Episode 277
The man who has been living in the floor under me for several months is a flute player. Unfortunately not too good. The neighbor makes up for what his quality plays missed with volume. He would have understood well with the lady in the early Herbert Grönemeyer song “Music only when she is loud”, but at least she didn’t play a flute.
I recently tore the thread of patience. I was sitting in front of the television and tried the film “The bombing of Maiori”
However, it had to be seen that there was nothing to be heard from all of the bombing tones in the film because the deflected flute played everything. So I had a floor down and rang the doorbell. When the neighbor, the flute in my hand, opened the door, I asked him politely to dim his game. If I did not comply, I jokingly added, unfortunately I have to make it the subject of my next pop diary.
The next topic of the pop diary
A pop diary, Soso, that is interesting, said the man. And should he become the subject of an entry? Only if he continues to play with such Aplomb, I varied. The man thought. “And how would you build the text?” Well, I answered the answer, I would get in with his loud game, then tore our door conversation and finally pass to particularly blatant cases of flute play in pop music.
“Ah, ‘Locomotive Breath’ and such …”, he nodded thoughtfully. “Something like that, yes,” I replied. He didn’t want to talk me into my work, the man said after further thinking, but of course there are far more interesting topics. “Oh, which one?” I asked curiously. For example, I can write that musicians biopics are always boring, he suggested. While I was still checking his thesis, he added that the text must result in knowledge that the non -contestability of music was the most emphatic evidence of the singular power of this art form.
“I don’t know,” I said. “No problem,” said the flute. “Then maybe a text that pop and politics have exchanged roles.” Politics, my counterpart explained that today was bright and glaring, constantly on refrain -like slogans and spells. Finally, in “populism” the word “pop” is already in it. Singing Söder, Dancer Trump and such. Pop, on the other hand, has become terribly serious and moral and increases the content over the form. “I don’t know if I find access to it,” I admitted. That doesn’t matter, he defended.
“How about an entry that finally answered all the big questions of pop music bundled: If Sahra Wagenknecht were a yacht rock band, which one would that be? Was ‘Magic’ the last good Springsteen album? Why do you constantly see photos of pop stars on social media that take the oh so down -to -earth track? Are there good songs by Barclay James Harvest? “
My head buzzed. To put an end to the conversation, I log that a pot on the stove requires my return. “Just one more question,” I said: “What flute do you actually play?” The neighbor radiates his instrument with a beam. “A Shakuhachi flute, a Japanese bamboo flute with five handle holes,
It is often used in meditation music. “
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We said goodbye and I went up. Once there, I chopped “Shakuhachi im Pop” in the search engine and found that a Shakuhachi can be heard in Linkin Park’s song “Nobody’s Listening”. It is played by the multi-instrumentalist and stand-up comedian (!) David Zasloff. Born in the Bronx, he composed his first song at the age of four. In 2017 he contributed the music to the film “Dracula in A Women’s Prison”.
I looked up from my computer. A biopic about the life of this man – it would not contain boredom.