Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us. This album is all about love and life and doing most things only once but keeping memories and a song. Dedicated to my loving father Wolfgang Zinz for whom music is a life long sharing of passion. The nursery rhyme (Kinderreim) is dedicated to my beloved children Charlotte, Johanna, Eléna, Sophia, Jakob, Paula, Anton, and Julius for singing with me these words in breathless tempo, and Anna and Paul I would have loved to sing it for.

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Light Shadows

Another lazy afternoon
The hours silently pass by
Why bother?
We're together. You sigh

An evening will bring the Moon
Will this be a lush goodbye?
Nightmares?
Who cares?

Those will have to wait
Or Dinner?
Let's dream instead
Lazy

Us, slowly kissing
Still, both of us 
naked in bed
Me, barely moving

You, nearly sleeping
Ssh

Another Lazy Afternoon

Kling, Gloeckchen, kling (Folk song)

Leise rieselt der Schnee (Eduard Ebel  1895)

Take 0xfacefade - Lyrics:

shhh!
The mountains call me now and then.
The mountains call, but I don't care.
Plains whisper. 
The creeks flow.
What do I know?
shhh.

2018

The Mountains Call Me

The Mountains Call Me (Take 0xfacefade)

Memories of Swiss Summer

Short on Time

Lazy afternoon
Evening will be soon
Who cares

Lazy
Ssh

Lazy Afternoon

Elliott said Nai!
That gentle and
Distracted word
Only this 
One time 
But with 
No rhyme

Nai Nai Nai Nai!
Elliott said Nai!

The memory of
Blurred but happy shared 
Moments of joy in 
Happy friendly 
Round with this 
Intense and
Wild boy 
Who said 
Nai Nai!

Exploring and smiling
Tumbling and crawling
Nai Nai Nai Nai!
Elliott said Nai!

Nai Nai Nai Nai!
Elliott said Nai!

Bye bye

Bye bye

Elliott Said Nai

Now in November, do you remember the days
My Wife, my Love, Martha and Mechthild all apart
I wonder: Like me, do you still remember our stays
Now, whatever you do and where ever you are

The pictures of past years we share in our minds
That cold Antwerp harbor and both of us early March
The autumn is not here to stay forever it will fall behind
While we await the next spring if there is still one for us

The image of a slippery edge to walk on, stumble or fall
Cold salty water, the pale sky above preparing for dusk
Run-down promenade venue on high heels awaits them all
Two seagulls silently float in the gray air above us

Out of a sudden, our eyes meet, you move and I sing
Da-da-de-taa-de-dah, da-da-de-taa-de-dah
The song of our love in November of life in full swing
Di-di-di-di-ditti-ditti-dah and you smile and dance

When I asked you to dance with me humming along
This September in the arcades of Bern where tourists stare
Reluctant you were but brave by heart you joined the song
Dagmaria, my love, my life, dear wife, and life's fire flare

Da-da-de-taa-de-dah, da-da-de-taa-de-dah
For now apart we live our love in November
Di-di-di-di-ditti-ditti-dah it's you that I love
Closing my eyes, I see you smile and dance

Love in November

Burrito Baroque (Suite in E Minor for Lute, BWV 996: V. Bourreé)

Recorded live in Stans, Switzerland on 2018-NOV-25.

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach 
Transcription: Stefan Hagen
Acoustic guitar: Stefan Hagen
Recording: Breathe in, breathe out.
Guitar: Aria, 1987 (probably fallen from a truck - no s/n, cost ~333 €)

Thank you To Renate Zinz, born Trautwein

Burrito Baroque

Burrito Baroque (Suite in E Minor for Lute, BWV 996: V. Bourreé)

A wrap of brooding themes, variations, sounds from the underground travels and a dab of Bach.

Why don't you just wait?
Listen to what I said
Why do I not listen to you?

No Waiting

A wrap of brooding themes, variations, sounds from the underground travels and a dab of Bach.

Confusing Directions

When We Meet Again

Cautiously Confident

A wrap of brooding themes, variations, sounds from the underground travels and a dab of Bach.

Recorded live in Stans, Switzerland on 2018-NOV-25.

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach 
Transcription: Stefan Hagen
Acoustic guitar: Stefan Hagen
Recording: Breathe in, breathe out.
Guitar: Aria, 1987 (probably fallen from a truck - no s/n, cost ~333 €)

Suite in E Minor for Lute, BWV 996: V. Bourreé

The winter came along with a song
Schlaf schön gut' Nacht 
Und Morgen
Spring is waiting
This isn't life, this is just
Below 
This isn't life, this is just
The snow
Is this a knife? Come on, let's talk

The winter came along with a song
Or I'll walk
Spring is waiting
Below 
The snow
Schlaf' schön gut' Nacht 
Und Morgen bist Du wieder wach
Schlaf' schön gut' Nacht 
Und Morgen bist Du wieder wach
Bye bye
Love and smile

The winter came along with a song
Spring is waiting
Below
The snow
Schlaf' schön gut' Nacht
Und Morgen bist Du wieder wach
Why don't we 
Just live?
Just live

The winter came along with a song
Just live
Spring is waiting
Below
The snow
Schlaf' schön
Gut' Nacht
Und Morgen
Just live
Bist Du wieder wach

The winter came along with a song
Spring is waiting
Below
Bist Du wieder wach
The snow

(c) Stefan Hagen

Memories of Swiss Summer (Dreamy Winter Variation)

Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us. This nursery rhyme (Kinderreim) is dedicated to my beloved children Charlotte, Johanna, Eléna, Sophia, Jakob, Paula, Anton, and Julius for singing with me these words in breathless tempo, and Anna and Paul I would have loved to sing it for.

Lyrics (Kinderreim):
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Mond die Mitte Donner frei samt Sonne
Ja haha

(c) (p) 2019 Stefan hagen

Kinderreim

Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us.

The Badger Dreams of the Swiss Summer

Look at this Thing

Look at This Thing

Dance to the Echoes of Thunder

Cave Song for Dragons and Mice

Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us. 

Lyrics (Summon the Spring):
Spring Frühling Spring Frühling 
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring

Spring Frühling Spring Frühling 
Spring Frühling Spring Frühling 

Spring Frühling Spring Frühling 
Spring Frühling Spring Frühling 
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring
Spring Spring Spring

(c) (p) 2019 Stefan Hagen

Summon the Spring

Singings in the Gorge

Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us. 

Lyrics (We Live and Die in Shadows):
Das Ende bringt Licht
Fürchte Dich nicht
Don't be afraid
We all will be dead
Das Ende bringt Licht
We wanna know when
Weshalb ist egal
Who wants to know why?
Ah it's so blue
Look at that sky
Sleep well
Bye bye
Fürchte Dich nicht
Das Ende bringt Licht
Nur wann wissen wir nicht
Weshalb ist egal
Schau wie grün es ist
Dieses Tal
Schlaf' schön
Nacht
Das Ende bringt Licht

(c) (p) 2019 Stefan Hagen

We Live and Die in Shadows

Chant off for Light and Thunder

This is not Africa

This is Not Africa

Life on Planet Gafsharpg

Ludovic Explains Tchoukball

Light shadows, musical echoes, in and around us. 

Lyrics (Prelude):
Spring spring spring
Spring spring spring
Spring spring spring
Spring spring spring
Spring spring spring

Spring Frühling
Spring Frühling

(c) (p) 2019 Stefan Hagen

Prelude

An ode to the people that live in Vienna from Simmering to Landstraße

Credits:
Courtney for a good time with baklava, coffee, tea and a walk in Vienna Simmering, before her amazing gig, the team of Café Albrecht in Simmering for air drumming and a wonderful Verlängerter, to Christa, who was planned to become Dagmar, but short before Christmas plans changed long ago, to the Wiener Linien for operating the wonderful tram and subway lines, to the harsh and stony district Landstraße that makes even the Danube Canal appear industrial and finally to my dancing wild love of life, Dagmar.

Visiting Vienna (From Coffee in Simmering to the Danube Canal)

Lucerne Bourreé (Suite in E Minor for Lute, BWV 996: V. Bourreé)
Recorded Live, 6.April 2019 at Phonica Lab Studio in Lucerne, Switzerland
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Guitar: Stefan Hagen
Microphones, Recording & Mixing: Davide Mistretta (phonicalab@gmail.com) at Phonica Lab, Lucerne, Switzerland
Guitar(Instrument): Aria, 1987

Thank you: Renate Zinz, born Trautwein (Birthday Edition for Sonne)

Lucerne Bourreé

Lucerne Bourreé (Suite in E Minor for Lute, BWV 996: V. Bourreé)

Recorded & Mixed, 26.January 2020 at The House in the Clouds, Emmetten, Switzerland
Music: Stefan Hagen
Piano & Bass: Stefan Hagen

Thank you: Ruby Jean Rose (Over the Clouds Edition for 2020)

Sleep Does Not Want Me Any More

Grew into life in the Sixties of the previous century close to Bonn, Germany. Plays concert guitar for more than forty years and explores vocal, guitar and electronic music on a mountain in a house in the clouds in Central Switzerland. Still alive. Taking his time to grow out of life, slowly, real slow ...
Breathe in, breathe out, heartbeat, breathe in ...

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