The Alphaville Podcast - Eternally Yours | Ep 10: Lassie Come Home - Symphonic Version

The tenth episode of the new Alphaville podcast is out now! Joined by his daughter Lily, Marian Gold talks about 'Lassie Come Home - Symphonic Version' that is part of the upcoming album 'Eternally Yours'. Tickets: https://alphaville.reservix.de/events 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: “In Summer 1982 I was hanging around all alone in our new home in Münster, since the rest of Alphaville were on holidays with their families, and I was feeling very lonely. In my appartement resided an old, worn-out out-of-tune piano from Rushworth and Dreaper, Liverpool, probably the legacy of a former tenant. At that time I couldn’t play at all, still today I am a lousy piano player, but I found Liverpool somehow inspiring and began to plonk away on the old crate with no specific idea in mind. I started around 5pm and about midnight I had written a new song called ‘Lassie Come Home’. It was my first ever self-composed song, born out of the self-pity of a left-alone dilettante. When we finally released ‘Lassie’ on our second album, I couldn’t believe that a music professor wrote a lengthy tract about its harmonic structure in one of these prestigious HiFi magazines. Since then I know that I am a genius.” 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 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 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: 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 [email protected] Booking: [email protected] Produced by We Are Producers Conception and Editorial management: Carolin Kaiser, Patrick Brabanski #Alphaville #LassieComeHome #EternallyYours #MarianGold #TheAlphavillePodcast