FolkWorld #77 03/2022
T😷M's Nachtwache
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Lutz Kerschowski, Östlich der Elbe: Songs und Bilder 1970-2013.
Links Verlag, 2020,
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video clip (produced by Relaxing Blues Music, USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCL8Q28B1z0
www.richardkoechli.ch/en
info@richardkoechli.ch
https://richardkoechli.ch/en/albums/holy-blues-music-album-book
Holy Blues – Richard Koechli
The 400-year trip of a musical soul
(music album incl. book)
What do blues, jazz, soul, R&B, rock'n'roll,
folk, country, rock, pop and hip hop have in
common? Their origin, their fire! Holy Blues
was the source of fire. Holy Blues, also
called Gospel, is the source of all the roots
music we love. The history of gospel music
is 400 years old; its spirit even much older,
and without it we simply would not be able
to be enchanted by soulful music today.
Reason enough to trace this good spirit. Awardwinning
blues musician and author Richard Koechli
(Swiss Blues Award, Swiss Film Music Award,
German Music Edition Award) sets out on an
adventurous trip through American cultural history
and shows with countless concrete examples how
high the influence of faith on the music and its
producers has been throughout the centuries, how decisive and mysterious the divine dimension shapes the
music at every moment. Koechli does this in a double package: as a blues artist with idiosyncratic
interpretations of timeless Holy Blues songs, and as a book author with an inspiring, 150-page history trip.
The book (152 pages) is written in German; the good news: there is a PDF eBook translated into
English for free! (download link in the german book)
Both offer surprises: The book takes a passionate, precise and sometimes new look at the 400-year
journey of our music, and the album shows how independently gospel music can be interpreted without
betraying tradition. Koechli relies on mostly acoustic slide guitar sounds - and contrasts! Sometimes
meditative and without words as in the title track «Holy Blues» or in «Nishlam» (together with the blind
musician friend Gerd Bingemann), then again as a laidback and blues singer as in «Feel Like Going Home»
(in a duet with the renowned jazz singer Bruno Amstad) or even as a courageous acapella singer of littleknown
spiritual hymns - and last but not least even with an idiosyncratic, touching version of perhaps the
only Swiss Holy Blues song, the legendary «Schacher Seppli».
«Holy Blues» is available in music stores (as CD & book) and simultaneously in bookstores (as book &
mp3 download link). From the book content there is also an English translation for free (PDF eBook
download, link in the book).
Downloads:
Music album "Holy Blues" (mp3 320kb/s)
Radio single "Feel Like Going Home" (mp3 320kb/s)
Radio single "Feel Like Going Home" (WAV 16bit)
Digital album cover "Holy Blues" (web)
Video trailer , Video-Clip „Feel Like Going Home“
B ook "Holy Blues" (PDF e-Book for promo, german version)
B ook cover "Holy Blues" (web & print)
P ress photos Richard Koechli (web & print)
Music stores (CD & book): Fontastix 324227, EAN-Code: 7640149284508, www.cede.com
Book stores (book & free mp3-Download): www.tredition.de
ISBN: 978-3-347-42792-1 (Hardcover),
ISBN: 978-3-347-42791-4 (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-3-347-42793-8 (e-Book)
Website: https://richardkoechli.ch/en/
PR & Promotion: john@johninhoustonpr.com , www.johninhoustonpr.com
Media Contact Switzerland: Hape Schuwey, hapeschu@bluewin.ch, Tel. +41 79 413 54 90
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Richard Koechli, Holy Blues: Die 400-jährige Reise einer Musikseele.
tredition, 978-3-347-42792-1, 152 S, 2021
(Buch/CD)
"Deutschfolk - Soundtrack zum Volksliedrevival in der BRDDR", NoEthno, 2021
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Photo Credits:
(1ff) Book Covers,
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkl%C3%A4nder
(4) Hannes Wader,
(7) Helmut Debus,
(12) Lilienthal
(unknown/website);
(from website/author/publishers);
(5) Liederjan,
(by The Mollis).
(by Walkin' Tom).
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