Name: Johannes Heinen - Witch's Kitchen Dance by Johannes Heinen
Duration: 5 min 27 s
Description: Here is my contribution to the walpurgisnight 2013, the "Witch's Kitchen Dance"! Hope you enjoy!

Super Mix aus rhythmischen und harmonischen Elementen. Fantastic...!

great retro feel! can completely identify with this, lovely stuff Johannes :)

für die Walpurgisnacht bin ich etwas zu spät, aber Deine Musik dafür ist phantastisch!!! :-)

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method: some atonal fun with the plastic midi keyboard on a rainy evening
narration: the poem is quite some decades old - last century, millennium even, and all that. it was quite a different life I led back then. the original title is: "an antenna cast into the open" - this also was the first line when I wrote the poem .... but I skipped it for this version, jettisoning the poem into the imbalance that suits its sonification's atonal qualities. 
image: copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

a fishing rod fishing the water
a probe probing deep space
to welcome that other me
out there - infinty bait

there's a mirror to wait
on you - twin travesty
of being tired and stirred by hoping
weak and strong forces that matter
in watching and running the race

infinity bait

Infinity Bait

DIE INSTRUMENTENBAUER

“Walk this way” Run DMC / Aerosmith
“Block Rockin’ Beats” The Chemical Bros,  
“Configuration” John Coltrane, 
“Mr. Jones” Talking Heads
“Love me do” The Beatles
80-legend loops from GarageBand 
Slide guitar & pentatonic echoed guitar by Roy Roy

Patchwork with My  Clumsy Guitar

Soup Fly Flutterswam

Taken from the upcoming debut full length album (planned to be released mid-2024 - "Rock and Roll Kills").
(p) & (c), 2024.

¡nos vemos pronto! - Outro

Mbane

Only the river shines in the moonlight
And beyond the water an unknown tribe

This people used to care for you, through rain and thunder
And yet we came here to plunder 

Lighting campfires, makes a commotion
Tomorrow we’ll meet and define this space
Who’ll be the ruler of this place,

Inspired by Nikolai Gumilev

Mbane

The melody and chord pattern were dreamed up in 1998, but the song has since undergone a rescue effort in 2024.

The song was originally called "Suzy Suicide," and I must admit it was a serious lyric missfire.  The title was also a little flippant.  I'm a mental health nurse these days, and upon re-visiting this I felt a strong need to change the lyric altogether. It does however still refer to something in a potentially similar vein, in my wanting to stay at least a little close to where the song was originally, with respect being high up, with a potential drop on the cards.  The first line is the only line from the original 1998 lyric.

In any case the original story was about someone leaping from the top of a building, only to change their mind halfway down, but is now about the activities of people like James Kingston, and other free climbers. The new lyric also takes some inspiration from Phillipe Petit in the same regard, thinking about some of the things he said about his harness-free tight rope walk atop the Twin Towers (World Trade Centre), effectively saying that such a passing, due to a fall from the wire, were it to have occurred, would have been a beautiful last moment of life.

In any case the lyric is pulling from those people, I suppose individuals who don't feel their cogs moving unless they're amid rather extreme experiences, without which, I suppose, they don't particularly feel connected to life. Such things turn my stomach, but I suppose, for some people, being on the brink of something like that makes them feel alive.

Anyway, that's what I was shooting at, however, it's quite esoteric, as far as lyrics go, and could easily mean some other odd thing to someone else.

Seems it took me 26 years to finish this one! 🤣

Lyrics

Climbing up the staircase
A few floors left to go
Time to end the chase
Feels like I’m nearly home
When I get to the top
I’ll find some space and time
I’ll step into a portal
Reach the other side

I feel the earth, it’s pull
It’s lure feels stronger than a fire in the cold, yeah
won’t cover too much distance,
if I glide below
If I slipped it might feel like dreaming
And give me some new lifetime
Within a few short seconds
I might feel some kind of lifeline

There’s nothing here inside
No signals just my vital signs of life
Signs I don’t recognise
Nothing is clear behind these darkened eyes
But signs of life below
Some sign of other worlds that I could know
If just inside my mind
Some sign of light to brighten up these eyes
Some sign of life

I didn’t miss the news
But seems I’m none the wiser
It suits my tranquil solitude
The drum of nonsurvivors
They say don’t look down
But that just blunts emotion
I’m petrified but energised
Life could be over, just that notion!

I’m captured by an epic view
my gorgeous guiding spirit
The lights all twinkle down below
Their sparkle so explicit
I feel a surge beneath my feet
A foot forward, but I'm stable
I’m gonna trust the air I feel
I’m slipping free from all my labels

There’s nothing here inside
No signals just my vital signs of life
Signs I don’t recognise
Nothing is clear behind these darkened eyes
But signs of life below
Some sign of other worlds that I could know
If just inside my mind
Some sign of light to brighten up these eyes
Some sign of life

Signs Of Life (1998 / 2024)

Had the pleasure of collaborating with Jussi and Claes on this one.

04/26/2024

Michelle w/Jussi Welin/ Claes Steen

Black Mirror

Here is my contribution to the walpurgisnight 2013, the "Witch's Kitchen Dance"! Hope you enjoy!

Johannes Heinen - Witch's Kitchen Dance

Welcome!

 I'm a composer, pianist and music-teacher.
 
Based on the piano, my music contains a wide range of different styles and genres:
 contemporaryclassical , orchestral, filmmusic, electronicambient, urbanelectro, chillout, jazz/fusion , avantgarde,  free improvisation , etc. I have written music for bands,  theatre, ballet, art-videos, films and features. I am available for original scoring of films, television productions and art-videos. 

 THANK YOU ALL  for listening and posting so many positive comments on my tracks! 
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If you like  to listen to my other projects, please visit :

http://soundcloud.com/ludwig-edel
http://soundcloud.com/interartcorporation
http://soundcloud.com/lorchestre-du-midi
http://soundcloud.com/piano-and-drums
http://soundcloud.com/times-in-presence
http://soundcloud.com/janice-9
http://soundcloud.com/johannes-10
http://soundcloud.com/groups/wave-of-silence


all the best - Johannes Heinen

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