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Saturday, September 13, 2014
Jan Josef Liefers aka “Crime Scene” -Rechtsmediziner Professor Boerne makes for many years also music and played with the program “The soundtrack of my childhood” more than 250 concerts. His band Oblivion he had, however, now renamed to Radio Doria: The US-Metal band Oblivion had trademarked the name years ago. With Facebook and Twitter, there was already the end of August marveled comments: Fans had “lost children” of Radio Doria heard on the radio and only realized belatedly that hides Jan Josef Liefers with a new band name behind it. The actor and musician himself finds it amazing, especially not to stand in the forefront of his troops, as he says in an interview with n-tv.de. In an interview about his new album “The free voice of insomnia” He also revealed why he likes at night time does not sleep, what John Cage has to do with the plate and why he accompanied a war reporter to Syria.
n-tv.de: Has it hit you having to give the name Oblivion
Jan Josef Liefers: No. There stood as a complete band name always: Jan Josef Liefers and Oblivion. This has bothered me anyway. And the trademark problems were a good occasion to say: We make the Jan Josef away and are now simply Radio Doria. It’s like a new start for us. And what amused me: We make for more than ten years together music, have no end concerts played, and now come with our first fully self-written album around the corner – so to speak, the debut album
. Then the name Radio Doria was waiting ready in the drawer?
So it was not quite. But the name was obvious. The idea of this head radio, the night prevents one from sleeping, to make an evening, I had some time. And radio and Doria, the letters are the same, just rolled through today. As that happens, when you’re not quite awake but still not sleeping properly. Many people feel insomnia as a problem. But it can also be great times at night not to sleep.
So you’re someone who is very active at night?
Yes, and that’s why I thought the insomnia does not only doctors, but also a free voice.
Then you have the songs probably written at night?
Some have actually been written at night. But it rarely happens that by the end you write a song from the beginning in one go. You have an idea, then you have a few lines, then it is again a few days. Then you not like a line, and you wonder how you can do the better, and this takes place not necessarily at night. But very often have much to do to the texts with the night, the themes and ideas.
How easy or how difficult is the songwriting, if you do it the first time itself?
You have to take a trip down to your possibilities and also to your taste. For me, it has not been easy to write a German text. I will give no platitudes from me, it should not be a hit-Allerlei. You want to be special in the things you say, but also not overly intellectual. You want to say things as simple as possible, but with unusual words or images. This takes a bit. And I’ve learned that I can get help on him as well.
In a song it says to you “In my head Radio Doria plays”. What music is playing on this channel?
There is actually running our plate. Things one displaced by day, like a boomerang coming back at night. The night is a strange time and like a magnifying glass for all sorts of things – fears, anxieties, but also euphoria. But at night is also a time to let you in the people alone. The night is outside of business hours. If you can not sleep at times, it is also possible to stand up and make the night a friend. The peace and the time it can take to create a complex thing, such as a relationship to reconsider. This is by day not because race you need from A to B and shopping and the kids pick up and so on
I need a little help. I hear this night reference not so much from the songs out.
not the “Moon Song”? Oh well. Not everything that’s bothering you at night, has to do with the night. It does not automatically scary movie and anxiety and melancholy sound. . There is much happiness in the game, they also experienced even the wildest and funniest nights
“Lost Children” you sing “We are who we are Just as we were as a child.” Do you have the feeling that you have not changed you?
I have of course changed me, especially in my behavior. But not really in character. Meanwhile, I do not quite mind that people change fundamentally. It is his soul never go. We can modify our behavior, we may adjust, adapt, we can completely deny us over the years, probably also sell our beliefs, but it all comes back and we eventually end up on the couch of a soul plumber.
Some songs were in Halberstadt next to the church, where the organ piece “Organ2 / ASLP” by John Cage is listed to be played as slowly as possible. These were probably inclined sounds in the neighborhood.
One reason why we do not depend on how other bands daily in the sample space, I am. There are just so many other things to do, movies, theater, and therefore I can not make music every day. So we decided, we take regularly one or two weeks out and say Adios, the phones remain off we go somewhere in the Pampa, where no one can disturb us. Halberstadt was such a spot because someone knew a former nunnery, and there we could be loud and make our stuff. What we did not know: Next door was this disused church, was listed in John Cage’s “As Slow As Possible”, which is intended to last for a period of 639 years, according to the will of the local organizers. Earliest in a few years it will come back to a change in tone. Then a faithful church will be approached from all over the world to hear the new sound first. After that will happen again for many years nothing. Everything is going as slow as possible. We thought we’d go to the end of the world where there are maybe a few cows around. Instead, we came to a hotspot of the avant-garde, in a habitat where the total culture-Punk went off.
You are also obsessed with a U.S. war reporter in Aleppo. How did it happen that you go to Syria?
Robert King, who for years in the middle of war zones
going to document what really means war, has shown me his pictures from Syria. It occurred to me that there is such a serene distance mentality prevails in Germany, according to the motto: tragic, but not our beer. And then I thought, if you want to talk about it out loud, you need a kind of “mandate”, you need to trust you at least go where journalists – barely walk – for good reasons. My impressions win. We live here – thank God – for almost 70 years in peace. Both I and most of my countrymen know war only from afar, only messages. And then I thought, if there is an opportunity to come out through trusted contacts to Aleppo and possible healing again, then you do it.
I was with a tiny group of initiates a day in Aleppo. This day I will never forget. We had a truck baby milk from Human Plus eV case, but the security reasons took a different route. I tried to initiate a debate about our role in this conflict, but did not get far. No one here has any idea what it means to survive in Syria, to be consumed between the terror of Assad’s troops and the terror of the IS remotely. Bombard times two years Prenzlauer Berg (District of Berlin, Anm.d.Red.) And then ask people what’s left in culture of civic life.
On the Republica were you when Privacy activists in use. How do you keep it private, you encrypt mails and documents, are you reluctant to go on the net?
More on the topic
I’m not fit enough in these matters. I send most emails unencrypted. I use encrypted messaging services like Threema or Hoccer and when I learn that the well can no longer provide for privacy, I see further. I do not, because I write secret, subversive things, but because I find important Privacy Policy. I do not want to be monitored and spied on. When I think, I stick to the cameras to computers. I have nothing to hide. But that does not mean I anyone who is capable of doing, permit to monitor me. This is certainly a big question of the near future will be: how do I keep my private life out effectively strangers out. I could discuss with you long on the downsides of the Internet. But we make the next album!
with Jan-Josef Liefers Nadine Emmerich
said “The free voice of speechlessness” appears at 12 September -. Order at Amazon
Source: n-tv.de
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