Traces
Songs of intrinsic value
1 Party
Sometimes you see posters with the letters “Ü 30” in the streets. These are to invite folks in the prime of life (over 30) to a dancing night with music of their time – I tried to take it one step further…
2 Juvenile
My colleague Katja told me one day that her seven-year-old daughter stood in front of the mirror rolling her t-shirt up the belly and said: “Now, I’m a juvenile” – another try to take it one step further…
3 Do Something, Mama
My daughter wanted to make a trip to Breda /Netherlands to see if it’s a good place to study. We joined her but my outfit didn’t please her – so she thought it was embarrassing…
4 Woken Up
Maybe the song sounds more melancholic than it was meant to be. This song was written in an open D Minor tuning…
5 So Close
A new love song to express hopeful expectations
6 Enjoy
Shared burden means half the burden – therefore the advice to share it to make it easier to bear it
7 Daydream
This is an attempt to imagine a situation which makes it hard for you to think clearly
8 Let Go
Another love song with an unmistakable call
9 Eight great loves
A song for the lovely journalist, cosmopolitan, artist in life and love, who in his final years was as a colleague of mine and an important adviser at the same time. It was his house that I gave my first real house concert in. His advice that everybody should allow themselves eight great loves should never be forgotten.
10 Intensive
A reflection about how a real love can make you go beyond your boundaries
11 Picking Up Trails
In the summer of 2006 I met my old friend Alex. The last time I saw him was at school, more than 35 years ago. Now he and his wife Elinor and their friend Dagmar run the Sunnyvue Farm in Ailsa Creek/ Ontario, Canada, producing ecological food. More than three decades after we last met we talked a lot about absent friends who both of us could still remember. A few months later I wrote this song about friends I knew in the Sixties and Seventies thinking about what happened to them. In the first version the lyrics had been half as long, but became more and more. Sorry friends, I might have forgotten some names.
12 She Within Her
In this song I tried to mix certain memories and perceptions about the sometimes delicate relationship between mothers and their long since grown up daughters…
13 Domina
Early in 2005 the German armed forces made headlines because instructors at certain locations that I mentioned in this song did their own sort of drill to prepare their soldiers for an anti-terrorist-war – and I thought it would be good to take it one step further
14 Passing Outside
Early in 2004 to 2005 our corner shop closed. Winnie and Siegfried Aussen (I tried a play on words with their last name which means “outside”), who provided the neighbourhood with everything for decades, retired. Everybody passing their former shop now, realizes that something is missing… and the tram doesn’t turn around anymore - it just ends in a dead-end final station.
15 Clear Direction
I don’t want to say anything against superiors in general (I was one of them before). They try hard to leave their mark and follow a red line but sometimes they stagger more than they realize…
16 Sorry
Another song from the chapter “experience from the world of employment”, which I have the chance to make due to my job. This song is about “loyalty”. Some superiors consider it the most important virtue and expect or even demand loyalty of their subordinates in thankless “sandwich-positions”. But what if a superior doesn’t deserve loyalty because of his bad deed so his subordinate has to betray him to head off damage from the company…
17 Who Benefits From This?
Sometimes it’s a useful question if you are not clear about the sense of what you’re doing...
18 So Good
When driving through Canada or the USA you often see national flags flapping in front of people’s houses. An easygoing confession of national values doesn’t necessarily have to be wrong, however if it is combined with an unshakable national pride that keeps people from tackling weaknesses and mistakes, it’s no fun any more. Then it’s just “so good” to belong to the chosen people.
 19 Miracle
First there was an open tuning, then a sequence of chords and finally a question that fitted one line– and this lead to the lyrics.
20 Over
When expectations are not fulfilled and  hopes are disappointed, it can be over before it really started…
21 Just Turn Around
Experience of life, recalled and described in a situation. Maybe you have found yourself in a similar one…

lots of love for Suva Schachner for her translation and interpretation 


Gerd Schinkel sings his own songs 
in his own German langage  

CDs for grown ups:

Gerd Schinkel singt auf deutsch eigene Lieder  

CDs für Erwachsene:

Es gibt CDs mit Liedern für Erwachsene in quasi chronologischer Zusammenstellung (drei vorwiegend aus dem vorigen Jahrtausend), eine CD mit meinen besten Liedern aus dem vorigen Jahrtausend und - als besondere Zusammenstellung - einen Viererpack mit meinen besten Liedern.

00 - "Nix dagegen" - eigen(sinnig)e Lieder

01 - „Nicht als Eigentum" - eigen(artig)e Lieder

02 - „Stück des Wegs" - eigen(willig)e Lieder

03 - „So gesehen" - eigen(mächtig)e Lieder

04 - „Weit und offen“  - eigen(ständig)e Lieder  

05 - "Draufgänger" - eigen(händig)e Lieder

06 - "Unentdeckt" - eigen(tümlich)e Lieder

07 - "Du bist schuld" - eigen(wüchsig)e Lieder

08 - "Spuren" - eigen(wertig)e Lieder

09 - "Ausgeliefert" - eigen(nützig)e Lieder

10 - "Bestes Stück" - eigen(brötlerisch)e Lieder

11 - "So ist gut" - eigen(verantwortlich)e Lieder

12 - "Im Handumdrehn" - eigen(süchtig)e Lieder

13 - "Na klar" - eigen(gesetzlich)e Lieder

14 - "Geh ma weg" - eigen(formatig)e Lieder

15 - "Muss was passiern" - eigen(gewächsig)e L.

16 - "Was denn sonst" - eigen(förmig)e Lieder

sowie die besten eigenen aus dem vorigen Jahrtausend :

- "Sternschnuppen" - 

CDs in besonderer Zusammenstellung:

- "DIE BOX: gnadenlos anachronistisch - aber nicht hoffnungslos"  enthält meine mutmaßlich besten Lieder:
             - DIESE
             - AUCH DIESE
             - AUCH NOCH DIESE
             - WOHL AUCH NOCH DIESE
             - Dann wohl auch noch diese

- "Schicksalsglück" - CD mit 19 Liedern zu meinem  Buch :   „Bin ich ihr ähnlich?" 
             - Adoptivtochter auf Spurensuche in Korea“ -
             erschienen Dez. 2005 bei Books on Demand,
             Norderstedt, ISBN 3-8334-33915-7, 260 S., 14.90 €
             Buch ist im Handel und bei mir erhältlich, CD nur bei mir

"- "1-fach" Beispielsweisen 
             vorzugsweise auszugsweise 

- "4-fach" Beispielsweisen 
             vorzugsweise scheibchenweise
             als 4er Box angelegt, aber auch jede CD einzeln 
             ( erschienen 2003, thematisch sortiert mit meinen bis 
             dahin geschriebenen besten Liedern):

- „Gegenseitig geschenkt“
     „Beziehungsweisen“ schönste Liebeslieder
- „Woher – wohin“ – 
            „Betrachtungsweisen“ beste Lebenslieder
- „Nichts ist ideal“ – 
            „Sichtweisen“ trotzigste Trotzlieder 
- „Papa backt“ – 
            „Singweisen“ aus der Kinderwelt   

Es gibt fünf CDs mit eigenen Liedern für Kindern in altersentsprechender Zusammenstellung sowie zwei CDs mit den besten Kinderliedern (einmal laut, einmal leise):

CDs für Kinder:

- "Igitt! Da drin sind Zwiebeln" - für Vorschulkinder

- "Ich bin groß" - zur Einschulung       

- "Papa repariert" - für "frische" Grundschulkinder

- "Der geklaute Gameboy" - für erfahrene Grundschulkinder 

- "Mama, mach Mam'lade" - für große Grundschulkinder

sowie als "beste" Kinderlieder:

- "Aufräum'"   (laut genug)

- "Mach die Tür zu" (leise)

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erhältlich (aber auch nicht im Handel!):
  • Bei Interesse an diesem und jenem fragt nach über info@gerdschinkel.de

    Ich gebe mir alle Mühe, den Wünschen gerecht zu werden

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