To The Other Side Of The Microphone The Snows Of New York

Ruth Orenstrat
Düsseldorf, Germany
Heike Meyhoff
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Heike Henke
Melle, Germany
Daniela Braun
Münster, Germany
Marietta Hülsken
Münster, Germany
Astrid Nolde-Gallasch
Bocholt, Germany
Rüdiger Hanke
Münster, Germany

We recorded this song during the "German recording session" on August 12, 2000 in one take in Astrid's living-room in Bocholt, Germany. On this day seven friends from the mailing list got together to make music. We had never played together before, and after 8 hours of practicing we were quite happy about the result of three songs recorded. One of them was The Snows Of York, which we chose because it brings back great memories of CdeB listmember gatherings in Bonn 1998 and Cologne 1999!
Ruth sings the first verse, Heike M. the 2nd, Heike H. the 3rd and Dani the 4th. The violin is played by Marietta, and the piano is played by Astrid. Daniela also plays the bongos. Rüdiger certainly is the world's most patient sound engineer!
The other two songs we recorded together were The Same Sun and Summer Rain .