Halloween is back, and with it "the ship of mystery"...

Blogalaxia Tags: Dirndl , Lederhosen , Yuki + Nagato , Palenque , Extraterrestrial

Really, if last year I was surprised to find the articles for Halloween at the beginning of September, this year the thing is getting more intriguing, as already from beginnings of August the first orange-coloured objects appeared in the "Real" next to house (previously Wallmart). I suppose that with the strange summer (indeed disturbing and mysterious) that we have had, the esoteric thing has been advanced.

Although many of my (male) readers, and perhaps some (female) reader (there is plenty of all in the vineyard of the Lord) would had preferred that I dedicated a post to the Minidirndl, I leave this for further posts (it's always an useful resource to rise the audience). I will neither speak about the last news in male traditional mode, that is not another thing that a new model of "Lederhosen" (typical pants of shoulder straps) that includes a mobile "free hands" of the latest generation, which has been presented recently in the CEBIT, the greatest fair of new technologies in the world, that is celebrated in Hannover. It is certainly curious that this takes place in a country where still you can found Walkmans in any department store, and even cleaning tapes for Radiocasettes (for those who don't know it, the Walkman is a primitive version of the pre-diluvian Diskman, that would come to be something seemed to the old one MP3 that still is used by some elders in Spain -I refer to the MP3, of course, the others are simply extint species in the Iberian Peninsula). Anyway, the mobile hands-free inserted in the Lederhosen is really practical: in the Oktoberfest, for example, often both hands are busy with big beer jugs, in those cases, a sudden call can be a true problem. Facing this terrible handicap, the German creative genius has found the solution!! I must say, nevertheless, that this invention still lacks to be transferred to the Dirndl (typical Bavarian dress for women), which offers some frankly interesting possibilities, depending on where they decide to place the little buttons...

Hey, baby, may I make a call?

Oh! what dared...





mmm, well, OK...

Will this be this the new way to flirt?

To whom it may concern, the Lederhosen are of the brand Lodenfrey aus Bayern(http://www.lodenfrey.de/),and the Dirndl from Moschen Bayern (http://www.moschen-bayern.de/).

However, as I already said, it was not about "Trachtenmode" what I wanted to speak today, but about extraterrestrials, and specifically about the famous "spaceman" of Palenque (falsely described by some historians as The Warrior of Palenque).



As I have extended too much with foolishness, and now I have things that to do, for the time I leave you with these two images for meditation. To the left, the engraving of the Mayan tomb of the spaceman, and to the right, a trustworthy interpretation, based exclusively on archaeological and scientific criteria, without being influenced from the (at the time it was done) recent images of the arrival of the man to the moon.

PANTA REI: Everything changes, even the ZDF..

Blogalaxia Tags: Dirndl,Heraclitus,Mikuru + chan,Volksmusik,Music

In the same river we enter and we do not enter, therefore we are and we are not [the same]

Heraclitus

My self-sacrificing readers, please do not think that I am becoming transcendent, although the times we are living oblige us to redefine old dilemmas on the own existence of the matter and the universe, and still of the same things. When all is said and done, that all be result of a phenomenal noumen, as would say Kant. The question is that the comment of ours appreciated Lord Lowis, in which he indicated me a video from You Tube on Volksmusik, I have engaged me to investigate a little in the funds (low) of that site to try to locate some interesting examples for the personal enrichment of my readers. The video itself comes from the already extinct program "Lustige Musikanten", the one I told about in my previous entrance. It is a somewhat old video, but includes one of the greatest figures of the "Jodel", Franzl Lang, known as the "Jodelkönig", the king of the Jodel.



Curiously, until recently it seemed that such kind of things were not going to change. Thus, in the following video you can appreciate the vitality that still had the couple in one of their last actions in the ZDF. WITHOUT doubt the poor one Michael did not imagine that a few months later his good woman Marianne would have to be hospitalized after suffering an anxiety attack upon finishing their last show, after more than 14 years in antenna and 116 programs ...

(ocus.de/panorama/boulevard/marianne-und-michael_aid_69593.html )http://www.focus.de/panorama/boulevard/marianne-und-michael_aid_69593.html



But we leave appart this theme, otherwise we will get too nostalgic, and we face now toward the future. In a previous entrance I told you about the figure of Hansy Vogt and the Feldberger. I have not been able to find any performance from the Feldberger in Youtube, but at least I have found this, that will allow you to appreciate its facets of "showman", presenter and "good son-in-law" of all the SüdWest.



He is such a good boy! He is the grandson that would like to have all the grandmothers!

Fortunately, there are several YouTube videos of the Ursprung Buam. In this case, showing that in spite of their fame and their good appearance, the boys do not seem to have so much success with the girls as would be expected...

And to finish, a small jewel: the Wildecker Herzbuben singing one of their successes, already some years ago. I must say that they are not among my favorites (they are too soft...) but they are so affectionate, with that aspect of David the Gnome!! Do not you doubt in visiting its web page, the introductory video is really impressive:
http://www.beepworld.de/members58/wildecker-herzbuben/



PLEASE DON'T GO, THERE IS EVEN MORE!

An amusing action of Marianne & Michael in a Christmas special, along with the Hoffmann sisters, and the nice Herzbuben disguised of Santa Claus (it fits them very well!)....

About the Hofmann sisters I prefer not to speak, because as many other singers of Schlager they are contributing to the destruction of the Volksmusik, aside from having among their "merchandaising" a collection of jewels that is absolutely tasteless:
()http://www.geschwister-hofmann.de/centixframe/de/schmuckdesign.html









Image to scale 1:10. The original slopes, of plastic of high purity, measure approximately 10cm of diameter.

As soon as I learn how to hang my own videos, I expect to be able to delight my readers with the report about the big final of the "Grand Prix of the Volksmusik", that was this Saturday. I must advance that it was somewhat dull compared with that of last year. Firstly, because the presenter (Marc Pircher) was not so good as their predecessors (casually Marianne und Michael), and in second place because among the finalists only a few showed a great talent, and TOO MANY were inded "Schlager ... " Although the winners (Sigrid & Marine mit Zillertaler Haderlumpen ) were not my favorites, I must admit that their music was happy and their "Minidirndl" without doubt helped to make it "happier", particularly for the male audience...

Some pretty examples of Minidirndl. More information and orders in:

http://www.best-of-stockerpoint.de/MINIDIRNDL_c33_sidae3fba72f9301cc03bd92c6213d8e98c_x1.htm

(it is clear that I do not have commission, but if you say that you come from my part perhaps you can get a discount)...

Ursprung-buam: The boys of the Origin, or perhaps I should say the primordials...

Blogalaxia Tags:music,folklore,Austria,rumba,Los + Chichos,Cañita + Brava

It was a night of grief and of crying

Since all conducted to the failure

they went the cousins and the brothers

they were going to burglarize and they were betrayed...

--

As many, not myself, would like to forget, in this way began one of the classic works of Los Chichos, The History of Juan Castillo (and of the informer that went to "pucabar", do not ask what that means, as I did not passed the level A1 of the gipsy language). For the unfortunate readers that have not yet listened this "happy melody", here comes a video I found in You Tube, courtesy of IbizaLibre, that besides has included some harmonious simplified for guitar, that this very day I am going to practice: La, Sol, Fa#. and then the same thing in fifth Si (in 7º fret), La (5º fret), Sol (3 fret) Fa#. thus a little pa not to bundle us a lot.

The very thing is that I did not want to talk about Los Chichos , but about a cousin and two brothers that, instead of breaking the law, they decided to be dedicated to the music, like they the patriarchs of the flamenco-pop did before. It is a matter of the Ursprung Buam, an Austrian group, of the Tyrol for more signs (of the Zillertal for the ones willing to know their roots and source of inspiration). I tried to find this group (whose name until today I did not know) since I saw them shortly in the Grand Prix of the Volksmusik, but was not capable. Today, at last, I saw its unmistakable appearances in the cover sheet of a disk and I had no option appart from buying a copy (although I had to comply with me a discount "mix", as theoir CDs are highly quoted, around 18 Euro). In this mix for 9 euro you can enjoy 39 songs, but reduced to a short statement of a minute of duration. Their name, in boarischn (dialect of the Austrian Tyrol and South of Bavaria), would mean something like the boys of the origin * and they show a great talent interpreting happy melodies to the violin, accordion and bass, sometimes with a kind of harp. In spite of being a young group, they have several fanclubs (one of them settled in Freiburg, of which I am from now on its very first founder) and web pages dedicated to them, some with an unexpectedly trashmetal background music, that I am not sure whether belongs to the group ... (to see for example). http://conspirat.com/ursprungbuam/ So that you can appreciate their art, I leave you with a jewel of 21 minutes, in which their humorous and amusing mood can be appreciated.

Please press in the image to listen the sample "musical"

Curiously, the violinist Martin (the most forged one of the three, but also the nicest one), has certain similarities, so much in the appearance as in the voice, with the already mythical Cañita Brava, that versatile Spanish artist that became an usual guest of the affectionate program "El Semáforo" (the traffic light)... how good television was done then!!

And don't forget to buy a CD of the Ursprung Buam (or if you download it from e-mule at least divulge the good new one, as did Saulo of Tarsus in his day, after getting blind in the desert of Damascus, not very far from where the crazy Arab Abdul Al Hazred was devoured centuries later by an invisible entity).

For more information, as well as to the address to rent their apartment for holidays (an usual practice among the artists of the Volksmusik), do not hesitate to visit their web page:

http://www.ursprungbuam.com/

*I must say that Ursprung would also be able to be translated for "spring". At first sight, "The Shepherds of the spring" may seem a more logical name for a folk group, but this working hypothesis is ruled out automatically after looking at the musicians in any cover sheet of their disks.

De Re Rustica

Blogalaxia Tags:music,folklore,Germany,ribeiro,mushrooms

My appreciated readers, after a long summer of lethargy, my fungal mind has awoke with the autumnal rains that by these hearths coincide with the Sommer Schluss Verkauf, that is to say the discounts of end of the summer. Although it is used to rain and abundantly in July, August is more fresh and therefore more favorable to the development of the hifas of Yuggoth that compose my neural network. After these excuses of lazy, I wanted to deal with a topic that really makes me restless, and that many readers will have guessed upon reading the title of this entrance. Really, what avoids me to sleep, apart from a "cortado" (Spanish coffee speciality: espresso + some drops of milk) that I have taken in the Warsteiner Galerie (a German bar reconverted into "tapas" bar, that I recommend for the good environment and the quality of its dishes, and because besides they have Ribeiro wine!!), said that what makes me restless is the evil use of the television taxes. As many of my avid readers do not know, in Germany, as in other Germanic countries, there is a (forced) tradition to pay the Rundfunkgebühr, a tax charged for watching television and to listen the radio. This tax (that is not little thing, some 18 euro/month for each television set, and 9 for radio, although even so is less than what is used to be charged to keep the luxuries of the Paparazzinger) is destined to finance the television and public radio. The problem is when, suddenly, they decide to eliminate from the programming of the ZDF (the German second public TV) the symbolic program Lustige Musikanten, presented by Marianne and Michael (see photo). This has caused a commotion among the fans of the Volksmusik (basically the ones older than 60 living in remote small towns of the mountains, and myself), that has carried even to be revealed against the system!! Thus, the very same Heino, that comes to be The Palomino but in blonde and that sings, has proposed that we reduce in one Euro our tax payment, in support to the Volksmusik. Even some German grandpa has interposed a complaint in the courts for Missbraucht (badly use) of his taxes.

Fortunately, the state of Baden-Württenberg still respects the quality, and in the programming of the SWR, as much in the radio as in the television, the Volksmusik still keeps the prominence that deserves. Thus for example we have the radio SWR4 (Da sind wir daheim), specialized in Schlager and Volksmusik (sadly more Schlag than Volks..., and I must say that the cover is not good, and one must change of band too often), and in the television the programs dedicated to this musical style are common. Part of this success can be explained due to the charisma and the versatility of one of the largest stars of the badenish "entertainment": the measureless Hansy Vogt. This media supernova, besides heading the already mythical group Die Feldberger, embodies to the affectionate Frau Wäber (a species of german Mrs Rogelia), presents habitually the Sonntags Tour, a marvelous travel throughthe gastronomic, cultural and above all musical Germany, and even dares to perform as ventriloquist, next to the enormous rabbit Félix.

By this order: Frau Wäber, Die Feldberger, Hansy Vogt und Felix (guesses who of the two is the ventriloquist and who the dummy).

Thanks to talents like this, defined by many as a Spassmacher (maker of fun), the Volksmusik still goes one. As a sample of support to so affectionate musical kind, I will dedicate my next deliveries to some of their stars which well deserve it: the Hellwig Sisters, Hansi Hinterseer, Marc Pircher, or surfing on the local market, the Bächlesörfer, some talented musicians from Freiburg with a long experience in the scene, which although are not doing Volksmusik sensu stricto, they are still rather folk...