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October 17th, 2008
Dear fans,
This week I have been touring across Germany
to do interviews. The first question of the journalists always seems to
be: “Helmut, you have been doing Classics and Africa and Latino and all
these different things, now you’re doing a swing album. Why?” So, that is
fun, it is like: been skiing and broken a leg, and now I have to tell
everyone over and over again how it happened.
One journalist was
so nice to mention that I have a very cute French accent in speaking
German. So, I had to explain that I am actually from the Dutch-speaking
part of Belgium.
And in Dresden, while I was talking to a bum with
a barrel organ in the street, a photographer took a picture. That man got
angry, we should pay him before even thinking of using this picture, he
said. Well, I wish him good luck with his barrel organ, since music
soothes the moral.
As you see, everything is going smoothly so
far. Of course, it’s a lot of interviews. Even in the car, driving from
one city to another I am on the phone talking to journalists. For live
radio-programs we stop aside of the road to have a better connection and
sound, and then I get nervous, because of all the time we may lose. But
everything is well organised and Omer is driving. Omer always stays cool.
Thanks to him, we have always been on time. Omer is a man with no
problems. He only has solutions, he says.
Lotti love
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Helmut
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