A FEW TIMES WE WERE VERY HAPPY
LITERARY CHANSONS
voice, piano + electronics

The composer and pianist Tobias Rank sets poems by Thomas Brasch, Sarah Kirsch, Ludwig Fels, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Hannah Arendt, Christine Lavant, Fritz Grasshoff, Georg Hoprich, Robert Schindel, Thomas Kunst, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, Andreas Koziol and Georg Maurer to music.

Songs and piano sounds for the perhaps rather quiet eyes and ears of the life that is now passing by; a tried and tested smile, an aware smile, mostly omnipresent.

On the stone, still slightly warmed by the sun,
I put my scarf and she put hers.
Sitting so close together,
that leg to leg talked in detail.
Leg to leg knows more than me and you ...
When we were standing, I moved away
away the stone on which we sank:
thoughts swarmed terribly there.
on days like these when nothing works
always goes

the time
that I take
take
I can
the others
leave