visions
| Visions on Alphaville´s music
by Alphaville, from various sources: First Harvest 1984-92 (compilation album 1992) Quotes from the booklet ´Big in Japan´ (´Forever Young´ album 1984) "Making music is one thing... but the other things around it, they are really, really strange. Absolutely the opposite of real life." Bernhard ´Sounds Like A Melody´ (´Forever Young´ album 1984) "I think we´re more film-makers - and Alphaville is the shooting location for our music" Echolette ´Sensations´ (´Afternoons In Utopia´ album 1986) "Sometimes people used to say "have they gone crazy now ? Talking with dolphins and all that!!" But I think that once we´ve learned the language of the dolphins - this mutual approach - that could be the moment of significant change in our messed up civilization" Marian ´Mysteries Of Love´ (´The Breathtaking Blue´ album 1989) "Mysteries´ deals with one of these impossible dreams. The end of the iron curtain. Originally we planned to release the single with a photo of a piece of wall graffiti. But when the wall really came down and the dust slowly settled. the piece of wall had vanished from our single cover too. Only a man was there, smoking his pipe in an aguarium. strange, isn´t it?" Bernhard ´Lassie Come Home´ (´Afternoons In Utopia´ album 1986) "Lassie is something like an archetype of the lost. Her symbolic power always had some kind of comfort for me in this lost world" Marian ´Jerusalem´ (´Afternoons In Utopia´ album 1986) "One day we were given the sketch for a theatre play, for which we were supposed to write the soundtrack. It´s the story of a man, who at night convince lonely passers-by on brooklyn bridge to commit suicide. He offers them as human sacrifices for his lover, who years ago - because of him - commited suicide at the same location. In his frenzy he turns her into Eris, the goddess of revenge. Due to time problems, we were unable to pursue this project. But it was in that time, that ´Jerusalem´ came to life. any questions...?" Echolette ´Dance with Me´ (´Afternoons In Utopia´ album 1986) "The museum of natural history at central park plays home to a huge, ancient asteroid, actually a splendid setting to meet with your lover. I would think" Marian ´For A Million´ (´The Breathtaking Blue´ album 1989) "Every time I hear the instrumental part at the end, two specific pictures come to my mind which I once found in an old photo-album: a blonde nazi-boy and two galloping giraffes" Marian ´Victory Of Love´ (´Forever Young´ album 1984) "Perhaps all our songs are windows in an ivory tower that is surrounded by a changing world. everywhere you turn there is another view but always from the same building" Bernhard ´The Jet Set´ (´Forever Young´ album 1984) "We didn´t intend to write a proper song; it was suppose to be some kind of jingle that advertises things money can´t buy: anarchy, freedom, love, fun and a piece of the end of the world" Marian ´Red Rose´ (´Afternoons In Utopia´ album 1986) "This one is for John Lily, Aleister Crowley and the fallen angels" Echolette ´Summer Rain´ (´The Breathtaking Blue´ album 1989) "you should let yourself be guided by what the song has to tell you" Bernhard ´Forever Young´(´Forever Young´ album 1984) "probably you´ve only really grown up, when you can bear not being understood" Marian |