Had a wonderful evening at the Unterfahrt in Munich with The Bad Plus.
The Guardian describes ‘em like this:
“If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.”
Straight to the point!
Hope you like the picture like I do. :-)
This story is lovely, so listen closely:
In 1969 an unkown band, called The Winstons, recorded two unknown songs. The second song, named Amen Brother, for the B-side of the single was nothing special. It did not even have a bass line, but it had four meters of a drumfill, that became the foundation of a whole musical genre I really enjoyed during my clubbing days.
I never liked electronic music, like Techno, Goa, Acid,… , too much, but there was one sub-genre, i really loved and still do: Drum’n Bass
Whoever experienced and listened to Drum’n Bass tunes of course knows the beat, which forms the foundation of the specific Drum’n Bass sound.
In words it’s something like this: Boooooom Tchakk, Boom Tchakk, Boooooom Tchakk, Boom Tchakk.
Listen to this, to know what I am talking about:
This is not the best D’n'B song ever, but it includes the typical Drum’n Bass rhythm.
And this rhythm is a result of sampling and speeding up of the four meters in this 40 year old song of the band The Winstons.
Listen to the original at 1:26:
Read the whole story in German on einestages – Spiegel Online.
Another scene taken on a drive by shooting on a train.
I especially like the title. :-)
It’s called: Transcendental [philos.] Factualness
Taken this morning in front of the central station in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
It’s called: Conrete Discomfort
Here are some other shots taken and image processed on my smartphone.
These are examples on how easy it is to take a picture and process it to a certain effect in no time on a device as big as a film cartridge of a Polaroid SX-70.
They are far from perfect, but in some points, photography has lost it’s magic. In the early days, you had to have great knowledge of the technics of a camera. You had to be able develop a film and how to develop it for certain effects.
In our days, let’s take 200 pictures, crop the best to a good picture detail, correct the colors, insert objects, remove objects and so on…
Don’t get me wrong, that’s an art too, but in this way, I think, I will never become a good photographer… just a good wanna be photographer… but never say never. ;-)
I hope you like em! :-)
For the time being I am a commuter between my current town of being – Munich – and my town of functioning – Frankfurt. The good thing about commuting is, you have time to rest and think, while you’re on the track. If I travel in the early hours, I usually try to get some sleep and I discovered, low classical music helps me doing so and especially it helps suppress the chit-chat of fellow passengers on the train.
So I regularly listen to the classical music channel on the trains I go. The last few weeks they presented the last record of Armin Müller-Stahl, who best known as an actor in movies and plays.
What I didn’t know, he studied musicology before his career in performing arts and the songs on the record were written during the last 45 years. The record seems to be one of these procrastinated thing and gladly Müller-Stahl took the time just before his 80th birthday as a chance to arrange and record these songs.
The result is a record full of sensitive, sometimes melancholic songs with profound lyrics, often related to his experiences in the German Democratic Republic. But even if you don’t notice the meaning Müller-Stahl intended, you will find something in the music and lyrics offered, if you like ironic, romantic, moony and sometimes angry feelings embedded in a bed of piano and accordion.
Get a first taste here: Armin Mueller-Stahl / Günther Fischer / Tobias Morgenstern – Die Blaue Kuh
Consult the record dealer of your choice to get it!
PS: Nevermind if you did not recognize the connection between “Die Blaue Kuh” and the FDJ. I didn’t either. ;-)
The following shots are a result of a spring walk with the family.
The last two pictures are a result of too much sharpness, saturation and exposure.
A few words to my style: In short… I don’t have one yet. I am still a novice and eager to learn, so don’t be too harsh in your critics. ;-)
Let me first explain the concept of “On the go”-art. It’s some kind of hit-and-run photography, done when you see a scene worth capturing. Mostly this is not even done with my beloved Canon 50D, because it’s at home. Most shots – like the one you see – are created using my smartphone and even image processing is done with it.
I hope you enjoy them!
The first picture in these series I captured – endangering my own life – while driving through the woods on a winter’s night.
I hope I was able to freeze the mood.
Hail all,
my mind was bugged about the future what was “Bitschnaus Welt” and now became “Bitschnau’s World”. Be assured, the language it not the only difference to the former blog of Thomas Bitschnau. :-)
The topic will change from … whatever it was before (???) to culture in general and music, arts and my personal photography in particular.
Since I spent the last day with configuring the blog and setting up the design – which will be impressive by the way – the content is still missing.
So I have to ask for your patience, but once more be assured, it will pay off.
Yours,
Thomas