Böhm-Kalpen-Maass

[zaqrack]

I would just like to note, that today I was listening to your CD in the morning. Andi woke up in the middle of "Valley of Unrest" and asked: "What are you listening to, is this Johnny Cash?"

I would take this as a huge compliment

[JTK]

I take it as that, mate!

...there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud!

[JTK]

We were so embarrassed that "Bassquadrat" did not appear on VENITO that in July we entered our soundlounge Studio and recorded Bassquadrat. Yesterday it was released as a single and can be downloaded for free, for example from our homepage: http://www.boehm-kalpen-maass.de/bassquadrat.htm

[zaqrack]

great news! missed this song.

[JTK]

Ooops - didn't I tell you that you can get all songs from mp3.de? How bad.
http://mp3.de/home/boehmkalpenmaass

All news as usual on http://www.boehm-kalpen-maass.de or facebook.

[BonzaiJoe]

JTK, now I want to know: what does "eingegrünt" mean??

I liked the word so much I used it in a text I wrote, without even knowing what it means. Please let it be something dark and mysterious. Thanks.

[zaqrack]

something like: "totally turned to green by the hands of something else"

but perhaps JTK can explain it clearer

[JTK]

Well... that's athing I love about German language. It's very easy to invent words and that word is my invention like most of the words in the "Eingegrünt" lyrics. Eingegrünt could be translated with "intensively turned INTO green". The idea behind the song was a very old factory, not working anymore, built of bricks. Imagine an old, abandoned factory brick house being reconquered by nature, roots, mushrooms, plants slowly but inexorably overgrowing and destroying the building - it becomes eingegrünt.

I love the lyrics (of course, they're mine ) and I tried to arrange the words in a way, that the semantic intense ascends through the verses to climax in the word "Grüüüüüün!" Here the whole lyrics:

EINGEGRÜNT

I.
Eingegrünt
Sporenflug
Algenfall
Flechtenwuchs
Erdenpilz
Gräsertrieb
WURZELSCHLAG

II.
Mauerknoten
Verwittert
Zerpflanzt
Verkrautet
Rindenbraun
Verrankt
Mörtelbruch
Blätterwerk
VERGRÜNT

III.
Wickenwuchs
Vergirscht
Verwittert
Zerkrautet
Verrankt
Schalenkern
Borkenkranz
Unterholz
Knospenbruch
Verrottet
Verwachsen
Verholzt
Mörtelbruch
Verastet
GRÜN!

[BonzaiJoe]

What better person to explain a word than the man who coined it.









...denn wir sind BÖHM-KALPEN-MAASS, und das ist HALB GEMACHT DER SPASS.

[JTK]

halb gemacht der Spaß = handgemachter Spaß

[BonzaiJoe]

Well what do I know...


"Ich spiele Bass! Ach nee, ach was? Alle das ist Gas!"

Shakespeare would be proud 

[JTK]

"Ich spiele Bass! Ach nee, ach was? Alle das ist Gas!"

Ich spiel' den Bass. Ach nee! Ach was! Alter, das ist krass!

[BonzaiJoe]

There is so much potential in this.

[JTK]

 

[BonzaiJoe]

Another great line, from Welthit:

"Jeder Arsch hat eine Nase"

I've always wondered about that one.