It's been my new year's resolution for 2011 to spend more time making/recording/mixing music. To force myself into doing so, I decided
to put up this page and post one song I recorded every tuesday.
After eight months I couldn't go on with this. Having a stressful job and a family leaves not enough room to post on a weekly basis.
But I will continue posting songs every once in a while. If you don't want to miss a song, you can follow me on
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Since 2021 I'm part of a band again, Fahmi Friedrich Widmann, check our LinkTree page to see what we're up to.
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It's Raining - Kai Widmann: vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, jaw harp, bass / Holger Geißler: electric guitar / Ecki Willer: drums
Worlds Blue Innocent - Kai Widmann: vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, accordion / Holger Geißler - electric guitar / Ecki Willer: drums
recorded in July 1990, mixed 11th and 12th July 2011
It's Raining - music by Jura Kojetinsky and Kai Widman, lyrics by Jura Kojetinsky
Worlds Blue Innocent - music and lyrics by André Richter, Kai Widmann and Jura Kojetinsky
original mixes released on Die kaputten GØTTER - Spuren der GØTTER (1990)
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar, hammond
recorded 4th and 5th July 2011
music and lyrics by Leonard Cohen
originally released on Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
Kai Widmann: vocals, bass, glockenspiel / Holger Geißler: electric guitar / Martin Heike: acoustic guitar / Ecki Willer: drums, accordion
recorded in July 1990, mixed 1st July 2011
music and lyrics by Holger Geißler
original mix released on Die kaputten GØTTER - Spuren der GØTTER (1990)
What a nice feeling I'm having listening to this song. Nevertheless if the lyrics is not "perfect English" since the feeling is far more important than that. ;)
Uah, good to remember :)
Great mix! Thanks.
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar, recorder
recorded 28 January 2002 and 23 June 2011, mixed 23 June 2011
written by Emily Sailers
originally released on Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
Kai Widmann: vocals, guitar, melodica
recorded 2006
written by Willie Nelson
originally released on Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie (1973)
Cake's great cover version originally released on Cake - Fashion Nugget (1996)
Another smelly song (see Claudia, week 22). This time it would be grass and charcoal. That's hard to beat in terms of coolness.
Comments
Mac - 18 July 2011, 15:05:29
Hello there!
What should I say on this very special celebration?
It would be impossible to imagine that in 12th July 1986 I was 11 years old and somewhere in Europe 3 friends had a meeting that would change my life forever.
Without that meeting I would never have met Kai and would not have visited Germany so often.
I wouldn't have had my beloved songs as my life's soundtrack and I really can't imagine my life without "Mental Vibration, Heyday!, Never again, This is my day, Now, Just a World, Prison, Sea of Dryness and a lot more"
Each song had a special moment to turn itself into a lifetime memory like "HEYDAY!" which I used to play every Saturday morning to celebrate my happiness to start a weekend and also my darkest moments as when I knew that my mom had cancer and had to fight for her life. Back then I was listening to Prison when I got the bad news and it supported me on my depression and, unexpectedly, made me stronger reliving my tension - mom is great and cured.
Grow had really something Special not only for me but for my friends. Once we (Flúvio and I) drove from Brasilia to São Paulo for 12 hours and then 12 hours driving back and the top HIT was Grow's CD. I still remember us listening and singing most of the songs billions of times. That happened in 1996 I guess. I didn't know Kai or Handrin back then but their work/fun was already part of some people's life in South America.
Following the timeline, "Never Again" was love theme for some friends who never had the chance to see any "Nonny" but was deeply in love for some girl listening to their hits.
Thanks to this special date I visited Kai and we became friends. Our friendship only brought me good things, good laughs, good emotions with music and motivated me to learn guitar which ended up in a formation of another band in Brazil called Walk. I wrote songs which was somehow unbelievable for me and I am now in a process of finishing new songs to record a CD - just for fun.
Thanks to Die Kaputten GØTTER I met Andreas - I wouldn't have visited Kai in Frankfurt in 1999 and I would never have met Andreas who is my business partner and also a friend who is more than family and Andreas would never have moved to Brazil in 2004 and it is idle to suppose that all that could happen without the meeting that 3 friends had in Denmark back in 12th July 1986.
Thanks to that day my life was twisted for better.
Thank you very much is the least I can say.
I love you guys!
Mac
Ecki - 31 August 2011, 19:39:38
Hi Kai and tuesday-listeners,
after many many tuesday songs - thanks for all your work with that! Now and then I'm downloading one; incredible how you manage all this beneath a completely normal i.e. time-consuming family- and work-life. Hope you get enogh sleep!
Although 'only' a gøtter-drummer for 1 year or so, the band was for my music-"career" (which did not lead so far, but at least I'm still drumming) something like the first love ... had one of my best times, ever. I'd love to meet you all again some day ... preferably at "Maria", but I guess she's out of the business!?
Mac, I dont know you, but thanks for your warm and heartfelt story!
Ecki
p.s.
Kai, the götter-songs are playable all right, but the download-links don't work (today)?
Kai - 02 September 2011, 11:52:14
Hey Ecki,
meeting you all again would indeed be great!
Download links are working now.
Cheers
Kai