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Andreas Vollenweider - Treasures of the Archives – Part 30 

 

🎵Treasures of the Archives – Part 30: 

 

Memories of

 

✨"Come to the quiet place" | Zurich, 2020✨

 

 

"October 2020.

 

A date of global significance.

 

We had just released our album ‚Quiet Places‘ and my first novel ‚Im Spiegel der Venus‘, when the coronavirus struck.

 

Fortunately, we managed to give a private concert for a small audience at the Millers Studio in Zurich, Switzerland, only days before the lockdown, and were still able to celebrate both releases.

 

‚Come to the Quiet Place‘ is from the album of (almost) the same name.

 

I must confess, at that time, I was going through a somewhat floating phase.

 

That probably has to do with my age as well — after all, I am a grandfather…

 

I had already begun some time earlier to enjoy this sense of floating; the music still has some kind of form, but it is a drifting one, like the waves of the sea that surge toward you only to withdraw again.

 

This piece is also a good example of how we make music: there are structural elements, but we remain completely open in how — or if — we shape them.

 

Unexpected elements may appear — and disappear again.

 

We call this ‚thematic improvisation‘.

 

You could say it is something like the secret formula behind our music…" – Andreas

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Andreas Vollenweider - Treasures of the Archives – Part 31

 

🎵Treasures of the Archives – Part 31: 

 

Memories of

 

✨“Angoh!“ | Bonn, Germany, 2022✨

 

 

"June 5, 2022, Bonn, Germany.

 

The Covid crisis had passed, and we were finally able to perform larger concerts again — what immense joy.

 

There are moments when you feel, to your very core, what deeper purpose you have, and you are lifted up and carried into an indescribable flight.

 

The boundaries between audience and musicians dissolve into a wonderful sense of unity.

 

What could be more beautiful…“ – Andreas

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Andreas Vollenweider - Treasures of the Archives – Part 32

 

🎵Treasures of the Archives – Part 32: 

 

Memories of

 

✨Father & Son Improvising | Zurich, Switzerland, 1979✨

 

 

"Through the many hours of improvising together with my father, it became self-evident to me at a very early age that music is a language through which one can express the truly important things that lie deep within our soul.

 

There was a time, however, when I would have much preferred to go fishing with my father, or cycling, or simply do all the things other children did with their dads.

 

But he was so profoundly immersed in music that, quite simply, nothing else existed.

 

If you wanted to have a relationship with him, you had to make music with him.

 

And so it was in music that we grew close—perhaps in a way we would never otherwise have experienced.

Victor Hugo, the French poet, expressed it like this: ‚Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.‘
 

 

The recordings for this short video were made in 1979.

 

We were playing in the Grossmünster in Zurich, on the organ that my father had once designed and on which he played until the end of his life.

 

It was also there that we recorded our only album together, ‚Traumgarten (Garden of Dreams)‘.

 

The artwork for the album was created by my grandfather — so in a way, it’s a bit of a family album.“ – Andreas