Schwabing Affairs
Delicate Tunes From Swinging Munich Movies Of The 1960s and 70s
DIG012 CD
DIG012 LP
release date, Germany: 7th of june 2004
The success of our compilation
St. Pauli Affairs, which showed the broad spectrum of the
Kiez-Beats, is now followed by the musical reflexion of this German movie
phenomenon:
In the mid-60s one of Munich’s districts becomes the focus of attention:
Schwabing - as the centre of life and as a location for movies in which
hippies, loafers, beatniks and artists or simply people who know how to
make the best of life, are to play the leading role. Life is different
between Siegestor (arc of triumph) and Münchner Freiheit (always
crowded crossing in Schwabing) to the life people live in the rest of town
or even the rest of the Federal Republic. The English garden is abuzz with
hippies, the fashionable bars on Leopoldstreet are a meeting-point
for artists, musicians and actors. Munich holds a position in Europe,
which is only comparable to the one of London and Amsterdam. Film-makers
from all over Germany move to Munich and emphasize through their young
matters and fresh ideas, how exiting and at the same time relaxed life is
in Schwabing.
Young composers from abroad are called to
come over and they put on authentic scores. David Llywelyn, founding
member of Supertramp, creates psychedelic sounds with the later
stars in a band called The Joint. Until now the present recordings
were believed to have gone missing. Johnny Harris who scores for
mainstream movies in Hollywood today has started his career in Munich with
swinging Groove-Jazz for a comedy with Uschi Glas and Harald Leipnitz. A
German Band who skilfully combines different styles of music, as for
instance beat and pop, was Improved Sound Ltd., discovered by the
director Michael Verhoeven. And established composers such as Martin
Böttcher and Peter Thomas, who provides the space-funk music as a
background to murder of a hippie in the police-inspector series Der
Kommissar - Der
Papierblumenmörder, are equally versatile. |
