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                 [: ARTIST..... :] Jan Steiner
                 [: TITLE...... :] Once Upon A Time
                 [: GENRE...... :] House
                 [: RIP DATE... :] 2022-09-22
                 [: LABEL...... :] Traum
                 [: CAT NR..... :] TRAUMV273
                 [: TRACKS..... :] 10
                 [: SIZE....... :] 114m
                 [: QUALITY.... :] 320kbps 44.1kHz
                 [: CODEC...... :] MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III)
                 [: ENCODER.... :] LAME
                 [: URL........ :] https://www.deezer.com/en/album/345364097

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             01. Once Upon A Time (Original Mix) .............. 03:59      
             02. Sterntaler (Original Mix) .................... 05:05      
             03. Frau Holle (Original Mix) .................... 05:42      
             04. Dornroschen Und Die Letzte Fee (Original Mix)  04:12      
             05. Schwarzwald (Original Mix) ................... 05:19      
             06. Waldesnacht (Original Mix) ................... 05:03      
             07. Licht Und Finsternis (Original Mix) .......... 04:02      
             08. The Funked-up Wolf (Original Mix) ............ 05:18      
             09. And Lived Happily Ever After... (Original Mix)  04:56      
             10. Father Reads (Original Mix) .................. 06:04      

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             Here we are releasing a full length album by Jan Steiner, a 
             German artist who lives in Ireland.He has just recently released 
             a track on Tour De Traum XXIII which needless to say, we liked a 
             lot.Jan is still an upcoming artist but has been recognized by 
             people with taste. He is not part of any scene but writes music 
             solemnly for himself.
             The theme of his album is The Brothers Grimm (germ. Gebrder 
             Grimm) which was right away very temping for us. For those of 
             you who have known us for a longer time now, will remember that 
             we had a legendary Traum label video feature in 2007 for 
             Electronic Beats (Slices 03 -07) filmed in a vintage fairytale 
             forest which featured a lot of the Brother Grimm tales! A place 
             we all had been going to since our childhood.So all evolved 
             naturally here.

             Jan is a multi-faced artist who writes melodic techno and 
             listening music and modern piano music. He was recently included 
             in a Nils Frahm piano list at Spotify. He writes his music 
             surrounded by the picturesque Irish seaside and nature. His 
             music has an almost meditative feel to it and clads you in lush 
             melodies.This is his description of the project in his own words 
             showing his personal involvement:

             My album is inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm. I 
             read these stories as a child, and they left a vivid impression 
             on me. When I moved from Germany to Ireland, the mystic and 
             ancient landscape re-ignited my childhood imagination. The tales 
             re-surfaced in my consciousness. I turned to music to re-tell 
             their stories. 

             The album was created during the stressful COVID period over the 
             last two years. Working on it helped me escape and switch off 
             from reality and emerge in a phantastic imaginary world. 

             My musical journey follows the mythology and folklore of these 
             iconic stories. I committed the story telling tradition to 
             electronic music and brought this romantic period into the 21st 
             century.The music evokes the vivid rhythm of nature and 
             environment- light and darkness, movement and stillness, depth, 
             and soaring heights. Melody and rhythm absorb the heart and soul 
             of these stories, evoking deep-seated memories of dark, unknown 
             forests and forgotten places. The balance of good and evil 
             shifts and swings like branches in the wind. 

             The physical and sensual music, inspired by these stories, 
             speaks the language of nature and imagination. The enchanting 
             world of Grimms fairy tales correspond with the spirit of the 
             music. 

             The album invites the listener to join in this journey of the 
             emotional world of romanticism, fairytales, and mystic nature. 

             It starts with the classic intro once upon a time evoking an 
             image of the listener opening the book of the brothers Grimm to 
             read their stories. 

             Each song takes quotes either from one of the Grimms fairytales 
             or of Jans imagination of pictures and landscapes relating to 
             the fairytale word and romantic epoch. 

             Sterntaler (eng. The Star Talers) captures the moment when the 
             good child just after having given away her last shirt is 
             standing alone and naked in the field when the sky opens, and 
             stars fall down turning into money to make her rich until the 
             end of her life. And thus, she stood there, with nothing left at 
             all, when suddenly some stars fell down from heaven, and they 
             were nothing else but hard shining talers, and although she had 
             just given her shift away, she was now wearing a new one which 
             was of the very finest linen. Then she gathered together the 
             money into it and was rich all the days of her life.

             Frau Holle (eng. Mother Hulda or Old Mother Frost): Don't be 
             afraid, dear child. Stay here with me, and if you do my 
             housework in an orderly fashion, it will go well with you. Only 
             you must take care to make my bed well and shake it diligently 
             until the feathers fly, then it will snow in the world. I am 
             Frau Holle.

             Dornrschen und die letzte Fee (eng. Little brier-rose or 
             sleeping beauty): The eleventh fairy had just pronounced her 
             blessing when the thirteenth suddenly walked in. She wanted to 
             avenge herself for not having been invited, and without greeting 
             anyone or even looking at them she cried out with a loud voice, 
             In the princess's fifteenth year she shall prick herself with a 
             spindle and fall over dead. And without saying another word she 
             turned around and left the hall.Everyone was horrified, but then 
             the twelfth fairy, who had not yet offered her wish, stepped 
             forward. Because she was unable to undo the wicked wish, but 
             only to soften it, she said, It shall not be her death. The 
             princess will only fall into a hundred-year deep sleep.

             Schwarzwald (here rather generalised as Black Forest): the dark, 
             mystic forest plays a central role in many tales that were 
             recorded by the brothers Grimm or others such as Wilhelm Hauff. 
             Hauffs fairytale Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone) does not begin 
             with the typical once upon a time but rather: If you travel 
             through south Germany, never forget to visit the Black Forest. 

             Waldesnacht (translated as night in the woods) is a word 
             creation and a quote taken from Joseph von Eichendorffs poem 
             Sehnsucht (yearning): where the woods rustle so gentlyof springs 
             that rush out from the cleftsinto the night of the woods.

             Licht und Finsternis (eng. light and darkness): the mergence of 
             light and dark, of reality and fantasy are typical for the 
             romantic epoch. This song resembles the image of sunrise in 
             which light and darkness fight for the upper hand. 

             The funked-up Wolf is a reminiscence to the big bad wolf in 
             little red riding hood: a big bad Wolf wants to eat the girl and 
             her food in the basket she is meant to bring to her grandmother 
             who lives alone in the woods. The wolf secretly stalks her 
             behind trees, bushes, shrubs, and patches of little and tall 
             grass. He approaches Little Red Riding Hood, and she navely 
             tells him where she is going.

             And lived happily ever after: the album ends with the classical 
             phrase thereby closing the imaginary book and hence the journey 
             into the world of the fairytales of the brothers Grimm.

             Father reads is a bonus track- an improvisation evoking evening 
             storytelling, a father reading fairytales to his children, their 
             eyes large with interest and imaginings.

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