MY LOVE

FOR JULI

 

I may be writing this from a lack of freewill. Juli seems certainly an enchanter, to have taken my reason and my heart as few bands ever have managed. Ich hab nicht mein Herz zurück. Warum bist du so magisch, wunderbar und schön? First, I’m a musician—as much a musician as the one who plays guitar and writes songs and sings and reads music somewhat poorly is a musician—and thus have been exposed, or have searched and enjoyed many kinds of music and musicians, and been inspired, etc., etc. Yet, few have touched my mind so warmly and made the left side of my chest to beat the way Juli has, whose songs are in a language I don’t even know well, though I have taken it so many times in High School and College—so that I should be an expert by now—and with which I have been in love forever. This is starting to sound like a confessional!

             Hailing from Gießen, Hesse, in Germany, the beginnings of the band, though promising, were not the type to hold your breath about. The band started as Sunnyglade with bassist Andreas “Dedi” Herde—don’t forget Dedi—drummers Martin Möller and Marcel Römer—why two?—and guitarists Jonas Pfetzing and Simon Triebel, who also sang.  Miriam Adameit was a beautiful addition to the band. She was for a while the front woman, taking Triebel’s job. Warum hat Mirian und Martin Möller verlassen? I care little to research the cause of the departure of these two, although I’m sure it was a sad moment. Enters a masterpiece, Eva Briegel. With Eval Briegel, we feel das gute gefühl. She takes music, beauty and voice to a new level. Reminds me to the explosion of Fleetwood Mac with the arrival or addition of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. They took the world by storm.

Tage wie dieser, kurz vor der Sonne 

untergeht,

Ich möchte, dass perfekte Welle

über mich kommen.

Marcel Römer, Jonas Pfetzing, Eva Briegel, Dedi Herde, Simon Triebel

 

I must here confess who are my favorite music figures of all time, who are always at the Top Charts of my heart, and let the reader know why Juli is such a big deal: The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Fleetwood Mac. Enter Juli, squeezing into the little room in my bosom, or storming into it, crouching Paul McCartney like a little willow, Bob Dylan wondering if there is a way out of there, and timorous Fleetwood Mac promising to stay put as long as I follow—which of course I do.

Beautiful song, it began a wave in Germany. Perfekte Welle (Perfect Wave) by Herde and Triebel, became controversial shortly after the South East Asian tsunami and was removed from radio stations and tv.

Not only are the members of Juli great musicians in love with their instruments, they are in love with their lyrics. Success in music not only takes talent and good lyrics, it also takes charisma, and Eva Briegel is a combination of all three. It is likely the band would not be Juli if Eva Briegel were not at the front of the band.

             Despite her talented backers, who, like her, are also brilliant composers, it is evident that Juli is visually and audibly, even charismatically, Eva Briegel. Like Steven Tyler is Aerosmith and Aerosmith would not be Aerosmith without him, so is Eval Briegel the force within Juli. The conclusion is therefore made: Eva Briegel is Juli and Juli is Eva Briegel. Sorry Triebel. Es tut mir leid. But I bow to you all.

             My discovery of Juli came by this song, below, as I researched the current music trends in Germany. I fell in love immediately. Something magical happened. It called to me. I had to find out more about this Juli.

Elektrisches Gefühl

             Needless to say, I found out quite a bit about it. The choice of German as the airwaves were filled with English language music was something like the first form of pride I saw in Germany in a long time. The youth immediately identified, and I started improving my German. Everybody won. Now Juli constitutes my main music in my German section of Spotify–Silbermond and Lafee occupy as well a select position in my esteem. There are many songs by Juli, and there is hardly one I do not like. I wondered for a while if the band would occupy a superficial esteem within me. But here the song that sealed the deal:

Geile Zeit

I was in. Juli, Eva Briegel, had done something that only the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Fleetwood Mac had ever been able to accomplish. They took me body and soul. Juli is now a Crown Jewel, meaning: nothing can top it.