Gilgamesh Must Die! (Part One): a video by The bianca Story

Here's a video by The bianca Story: "Gilgamesh Must Die! (Part One)". I cowrote the lyrics. Enjoy!

You can get the album "Digger" for free by clicking on the band's name above. If you get it and like it, pass it on to your friends! (If you get and don't like it, pass it on to your enemies!)

The bianca Story on "wemakeit"

This past spring and early summer, I had several fantastic writing sessions with Elia Rediger and Anna Weibel of the Basel band The bianca Story. We collaborated on most of the lyrics for their forthcoming album. We came up with some really good stuff!

Now, the band has started a crowdfunding campaign to cover the expenses for recording the album. Their goal is to be able to give away the album for free online and at their concerts. 

You can check out their fascinating project on the wemake it website here. (Click on EN for English, or FR for French, if you can't read the German.)

And of course, it would be great if you could contribute to the project; the music is worth it! As I've said before about my work with Leonti: I'm proud to be part of such an excellent project!

"Be a digger!"

Leonti, "Pink Maria"

Pink Maria is the new album by Leonti, a band from Basel led by singer-guitarist Nadia Leonti and featuring Manuel Neubauer, Beni Bürgin, and Benj Gut. I am especially proud to have written quite a few of the lyrics for Nadia. For some of them, she took poems I had already written; for some, she had sketches that I filled in. As before, it was great to work with her on the project.

For information on how to get your own copy, check the band's website here.

(There are also two lyrics of mine on the band's earlier CD Everyone/I, so you should buy that one, too, if you don't have it already.)

Leonti at Rockfact, April 10, 2010

Leonti will be playing at Rockfact in Münchenstein on Saturday, April 10. I keep promoting Nadia's shows because she keeps asking me to write more lyrics for her. There will be at least a couple world premieres on Saturday, as far as I know.

Tundral Glories video

Here's a video of "Tundral Glories," by Leonti, from the album "Everyone/I" (which you can get from iTunes), with lyrics by yours truly.

Leonti in Basel, June 10, 2009

Nadia Leonti and Stefan Strittmatter
Kuppel, Basel, June 10, 2009

Leonti played a brilliant concert last night at the Kuppel in Basel, celebrating the release of "Everyone/I". Get yourself a copy of this brilliant recording! (Full disclosure: I wrote two of the lyrics.)

Leonti, "Everyone / I"

"Everyone / I" is (Nadia) Leonti's first solo CD, and it's available now from Faze Records, featuring "Tundral Glories" and "He Who Hesitates," with lyrics by yours truly. Plus the astonishingly beautiful "Poor Souls," with lyrics by Eric Facon. And the brilliant Stefan Strittmatter is on bass.

Get yourself a copy! [By buying one, that is! :-)]

Nadia Leonti

Two songs that I wrote lyrics for, "Tundral Glories" and "He Who Hesitates," are on Nadia Leonti's forthcoming CD, and you can hear them, along with other tunes from the CD, on Nadia's MySpace page.