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Everything changes · · · Songs of Bertolt Brecht

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1.	Fraternization song 03:41	lyrics	buy track
scarce seventeen was i the foe came to our land and laid aside his sabre took me by the hand we performed by day the sacred rite of may we performed by night another sacred rite the regiment, well excercised presented arms, then stood at ease then took us off behind the trees where we fraternized each of us had her foe a cook fell to my lot i hated him by daylight but in the dark did not so we perform by day the sacred rite of may and we performed by night that other sacred rite the regiment, well excercised presents its arms, then stands at ease then takes us off behind the trees where we fraternize ecstacy filled my heart, O my love seemd heaven-born! but why were people saying it was not love but scorn? the springtime's soft amour through summer may endure but swiftly comes the fall and winter ends it all december came. all of the men filed paast the trees where once we hid then quickly marched away and did not come back again.
2.	When we entered fair Milan 03:38	info	buy track
3.	Prayers I prayed 03:35	info	buy track
4.	Song of the recruit 04:06	info	buy track
5.	He's not coming back 02:11	info	buy track
6.	Lucifer's evening song 04:58	info	buy track
7.	Transplantation song 04:12	info	buy track
8.	Mentor song 03:57	info	buy track
9.	Aquluk's song 03:16	info	buy track
10.	Everything changes 03:01	info	buy track

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Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright and poet who is considered one of the great literary figures of the 20th century. His plays often included songs as a way of drawing the audience's attention and sympathies into a situation, only to shock them with hypocrisy, absurdity and other kinds of baseness. Music was a ruse and a diversion, but at the heart of the dialectic in 'epic' theatre. Brecht had several musical collaborators, most famously Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler. But, the melodies of some of the songs still get re-written for each performance of Brecht's plays. This album takes a few of Brecht's songs and poems and gives them new musical settings (tracks 1,2,4,5,7,11).

The other songs here (3,6,8,9,10) are on different themes and go nicely with the main course of Brecht.

Enjoy the music, share it with your friends, and if you have any comments please send them to ted.strauss@gmail.com.

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released March 1, 2011

Lyrics for 1,2,4,5,7,11 from the plays and poetry of Bertold Brecht
Songs by Ted Strauss

Ted Strauss - guitar, vocals
Dave Quanbury - guitars, slide, mandolin, dulcimer
Josh Zubot - fiddle
Jessica Segal - vocals (8 & 10)
Nicole MacDonald - cello (7)
Ron Feather - percussion (3,5)

Arrangements by Ted Strauss and musicians
Recorded by Graham Playford
(Additional recording by Martin Horn, Alex Rau, Ted Strauss)
Mixed by Charles Gagnon and Shane O'Connor
Mastered by Ryan Morey
Cover design by Katrin Whitehead

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