Another Night, Another Dream

Let me introduce a new idea to whosoever may view this blog. It's about music. Music is everything. Without music, what would there be in this endless vacuum we refer to as 'world'? It's a universal language. We talk about music, we love music, we feel music. Those who can in no way relate - or pretend to - to the latter may I add, have been living their lives in vain. Music is all about feeling and healing. There is a right kind of music for any situation - happiness, sorrow, freedom, compassion, you name it.

I just happen to like the term 'versus' very much. This may refer to two or more bands or members of a band who decide to record a song together or become engaged in a sort of rivalry which does not necessarily have to mean they are battling in order to make a point in front of the general audience.

Another term which I also happen to like is 'featuring'. When a band or an artist decides to make something like this, there are two possible results. Considering the modern times we live in which sometimes even imply combining two or more artists coming from different musical genre backgrounds, we can conclude: the outcoming song is either a hit or a useless waste of time. The merging of genres must be carefully supervised, in order for it not to become a failure. Even the two most different styles of music we never dared imagine possible may just as well exist combined into a single one. I'll come back to this in a later post. Now on with my story...

A couple of weeks ago, I got hold of some Schiller videos. Schiller, (once a german band, now only Christopher von Deylen, one of the founders of the band is going solo under the name Schiller) experimenting various styles, such as trance, new age and ambient came to a certain point in 2002 when he decided to team up with Peter Heppner, (member of the band Wolfsheim) for the song 'Dream of You'. It was probably the success of the song that determined Schiller to go on working with Heppner for their next hit, which became really famous. This hit was called 'Leben... I Feel You', though most people refer to it as only 'I Feel You'.
Among these videos I got my hands on was a video of Schiller's whose viewing for reasons unknown I tended to postpone.

About a half an hour ago, I watched the video. Only once. Then I started just listening to the song, but this time without viewing the video itself. Who is Xavier Naidoo who does the vocals? Back in the days when we had VIVA through cable, my eyes were kind of stuck to the TV set while listening to Xavier's 'Sie Sieht Mich Nicht' (She Doesn't See Me). Now let me imagine a song with both Schiller and Xavier in it. Not impossible, I said to myself. Then I saw the video... I can't quite claim I've never before seen so touching a video, but it moved me in some way. I can feel it. Maybe it will move you too if you get its message... the song is called 'Sehnsucht'(Yearning) ...

Schiller Mit Heppner Und Isgaard - Dream Of You



Schiller Mit Peter Heppner - Leben... I Feel You



Xavier Naidoo - Sie Siecht Mich Nicht



Schiller Mit Isgaard - Ein Schoner Tag



Schiller Mit Xavier Naidoo - Sehnsucht (Video N/A in Romania...)

Saturday, ~10:30 AM

Saturday: I was sitting on a bench at the train station in Cluj. At least an hour had passed. I was waiting for Her. There, I lived a "living on video" phenomenon. The video in question was Alvarez and Peter Heppner's 'Vielleicht'. Watched a couple of pigeons, crows and sparrows fly around. Shared a kurtos kalacs, a sandwich and an orange with an old homeless lady sitting next to me on that row of benches. I found out she once had a decent life, she had been a respectable woman, but once she took drinking way too seriously this was how things eventually wound up.

The Video:

Saturday: I was sitting on a bench at the train station in Cluj. At least an hour had passed. I was waiting for her. There, I lived a "living on video" phenomenon. The video in question was Alvarez and Peter Heppner's 'Vielleicht'. Watched a couple of pigeons, crows and sparrows fly around. Shared a kurtos kalacs, a sandwich and an orange with an old homeless lady sitting next to me on that row of benches. I found out she once had a decent life, she had been a respectable woman, but once she took drinking way too seriously this was where things eventually wound up.