Harmonia
// Hans-Joachim Roedelius, co-founder & musicianHARMONIA are a Krautrock band from Forst, Germany. “Musik Von Harmonia” (1974), and “Deluxe” (1975) were both available from Brain Records, “Tracks And Traces” (1997) was available from Rykodisc, and “Live 1974 [Live]” (2007) is available from Gronland Records. Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ solo album “Bastionen Der Liebe / Fortress Of Love” (1989) was available from Venture Records, Lunz’s “Lunz Reinterpretations [2CD]” (2005), and “Works 1968-2005 [2CD]” (2006) are both available from Gronland Records, “Snapshots/Sidesteps” (2007) is available from Psychonavigation Records, and “Back Soon” (2008) is available from Barking Green Music and Nepenthe Music. Hans-Joachim Roedelius has collaborated with many artists, composers, and musicians including Brian Eno, Morgan Fisher, Globe Trotters Project, Conrad Schnitzler, and Tim Story.
Website: www.roedelius.com
Photo: Hans-Joachim Roedelius / Roedelius.com
Interview:
The spiritual significance of a piece of music, and what music has from its inner sense to tell the listener, is in my opinion related to the composers way of life; whether they try to live a life in respect of all that exists, whether they have experienced how to behave, and how to love. Here is one of my poems called “The Whisper Of Beauty”, released many years ago as the song “Life Is A Treasure Of…” on the album “Bastionen Der Liebe / Fortress Of Love”:
Life is a treasure of secrets
Blazing flame of an open expanse
Life is a gift spent to be fulfilled
By your own effort towards sense
Life is the great adventure
Beautiful journey into what you don’t know
When you start to go
When you have to show
What you’ve learned to be true
Life is a whisper of beauty
In the rush of the winds
In the floating of clouds
In the beat of the wings
As in sparkling springs
Indescribable mystery
Life is togetherness
In respect of the dignity
Of all what exists
Life is given as a grace
As a secret of love
“The spiritual significance of a piece of music, and what music has from its inner sense to tell the listener, is in my opinion related to the composers way of life.”
– Hans-Joachim Roedelius, co-Founder and musician
in Harmonia
