wir bauen eine Stadt cassette
In 1930, in the waning years of the Weimar Republic, Paul Hindemith wrote a short cycle of songs for children. Titled “We Are Building a Town,” Hindemith’s piece combines modernist tunes with fanciful lyrics about, yes, municipal construction. Hindemith’s town is an odd place, filled with bakers, locksmiths, washerwomen, dairymen bearing maggot-ridden cheese, chalk-consuming children, and puppy-poodle dogs.
In 1982, Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlman of Palais Schaumburg fame offered a new interpretation of the text, replacing the original instruments with synthesizers and singing the children’s parts themselves. Released in a limited, cassette-only edition on Ata-tak, their otherwise faithful reworking of the Hindemith original became something of a minor legend.
Label: Ata Tak
Catalog#: WC 1
Format: Cassette-Tape, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Experimental
Notes: This is the 1930 opera by Paul Hindemith, read and interpreted by Hiller & Fehlmann. Mind that it is not the same as the later Palais Schaumburg - Song "Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt".
Tracklisting:
- Wir Bauen Eine Stadt (1:50)
- Gibst Du Mir Steine, Geb Ich Dir Sand (0:45)
- Baumusik (0:55)
- Erst Kommt Der Bäcker (1:27)
- Mit Dem Autobus (1:11)
- Besuchermusik (1:27)
- Ich Bin Ein Schaffner (1:07)
- Guten Tag, Frau Bergmann (1:39)
- Jetzt Ist's Nacht, Alles Schläft (1:16)
- Bei Uns Haben Die Erwachsenen Nichts Zu Sagen (1:02)
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