Combining literary, socially engaged texts with innovative and genre-breaking music, she has covered every kind of style, while at the same time maintaining her own identity on each and every recording, whether it be the samples (before sampling became a concept) and electronically treated acoustics of The Sitting Room (1982), to the ground-breaking analogue synth classics of Sleeper In Metropolis (1983) and Our Darkness (1984).
Consistently looking for new ways of expression and communication through the emotion of music and language, Anne seeks to not only challenge herself but her audience also.
Going between extremes of the minimal Scandinavian jazz influences of Unstill Life (1991) to the pastoral and poetic interpretations and translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry on Just After Sunset (1997), to the full-on electronics and sparse acoustics of The Smallest Acts Of Kindness (2008), very few artists have covered such a wide spectrum over such a long and consistent career.
At the end of 2010, Anne Clark released the first chapter of a vibrant and on-going project Past & Future Tense, the first release on her own label, After Hours Productions.
Rather than turning out yet another compilation or collection of back catalogue, she decided, in this special anniversary year to invite young and innovative musicians, producers and DJs to take her material, all her material, not the most obvious numbers and to not just “remix” them but completely re-interpret them.
The result a fresh, exciting and contemporary view by a new generation of an artist who in her turn influenced them and their development in the endless possibilities of electronic music.
In January 2011 Anne contributed an arrangement of the Charles Baudelaire poem Enivrez-Vous (Be Drunk) to the audio book and radio play Die Künstliche Paradiese, (Hörbuch Hamburg/Radio Bremen).
Feel
Anne Clark Lyrics
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Merely time to take your name
Before I take a part of you
And you a piece of me
I rest unassured that it will last for ever
And it goes on hurting all the time
You dress so fine
Strip away 'til it's bare and all used up
My head is burning
A hand graps in searching
From somewhere void in you and me
But it just fumbles through the darkness
Another day comes to another ending
Another kiss seals another goodbye
We'll retrace our steps
Only seperately now
You spoke so enchantingly
Yet you let me smother your words with kisses
Another day comes to another ending
Another kiss seals another goodbye
We'll retrace our steps
Only seperately now
The lyrics to the song Feel by Anne Clark create a sense of loss and longing, with the imagery of gallows representing the loss of innocence. The singer is addressing someone, telling them they want to take a part of them before they take a part of themselves. This could be interpreted in many ways, but it suggests a desire for intimacy or a need for something to hold onto before everything slips away. The singer is uncertain that this feeling will last forever, but the pain continues nonetheless. They long to strip away the outer layers of the other person, to see the real them, but it seems impossible in the darkness.
The second verse of the song has the same sense of loss and longing, with the singer referencing the end of another day and another kiss, hinting at the ending of a relationship. They speak of retracing their steps, but now only separately, indicating that what once was shared is now lost. The third stanza suggests that the other person speaks enchantingly, but the singer is only smothering their words with kisses, indicating a lack of communication or a focus on physical intimacy over emotional connection. The final stanza repeats the refrain of the second, driving home the theme of loss and separation.
Overall, the lyrics to Feel by Anne Clark suggest a longing for intimacy and a sense of loss, with the imagery of gallows and darkness indicating that this may stem from an experience of trauma or grief.
Line by Line Meaning
All around us hang the gallows of lost innocence
We are constantly surrounded by reminders of the innocence lost in our lives
Merely time to take your name
We should seize the moment and get to know each other better
Before I take a part of you
Before we become emotionally involved
And you a piece of me
Before we start sharing ourselves with one another
I rest unassured that it will last for ever
I am not confident that our relationship will endure
And it goes on hurting all the time
The pain of heartbreak persists constantly
You dress so fine
You put on a good appearance, but it hides your true self
But I long to peel away those shells around you
I desire to get to know the real you, beyond the facade
Strip away 'til it's bare and all used up
To get to the core of your being, until there's nothing left to reveal
My head is burning
I am consumed by my thoughts and emotions
A hand graps in searching
I am reaching out for help, for someone to hold onto
From somewhere void in you and me
We both have an emptiness within us
But it just fumbles through the darkness
Our attempts to find comfort and connection are unsuccessful
Another day comes to another ending
Time passes by and our relationship is coming to a close
Another kiss seals another goodbye
We say goodbye with a kiss, but it feels like the end
We'll retrace our steps
We will look back at what we had, and what we lost
Only separately now
But we're moving on alone, without each other
You spoke so enchantingly
You had a way with words that captivated me
Yet you let me smother your words with kisses
But I was too caught up in my emotions to listen to what you were saying
Contributed by Reagan K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@mandarina964
All around us hang the gallows of lost innocence
Merely time to take your name
Before I take a part of you
And you a piece of me
I rest unassured that it will last for ever
And it goes on hurting all the time
You dress so fine
But I long to peel away those shells around you
Strip away 'til it's bare and all used up
My head is burning
A hand graps in searching
From somewhere void in you and me
But it just fumbles through the darkness
Another day comes to another ending
Another kiss seals another goodbye
We'll retrace our steps
Only seperately now
You spoke so enchantingly
Yet you let me smother your words with kisses
@Padulas
Ever heard the album "Amigos em Portugal" by The Durutti Column? The album sounds like a total rip-off of the B-Side of Anne Clark's Changing Places, but it was also released in 1983. So I wonder The Durutti Column was also involved in the making of Changing Places
@haraldbab
Ja , ABSOLUTER HAMMER... (Darf man nur nicht selbstmordgefährdet sein) sorry Hammer gailes Lied !!!!
@psychiater123
😉stimmt