Hi everyone - I'm trying to upgrade my dialect skills and have been listening to Schnitzelbängg and songs like Tubel Trophy . I like to play them on repeat and try to sing along, to get my words up to speed. Does anyone have any text-heavy songs that they can recommend? Songs in Basler dialect would be especially good. Thanks!
Hi
I am newbie to the language and I trying out these two: check youtube
lo&leduc update 3.0 album
And
Beatrice egli
I think they are Barn dialect but I have a clue. I need help to get the language skills off the ground
May I suggest some good old school Swiss Hip Hop? =)
Basel:
- Black Tiger & MC Rony
- TAFS
- Taz
- Amen
Züri:
- paar@ohrä
- Bligg'n'Lexx
- Samurai
- Skor (not that old school, but still...)
Bern:
- Chlyklass (Greis, Wurzel 5, PVP, Baze)
- Tommy Vercetti
Just to name a few.
For good Swiss newcomers check out Best of Demotapeclinic. A lot of songs are in English, but some are Swiss German! http://www.m4music.ch/de/demotape-clinic/cd
Don't overlook the great Mani Matter !
He's almost like a national hero. Great textwriter. His songs have a little place in the heart of near everyone in german speaking CH...
Super cool! Danke. U would not by chance know Switzerduutch school for English speakers in basel so I could understand the lyrics.
Regarding Mani matter: I see that lo and leduc give reference to him in their video. Barn connection....
lo&leduc warum düet dir so fröhlech
here's a site with all or most of Mani Matter's song texts
Here's a site with description and an English translation of one of his most famous songs,
Start with that one. genious, IMHO.
there's some other links on there you'll find useful, too.
Have you checked out this site yet http://www.podclub.ch/sendungen/typisch-helene-ch-d?
One of the most famous Swiss Songs is 'Dr Schacher Seppli' by Ruedi Rymann
... and here another classic in Berndeutsch
Cheers pilatus1 et al!
A good Swiss german app I need....and I think Iam on my way.
Finally it happened! The "Berner" moved out of the cave into a " BARN "
Can't wait to tell this to "Gotfried" und "Walter"my berner friend
René Fisch: Basel
My wife has a book by Mani Matter, Sudelhefte Rumpelbuch - a collection of his writings. I just opened it up and found this:
̈Wenn man sich überlegt, dass die Mona Lisa mit lauter einzelnen Pinselstrichen gemalt wurde...."
There is meaning in those words.....however is large brush-strokes the pathway to a Mona Lisa...or was refinement of large brush-strokes to way to Mona Lisa. What was manni referring to?
Dr Eskimo, Mani Matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYhNxzC2nhU
Kennet ihr das Gschichtli scho
Do you know the little story yet
Vo däm armen Eskimo
of the poor Eskimo
Wo in Grönland einisch so
where in Greenland once so
Trurig isch um ds Läbe cho
sadly lost his life
Är het dank em Radio
He had thanks for the radio
Fröid ar Musig übercho
excited that music came over it
Und het tänkt das chan i o
And had thought "I can do that, too"
So isch är i ds'unglück cho
and so his bad luck came.
Nämlech är het sech für zwo
Namely, he had for two
Fläsche Läbertran es no
bottles of fish oil
Guet erhaltes Cembalo
A good condition harpsichord
Gchouft und hets i d'Höli gno
bought, and took it into the cave.
Doch won är fortissimo
But when he strongly
Gspilt het uf sym Cembalo
had played on his harpsichord
Isch en Ysbär ynecho
Came a polar bear inside
Het ne zwüsche d'Chralle gno
and took him between his claws.
Kunscht isch geng es Risiko
Art is always a risk,
So isch är um ds Läbe cho
that's how he lost his life.
Und ihr gseht d'Moral dervo
and you see the moral then-
Choufet nie es Cembalo
never buy a harpsichord
Süsch geits öich grad äbeso
or the same will happen to you
Wi däm armen Eskimo
like the poor eskimo
Wo in Grönland einisch so
where once in Greenland so
Truurig isch um ds Läbe cho
sadly lost his life.
His words are like single brushstrokes in a painting. The sentence does not need to be complete. How did DaVinci decide when enough was enough? When he had gotten his point across...
This is the beauty of Mani Matter's style. His songs are like funny little kid's songs but each one has a philosophical implication as well. Instead of explaining it all, he just sets the listener up to come to a conclusion on their own. The genius lies in the simplicity (or complexity, depending how you look at it) of it all.
Not sure what Matter war referring to, haven't read the book. Notwithstanding that, think of his lyrics... His songs aren't really about what they are about, they are filled with very small details in the foreground, but there is usually a whole metaphorical background that doesn't get mentioned explicitly. Think of "Ir Ysebahn", or "William Tell", both are about the human condition (the latter particularily in a small Swiss Village), without directly mentioning either. Masterful.
Very true. We all grow up with Mani Matter's songs.
My personal favourites are:
... and the 'Eskimo' of course