Brunnen-what?!?
In celebration of FX’s newly recovered board, I proudly cut and paste for your reading pleasure: the words as Marty Simon wrote them (getting back to the topic) and MM’s interview about his singing the overdub for the movie!
Veo-aye-oh
Veo-aye-oh Ome-vaah-ray
Veo-aye-rah Jerum-Brunnen-G
Veo-aye-oh Ome-vaah-ray
Veo-aye-rah Jerum-Brunnen-G
Veo-aye-oh Ome-vaah-ray
Veo-aye-rah Jerum-Brunnen-G
Veo-aye-rah Jerum-Brunnen-G
(Here is the ACTUAL translation by Marty Simon)
VAIYO A-O
(Fighters fight the fight)
A HOME VA-YA-RAY
(For their home and their heart)
VAIYO A-RAH
(We fighters will win or die)
JERHUME BRUNNEN-G
(Forever we are the Brunnen G)
“…I am of Russian decent, but truthfully the song was composed without any
specific influence. The toughest part was composing a lyric based on a language
no one had heard before and getting my singers to sing convincingly and with
great passion….words which they did not understand! ”
-The composer, Marty Simon.
Music composed and arranged by Marty Simon. All music performed by Marty Simon. Singers on “Yo-A-O”: Cam Hawkins, Marty Simon, Stan Meisner. Guitar: Bill Beaudoin.
>From an interview with Michael McManus in TV Zone issue 120:
As time starts to run out and McManus is thinking about the early days of the series, it seems a good point to ask about the hauntingly beautiful Brunnen-G chant. “It came from the music guy. Marty [Simon] sang it,” McManus explains. “I think they put a little bit of me singing in, that they got off the actual miked event when we did the scene, so they bleed me in a bit.”
However, McManus is quick to point out that this didn’t go quite to plan either. “That song was one of the first things we got done music-wise and he says ‘Brun-an’, before the first time it was pronounced and ‘Broon-en’ was decided upon, the more German pronunciation of that German word which means ‘found’. It was put down as something to correct later, [but it didn’t] get corrected. There’s another slightly horrific moment at the end of the musical when Marty Simon’s voice is coming out of my lip-sync singing that song and still mispronouncing ‘Broon-en’. Those kind of things, they just make me hit the roof. I’m most neurotic as an actor when I’m watching myself on tv”
Enjoy.
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Help me~~~Lexx HAS eaten my brain! 😛
[This message has been edited by Rust (edited February 18, 2001).]