Listening to the sound of los hermanos patchekos, the first question coming… Read Full Bio ↴Listening to the sound of los hermanos patchekos, the first question coming to your mind might be: what the hell are they doing there? The music of this eleven-piece-orchestra is rattling and rumbling, sometime it's dragging along, sometimes it races ahead frantically, always defying your expectation of what might be ahead. You will hear mediterranean melodies, carribean sounds, gstanzls from lower bavaria (home to both hornists, who are also part of a very traditional Bavarian Humpah-outfit called 'Eichberg Musi'), desert pop, minimal music played by far too many instruments, country, swing, tango, and then welcome to the jungle, baby. To name but a few stations on this musical voyage.

You're not entirely wrong if you call it ethnic-, world- or folk-music, but they just won't stick to one kind. Others might think that the label punk had to be in their somewhere. Some hermanos would heartily agree, others would call you a fool, no matter what label you put on them. And then they'd probably put a drink in your hand. They just pick up the good pieces wherever they find them, forming a sort of globalistic-trash-folk-extravaganza in the process.

But what's so terribly exciting about a band playing tango in 2003, you might ask. Nothing much, except the fact that you probably have never heard anyone do it the way they do it. While Senor G.Rag, the bandleader, is picking a precious vintage jazzguitar, Mr. Zelig, the drummer, is banging away on a pile of assorted trash, buckets, ashtrays and the like, thus producing rhythmic patterns any breakbeat programmer would be jealous of. Los hermanos believe that musical instruments, just like musical ideas, can be found anywhere: junkyards, toystores, music-houses, too, of corse. Musique concréte, if you will, in itself another piece of lost-and-found.
To get to the point: A very strange band is practicing musical originality with a rarely seen matter-of-factness. G.Rag y los Hermanos Patchekos is not about musical perfection or brilliant musicianship, although they know pretty well what they are doing - at least most of the time. Hornist Alois Schmelz would deserve to be called 'The Bavarian Miles Davies', that's how brilliant he is. Instead his fellow musicians call him 'Die Sau' (The Pig) because the beauty of his play can make you cry. They know their blues, certainly. But a lot more often los hermanos will make you laugh. And that's what it's really all about (besides proving that you can sing in a foreign language even if you can't speak it). Their prime directive is a very old and simple one: to let their audience feel alive and have a good time.

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G.Rag y Los Hermanos Patchekos Lyrics

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I'll be home for Christmas
You can plan on me
Won't you please
Please have some mistletoe
And presents on the tree

Christmas eve will find it will find me
Where the love light gleams

I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

Christmas eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
Ooh, I'll be home for Christmas

(I'm dreaming of a Christmas)
If only in my dreams

Overall Meaning

These lyrics simply reflect the sentimentality and longing felt around the holidays, particularly Christmas. The song speaks to the desire to be with loved ones during this time of year, even if it's only in one's dreams. The lyrics outline a wishful journey, with a desire to be reunited with family and friends, to share in the joy and traditions of the season, and to simply find comfort and peace. The use of mistletoe and presents on the tree are classic symbols of the season, further reinforcing the sense of longing and nostalgia that these lyrics evoke.

Line by Line Meaning

I'll be home for Christmas
I will return to my family's home for Christmas

You can plan on me
You can count on me to be there

Won't you please
Would you kindly

Please have some mistletoe
Please hang mistletoe for us to share romantic moments

And presents on the tree
Also, please put gifts under the Christmas tree

Christmas eve will find it will find me
On Christmas Eve, I will be somewhere special

Where the love light gleams
A place where love can be felt and seen

I'll be home for Christmas
I'll return to my family's home for Christmas

If only in my dreams
Even if I can't physically be there, I'll be there in my thoughts and dreams

Christmas eve will find me
On Christmas Eve, I will be somewhere special

Where the love light gleams
A place where love can be felt and seen

Ooh, I'll be home for Christmas
Oh, I'll really be home for Christmas

(I'm dreaming of a Christmas)
(I'm imagining a perfect Christmas)

If only in my dreams
Even if I can't physically be there, I'll be there in my thoughts and dreams

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, CARLIN AMERICA INC
Written by: BUCK RAM, KIM GANNON, WALTER KENT

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