accordion. On the CD accompanying the
book one can convince himself how exciting new, unusual, and fascinating
familiar old songs like Desafinado, Amapola, Watch What Happens,
and Smile can sound with singing and accordion when top-caliber
musicians like Konni Deppe (singing) and Andreas Hermeyer (accordion)
present these in a practically breathtaking manner with their witty
and imaginative arrangements.
Very
well known pieces are performed in a completely new manner and open
up quite new angles of observation and worlds of experience. When
Konni Deppe's transformable jazz and chanson voice is merged with
accordionist Andreas Hermeyer's virtuoso and sentimental playing
into an integrated whole, one can no longer avoid the wake of the
intoxicating muse.
With
Andreas Hermeyer, a master student of the great German accordion
virtuosos Hans Rauch and Hubert Deuringer, one of the best interpreters
of cultivated entertainment music on accordion can be heard. His
flexible manner of playing with polished and fine stylistics is
convincing in connection with his artistic arrangements. The international
concert jazz singer Konni Deppe complements this instrumental hemisphere
with her seductive song and creates a magical atmosphere.
The duo
is tonally enriched by famous guest musicians, who additionally
round off the thrilling cosmos of accordion and singing with sensitive
percussion and double bass sounds. That the CD's sound quality does
not lack brilliance thereby is due to the artistic level of the
musicians in their conformity.
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