Das Leben (The Life)

Das Leben (The Life) is a video clip for the new track from Leonore Boulanger and Jean Daniel Botta. The video is directed by Ewan Golder

It's a track from their new album “Un Lieve était un très Cher Baisser” (A Hare was a very expensive kiss), this is an album of songs composed entirely of musical interpretations of poems by Ernst Herbeck, a poet who spent most of institutionalised in the Guggin psychiantric hospital. Herbeck was ask to write a poem every day on a different subject by his psychiatrist as part of his treatment, the result was thousands of poems.

Lenore and Jean Daniel are currently on the UK tour and you can catch them at various venues throughout the country. Tour link here

The lyrics for Dad Leben in English are

The Life of chickens is red

The quivering love of your nearest is red

Life is beautiful

The quivering hearts in the bodies of dogs

The Life of hearts is dear

Life makes the sky triumphant!

Life would like to be longer

Long live love, more slowly

Slowly, the life is long

Ernst Herbeck

(translated by Ewan Golder)