29-10-2007, 04:29
Hey folks...
irgendwie verschlägt es mich immer hierher, wenn ich was los werden will....mein gott, ich glaube ich habe ein kleines schlafproblem ;D ;D ;D
am 02.05.2008 kommt ne neue scheibe von Lenny Kravitz, Namens Love Revolution:
Interview zum neuen Album..............
The publicist who connects Spinners call to Lenny Kravitz explains that the
musician is currently in Brazil, and it will be hard to hear him. But after minutes
of speaking to the 43-year-old funk-soul rocker, its apparent that no matter how
weak the connection is, anyone on the receiving end of him understands what he is
saying loud and clear.
Despite an 18-year career -- one thats rendered four Grammys and platinum
certification seven times over -- Kravitz is as common as ever. He speaks in a
smooth rhythm, his voice miles away, but Kravitzs message permeates the distance.
Its a message that hes sent before, and one hes determined to send again. One
needn look further than the title of his forthcoming album to decipher: Its Time
for a Love Revolution. Spinner spoke to Kravitz about the new album, his recent
personal trials -- including the death of his father -- and our celebrity-obsessed
society. He may be an ever-cool cat, but this time around hes letting his lions
heart shine.
What inspired the \"love revolution\" theme for the album?
From day one, Ive always said let love rule, and love has always been a central
theme on my albums whether its person to person, social -- whatever. But I feel
like its time to take that to the next step -- to be more hardcore. That sounds
funny in reference to love, but the world is such a negative place and theres war
in every corner. Theres people dying everywhere and theres no understanding
between people and countries. Its time to really get people to join together in the
name of love, period.
The phrase \"Its time for a love revolution\" conjures images of the 60s anti-war
movement. You even have a song called Back in Vietnam.
That song clearly is about Iraq and how I feel that it mirrors a lot of the Vietnam
crisis ... here we are again in that type of situation.
Your father passed away in the time since you released your last album, Baptism.
Is A Long and Sad Goodbye a message to him?
Yeah. We had a very interesting, very tumultuous relationship. He passed going on
two years now at the end of the year, and the beauty is that we got to make peace
before he passed. So the song expresses how I felt about our relationship, my
childhood, what he did, but at the end of the song, it ends on a major chord which
makes the last note sound uplifting as opposed to sad. Its that glimmer of
happiness that we got to experience before he died.
The slower-tempo songs – This Moment Is All There Is, A New Door and If You
Want It – are somewhat paternal. Did you write them with specific person in mind?
Im speaking to myself. I speak to everybody, but I really speak to myself first.
Living in the now -- in reference to This Moment Is All There Is -- is a very
difficult thing to do and I feel that its really important starting with my life.
We spend so much time in the past and in the future, that we miss so many of the
moments that are right in front of us.
Where do you fit in todays musical landscape?
I don feel part of anything. I just feel like Im myself. I make my music and I
put it out and, you know, even when I had huge hit records they were never like
whatever was on the radio. They were always different and they always changed the
face of radio in some respects. So I don feel like a part of any group or
movement. Im just myself.
Did you feel that you had something to prove with this album given your previous
successes?
No. For each album, its about expressing myself honestly -- thats the challenge.
If I express myself honestly and if the record really stands for where I am in my
life at that moment, then its a successful record. I don have anything to prove
-- I just have to enjoy myself and enjoy the gift that Ive been given. Thats
enough for me.
Did you always think of it your destiny to be a famous musician?
Honestly, I never thought about being a star. I know a lot of people do, but what I
thought about was just being a musician. And in my head, that meant I could have
been a drummer in a jazz band, or I could have been a bass player in somebodys
band, or a studio musician -- play in a club or on the street. It didn matter. I
knew that I would be a musician prior to the time that I was 5, 6 years old
Youe no stranger to media attention. How do you feel about societys
ever-increasing interest in celebrity?
There are so many other things in the world to be concentrating on -- not to mention
peoples own lives. Its sad that we really spend so much time worrying about other
people, and really odd that wee getting off on their problems. I don understand
it. It also shows that theres a deep emptiness in our society. If thats what we
get off on -- if thats what wee spending all of our time paying attention to and
buying all these magazines and listening to all this gossip, celebrating people who
have little to no talent -- then it shows that there is a big emp
und hier eine Tracklist zum neuen Album:
\"Bring It On\"
\"A Love Revolution\"
\"Good Morning\"
\"Luv Luv Luv\"
\"If You Want It\"
\"Ill Be Waiting\"
\"Will You Marry Me\"
\"I Love the Rain\"
\"A Long and Sad Goodbye\"
\"Dancing Till Dawn\"
\"Back in Vietnam\"
\"A New Door\"
\"This Moment Is All There\"
\"I Want To Go Home\"
\"Dream\"
--
Die Vernunft ist des Herzens größte Feindin...
irgendwie verschlägt es mich immer hierher, wenn ich was los werden will....mein gott, ich glaube ich habe ein kleines schlafproblem ;D ;D ;D
am 02.05.2008 kommt ne neue scheibe von Lenny Kravitz, Namens Love Revolution:
Interview zum neuen Album..............
The publicist who connects Spinners call to Lenny Kravitz explains that the
musician is currently in Brazil, and it will be hard to hear him. But after minutes
of speaking to the 43-year-old funk-soul rocker, its apparent that no matter how
weak the connection is, anyone on the receiving end of him understands what he is
saying loud and clear.
Despite an 18-year career -- one thats rendered four Grammys and platinum
certification seven times over -- Kravitz is as common as ever. He speaks in a
smooth rhythm, his voice miles away, but Kravitzs message permeates the distance.
Its a message that hes sent before, and one hes determined to send again. One
needn look further than the title of his forthcoming album to decipher: Its Time
for a Love Revolution. Spinner spoke to Kravitz about the new album, his recent
personal trials -- including the death of his father -- and our celebrity-obsessed
society. He may be an ever-cool cat, but this time around hes letting his lions
heart shine.
What inspired the \"love revolution\" theme for the album?
From day one, Ive always said let love rule, and love has always been a central
theme on my albums whether its person to person, social -- whatever. But I feel
like its time to take that to the next step -- to be more hardcore. That sounds
funny in reference to love, but the world is such a negative place and theres war
in every corner. Theres people dying everywhere and theres no understanding
between people and countries. Its time to really get people to join together in the
name of love, period.
The phrase \"Its time for a love revolution\" conjures images of the 60s anti-war
movement. You even have a song called Back in Vietnam.
That song clearly is about Iraq and how I feel that it mirrors a lot of the Vietnam
crisis ... here we are again in that type of situation.
Your father passed away in the time since you released your last album, Baptism.
Is A Long and Sad Goodbye a message to him?
Yeah. We had a very interesting, very tumultuous relationship. He passed going on
two years now at the end of the year, and the beauty is that we got to make peace
before he passed. So the song expresses how I felt about our relationship, my
childhood, what he did, but at the end of the song, it ends on a major chord which
makes the last note sound uplifting as opposed to sad. Its that glimmer of
happiness that we got to experience before he died.
The slower-tempo songs – This Moment Is All There Is, A New Door and If You
Want It – are somewhat paternal. Did you write them with specific person in mind?
Im speaking to myself. I speak to everybody, but I really speak to myself first.
Living in the now -- in reference to This Moment Is All There Is -- is a very
difficult thing to do and I feel that its really important starting with my life.
We spend so much time in the past and in the future, that we miss so many of the
moments that are right in front of us.
Where do you fit in todays musical landscape?
I don feel part of anything. I just feel like Im myself. I make my music and I
put it out and, you know, even when I had huge hit records they were never like
whatever was on the radio. They were always different and they always changed the
face of radio in some respects. So I don feel like a part of any group or
movement. Im just myself.
Did you feel that you had something to prove with this album given your previous
successes?
No. For each album, its about expressing myself honestly -- thats the challenge.
If I express myself honestly and if the record really stands for where I am in my
life at that moment, then its a successful record. I don have anything to prove
-- I just have to enjoy myself and enjoy the gift that Ive been given. Thats
enough for me.
Did you always think of it your destiny to be a famous musician?
Honestly, I never thought about being a star. I know a lot of people do, but what I
thought about was just being a musician. And in my head, that meant I could have
been a drummer in a jazz band, or I could have been a bass player in somebodys
band, or a studio musician -- play in a club or on the street. It didn matter. I
knew that I would be a musician prior to the time that I was 5, 6 years old
Youe no stranger to media attention. How do you feel about societys
ever-increasing interest in celebrity?
There are so many other things in the world to be concentrating on -- not to mention
peoples own lives. Its sad that we really spend so much time worrying about other
people, and really odd that wee getting off on their problems. I don understand
it. It also shows that theres a deep emptiness in our society. If thats what we
get off on -- if thats what wee spending all of our time paying attention to and
buying all these magazines and listening to all this gossip, celebrating people who
have little to no talent -- then it shows that there is a big emp
und hier eine Tracklist zum neuen Album:
\"Bring It On\"
\"A Love Revolution\"
\"Good Morning\"
\"Luv Luv Luv\"
\"If You Want It\"
\"Ill Be Waiting\"
\"Will You Marry Me\"
\"I Love the Rain\"
\"A Long and Sad Goodbye\"
\"Dancing Till Dawn\"
\"Back in Vietnam\"
\"A New Door\"
\"This Moment Is All There\"
\"I Want To Go Home\"
\"Dream\"
--
Die Vernunft ist des Herzens größte Feindin...
