The Alphaville Podcast - Eternally Yours | Ep 5: Summer In Berlin - Symphonic Version

The fith episode of the new Alphaville podcast is out now! Joined by his daughter Lily, Marian Gold talks about 'Summer In Berlin - Symphonic Version' that is part of the upcoming album 'Eternally Yours'. Subscribe to the Alphaville-Newsletter for early access to the latest episode of the podcast: https://www.alphaville.info/newslette... Marian Gold about the song: “When Alphaville retreated into splendid isolation in Münster, our first album ‘Forever Young’ became a collection of homesickness hymns about the wonders of our rotten, bombed out and disrupted homeland West Berlin. It was the realm where all our wildest Pop dreams were born. And the pivotal song was ‘Summer in Berlin’. It describes this special kind of love you can only feel for your ugly dog.” Get the Collectors Box here - including 3 LPs, 2 CDs, 1 MC, 1 USB-Stick and a handsigned photo of Marian Gold: https://NM.lnk.to/CollectorsBoxID Get the upcoming album 'Eternally Yours' here: All available products: https://bio.to/AlphavilleID Digital & physical album: https://NM.lnk.to/AlphavilleID Pre-order Vinyl Gold Edition: https://NM.lnk.to/VinylGoldID Pre-order Vinyl Black Edition: https://NM.lnk.to/BlackVinylID About the upcoming album 'Eternally Yours': Alphaville, Germany’s biggest synth-pop export and creator of the legendary 80s anthems “Big in Japan”, “Sounds like a Melody” and “Forever Young”, has decided to go symphonic. The band is doing things on the grand scale and catapulting the band’s 40 years of greatest hits out of the orbit of synthesizers and rhythm machines into the world of the human sound machine, the symphony orchestra. “Eternally Yours” is more, much more, than a mere translation of the songs into the sound spectrum of a great orchestra. What it amounts to, rather, is a symbiosis of Marian Gold’s unique vocal capacities, the original Alphaville sound and the majestic power and rich timbres of the concert-hall-sized German Film Orchestra of Babelsberg. “Eternally Yours” is about the everlasting theme of endurance and evanescence. The lyrics of songs from the past four decades were written predominantly by Gold himself. One central theme for Alphaville and Gold has always been the dream: “We really get around quite a lot, we’ve played almost everywhere, in our heads and out of our heads. All that goes into our music, into the idea of what Alphaville could be. It is like a never-ending dream. Those who hear our music hear fragments of this dream.” The title-track, specifically written for this event comes across like an amorous farewell letter. “I didn't write a single line of my own for this song. All the words and all the ideas come from Shakespeare's Sonnetts. All I did was recompile and minimally adjust them, so as to make them more singable for me.” “All 23 musical pieces on this album have been essentially clarified by their arrangement, they’re stripped clean, released, set free. Their true nature has been revealed.” Gold and his two arrangers Max Knoth and Christian Lohr have given this album the sonic ambience that matches the musical content of its songs. The songs don’t sound overblown, either, they’re not pushed beyond their limits – on the contrary, the album has such natural, warm, even familiar tones that listening to it, you wonder why there haven’t been more symphonic arrangements of Alphaville songs in the past. Gold goes so far as to say: “When I hear it, ‘Eternally Yours’ really does sound as if it were actually the first Alphaville album – except that for forty years, it lay unreleased. We simply didn’t have access to an orchestra in those days.” The album “Eternally Yours” by Alphaville with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg will be released with ‪@NeueMeister‬ on September 23, 2022. __ 2023 live on anniversary tour Alphaville – „40th Anniversary: The Symphonic Tour“ with orchestra Tickets: https://alphaville.reservix.de/events __ Visit Alphaville on www.alphaville.earth Instagram: @alphaville.music Facebook: @alphavilleofficial Twitter: @alphaville_band Visit Marian Gold on Facebook: @mariangoldofficial Instagram: @mariangold_official Twitter: @marian__gold For questions regarding the band please contact Claudia Pernold at [email protected] Booking: [email protected] Produced by We Are Producers #Alphaville #SummerInBerlin #EternallyYours #MarianGold #TheAlphavillePodcast #NeueMeister