This article is based on this Dutch article of Martijn Benders
Exactly.
They want to dissolve into you, Linda.
Done.
Infernal bright railway.
Dieter.
My name is Hare.
The shell
Waste your youth.
Squander your youth.
Lonely lovers.
Ten songs for the Stoss album are finished. I’m aiming for thirteen tracks, as I find thirteen a beautiful number. I already have thirteen songs, but there are about ten of them that I don’t think are good enough for the record. An outcome of immersing myself so fully in “Germanness” was that a spinoff emerged: entirely German songs appeared that, while excellent as German songs, didn’t fit within the Stoss style. Dieter, true to his enormous ego, has included those on a solo album.
I’m thrilled that there’s also a Linda song on the album, because New Wave without Linda is unimaginable for me. This, of course, stems from me being brainwashed by Frank Boeijen.
My Linda song doesn’t compare to that of Boeijen, naturally, but as a Linda song it’s still a fitting addition to the existing Lindawave canon, I think—otherwise, I wouldn’t have included it on the album.
Dieter’s spinoff now has six songs that we deemed good enough. I’m currently listening to Ludwig, meine Bube ist schmutzig and think that one might make the cut too—so that’s seven. The shorter version of the Komapolka as well? Or Bratkartoffeln? The latter is arguably more in the Stoss style, but having some charming and credible crossover would be fun.
(The second half of Bratkartoffeln is really strong, I just need to cut off the first half.)
Alright, alright, Benders watched too much *Sendung mit der Maus* as a child. Still, I find this project much more difficult than the *Berry Lee Berry* project. Why? Not because of the German essence—that actually suits me—but because New Wave is, somehow, a challenging music form. You might expect the opposite, thinking it’s an inherently simple style, but perhaps that’s precisely why. It’s easy to create something that sounds like many other songs, and that’s exactly what you want to avoid.
After these two albums, I’ve definitely earned a vacation.
Dieter dances his Krautdance, a genre I invented during this period of work, alongside the Brabowelle.
Kind regards,
Martinus Benders