Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:54
Size: 101,8 MB
Art: Front
(2:49) 1. Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau
(3:53) 2. After the Rain
(4:04) 3. Bei dir war es immer so schön
(3:51) 4. Happy Days Are Here Again
(3:41) 5. Das Lied ist aus: Frag' nicht warum ich gehe
(3:33) 6. Answer Me My Love
(3:06) 7. September Song
(3:17) 8. Sommer, See und Sonnenschein
(3:48) 9. It's Oh So Quiet
(4:17) 10. Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
(3:57) 11. Schlummerlied
(3:33) 12. Irgendwo auf der Welt
Berlin - New York
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:54
Size: 101,8 MB
Art: Front
(2:49) 1. Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau
(3:53) 2. After the Rain
(4:04) 3. Bei dir war es immer so schön
(3:51) 4. Happy Days Are Here Again
(3:41) 5. Das Lied ist aus: Frag' nicht warum ich gehe
(3:33) 6. Answer Me My Love
(3:06) 7. September Song
(3:17) 8. Sommer, See und Sonnenschein
(3:48) 9. It's Oh So Quiet
(4:17) 10. Der Wind hat mir ein Lied erzählt
(3:57) 11. Schlummerlied
(3:33) 12. Irgendwo auf der Welt
The jazz singer Lyambiko illuminates the composer scene between Berlin and New York between the 1930s and 1950s: pop cultural globalization between Nazi terror and artistic exile.
The four-time German Jazz Award winner and ECHO jazz winner Lyambiko releases “Berlin - New York”, a personal and political album. Together with the arranger Max Knoth (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lou Reed, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Matthew Herbert) and the WDR Funkhausorchester, conducted by Frank Strobel, she illuminates the diverse global connections of music culture in the "torn times" of the 1930s to the 1950s.
After countless appearances, tours and ten successful albums, Lyambiko is given a book as a gift: "Don't make your eyes sad because you're a little Negro". It tells the story of Marie Nejar, daughter of colored parents, who grew up under harassment in the Third Reich and became a singing child star in the young Federal Republic in the 1950s under the stage name Leila Negra. Lyambiko, herself the daughter of a Tanzanian and a German, finds her long familiar songs in Marie Nejar's autobiography, such as "Answer Me My Love" (Gerhard Winkler - 1952), which she has performed countless times. The book about an apparently distant, turbulent time has a strangely up-to-date effect and thus becomes the starting point for a musical and personal journey of discovery. Lyambiko came across sound film hits, radio hits and musicals, some of them immortalized in the "Great American Songbook", which were written by American and German composers in the 1920s to 1950s. Although everyday life was characterized by economic crises, wars and a terror regime in Germany, there was a lively international exchange between the songwriter circles in Berlin and Tin Pan Alley (New York City). The connection between European and American entertainment culture, as documented in countless cover versions of popular songs - such as the Comedian Harmonists - has existed since the beginning of the American music industry around 1900.
The song collection "Berlin - New York", carefully curated by Lyambiko and adapted by Max Knoth for the WDR Funkhausorchester, illuminates the pop cultural transfer between Germany and the USA in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Songs like "The wind told me a song" (Lothar Brühne - 1937), "September Song" (Kurt Weill - 1938), "Somewhere in the World" (Werner Richard Heymann - 1932) or "It's Oh So Quiet" ( Hans Lang - 1948) show the contradictions and ambivalences of these decades in an unforgettable way. The special thing about these songs, many of which are in the “Great American Songbook”, are the catchy, mostly optimistic but also sentimental melodies. They are ballads that, enriched by elements of jazz, Irish folk music or Central European operettas, stand out from the large number of songs at that time.https://www.lyambiko.com/berlin-new-york/
The four-time German Jazz Award winner and ECHO jazz winner Lyambiko releases “Berlin - New York”, a personal and political album. Together with the arranger Max Knoth (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lou Reed, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Matthew Herbert) and the WDR Funkhausorchester, conducted by Frank Strobel, she illuminates the diverse global connections of music culture in the "torn times" of the 1930s to the 1950s.
After countless appearances, tours and ten successful albums, Lyambiko is given a book as a gift: "Don't make your eyes sad because you're a little Negro". It tells the story of Marie Nejar, daughter of colored parents, who grew up under harassment in the Third Reich and became a singing child star in the young Federal Republic in the 1950s under the stage name Leila Negra. Lyambiko, herself the daughter of a Tanzanian and a German, finds her long familiar songs in Marie Nejar's autobiography, such as "Answer Me My Love" (Gerhard Winkler - 1952), which she has performed countless times. The book about an apparently distant, turbulent time has a strangely up-to-date effect and thus becomes the starting point for a musical and personal journey of discovery. Lyambiko came across sound film hits, radio hits and musicals, some of them immortalized in the "Great American Songbook", which were written by American and German composers in the 1920s to 1950s. Although everyday life was characterized by economic crises, wars and a terror regime in Germany, there was a lively international exchange between the songwriter circles in Berlin and Tin Pan Alley (New York City). The connection between European and American entertainment culture, as documented in countless cover versions of popular songs - such as the Comedian Harmonists - has existed since the beginning of the American music industry around 1900.
The song collection "Berlin - New York", carefully curated by Lyambiko and adapted by Max Knoth for the WDR Funkhausorchester, illuminates the pop cultural transfer between Germany and the USA in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Songs like "The wind told me a song" (Lothar Brühne - 1937), "September Song" (Kurt Weill - 1938), "Somewhere in the World" (Werner Richard Heymann - 1932) or "It's Oh So Quiet" ( Hans Lang - 1948) show the contradictions and ambivalences of these decades in an unforgettable way. The special thing about these songs, many of which are in the “Great American Songbook”, are the catchy, mostly optimistic but also sentimental melodies. They are ballads that, enriched by elements of jazz, Irish folk music or Central European operettas, stand out from the large number of songs at that time.https://www.lyambiko.com/berlin-new-york/
Berlin - New York
