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At nearly 80 Udo Jürgens is at the height of his creative work. His 53rd studio album “Mitten im Leben” (“In The Midst Of Life”) with twelve current songs was released in February 2014. Besides songs with provoking humor and witty plain language there are others with more placid and poetic thoughts from real life.
From October 24, 2014 on Udo Jürgens will tour Germany again with the Pepe Lienhard Orchestra. He will also perform in Austria and Switzerland. For exact tour dates please go to: www.udojuergens.de.
In time before the start of the tour on October 24, 2014 MELODIE DER WELT released the songbook of the new album “Mitten im Leben” (piano/vocal edition) containing twelve new songs and four intermezzi by Udo Jürgens, arranged by Prof. Gerhard Weihe.
Further information can be found in the chapter “sheet music”. The songbook is commercially available at a price of € 29.99 (order no.: 239218/93/10, ISMN 979-0-2049-0532-4).
The co-publishers THE MUSICBROKERS and Melodie der Welt have invited to a songwriters camp in Hamburg. From June 11 to 13 up to 15 selected authors met to write songs fusing genre specifically for artists from Germany, Denmark, Norway, Australia and Japan. Organized and supervised on site by the Hamburg based music agency THE MUSICBROKERS 14 new songs were written in the long-established Chameleon Studios within three days.
Says Tom Nevermann, THE MUSICBROKERS’ CEO: “It’s always great to watch authors cooperating fully concentrated and enthusiastically in songwriter camps and at the end of the day to listen to fresh and new songs. The teams were diverse – experienced songwriters worked with newcomers; the result of it are always songs with a special touch.” John Ruhrmann, Melodie der Welt’s A&R adds: “We are excited by the results. Top class songs which will definitely find international artists. As publisher we place great value on creating an environment for our authors where they can work constructively and relaxed with new influences. And that’s what the songwriters camp of THE MUSIKBROKERS offered them. The results speaks for thelselves.” Further joint camps are already planned.
Picture (left to right) Benjamin Lawrenz, Eike Freese, Alex Dietz, Christoph Hassel, Justin Balk, Bernd Klimpel, Elzbieta Steinmetz, Janik Riegert, Christoph Hessler, Josh Tapen, Jan Listing, Jan Grasmück, Tom Nevermann (THE MUSICBROKERS), Matthias Heising)
With his songs “Amoi seg’ ma uns wieder”, “I sing a Liad für di”, “Zuckerpuppen” or “So liab hob I di” and his previously released albums Andreas Gabalier hits the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. And his appearance in the show “Sing meinen Song – das Tauschkonzert” (“Sing My Song – The Changing Songs Concert”) and the emotional cover version of “Amoi seg’ ma uns wieder” sung by Xavier Naidoo helped him to win additional fans.
All Andreas Gabalier songs from the Sing My Song show are also contained in our Andreas Gabalier Songbook - „Seine bestens Songs“ (piano/vocal with composite chord symbol) for additional information please go to “sheet music”. The songbook is available at a price of € 29.99 (order no. 225564/93/10, ISMN 979-0-2049-0529-4). Also available is the piano/vocal single edition of "I sing a Liad für di" (order no. 216620/01/10, ISMN 979-0-2049-0527-0).
The folk rock ‘n’ roller from our Edition Stall will perform live again soon. After his successful tour through the concert halls in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in autumn 2013 Andreas Gabalier will start the open air season end of May with seven gigs:
28.05.2014 Nürnberg, Arena Freigelände
29.05.2014 Frankfurt, Stadion im Sportpark Neu-Isenburg
03.07.2014 Dresden, Filmnächte am Elbufer
04.07.2014 Berlin, Waldbühne
11.07.2014 Fulda, Domplatz
12.07.2014 München, Königsplatz
06.08.2014 Ludwigsburg, Residenzschloss
(C) Michael Mey
We sincerely congratulate our long term partner and author Udo Jürgens to the Music Author Award 2014 in the category lifetime achievement. Since 1977 Melodie der Welt is proud to publish and administer the songs of this unique artist and entertainer.
In 2014 he released his 53rd studio album “Mitten im Leben”. During his career Udo Jürgens sold over 100 million sound carriers. End of October he will start his 25th concert tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Melodie der Welt will release a song book with the titles of the new album “Mitten im Leben”. We will make an announcement on our homepage as soon as it is available.
Quelle: GEMA / Thomas Rosenthal
Edition LA COSA MIA and MELODIE DER WELT have signed a long term exclusive writer's agreement with the Berlin band PULS. Togehter with their poducer Michael Knight the brothers Ibo and Ozy Kurnaz decided to let the Frankfurt publishing company and the Edition of music manager Daniel Sluga handle their publishing rights. The group's debut album "EINS" was released by Polydor/Universal on April 25, 2014.
Says MdW's A&R John Ruhrmann: "When listening to the songs of PULS which Daniel Sluga played to me already some time ago I immediately knew that these are artists and auhors with a lot of potential. Exceptional sound with powerful lyrics performed by great artists. This would be just the right soundtrack for a new Schimanski crime movie"
Daniel Sluga: "From the very beginning I was a fan of PULS. Absolutely singular and unique. In my view the polarizing sound is a great chance for this project."
Foto (from left to right): Ozy Kurnaz (Puls), Ibo Kurnaz (Puls), John Ruhrmann (A&R Manager, Melodie der Welt), Michael Knight (Produzent von Puls), Daniel Sluga (La Cosa Mia)
