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The seven starchateers have already spent half their lives on tour together, playing together all over the world, lived in an old hotel on the Appenzell country side and built their own music club. This shows: the groove of this crew is right. You can hear and see it wherever they show up, from the craziest basement shack to fancy jazz clubs to the big festivals of Montreux, Bangkok or Bangladesh.
starch plays groove music. In its own unmistakable way. Imaginative and without stylistic or geographical boundaries. The choruses reflect the lightness of being on the Australian beach. The instrumental solos spray the color-swelling 24 hour vibration of Asian cities. The raps and grooves breathe the coolness of European urbanity. Polyglot Funk, which takes the hearts of the public by storm in all over the world.
lyrics
Life is good
Life is real
Life is beautiful
Life is beautiful
Life is good
Life is real
Life is beautiful
Remember when we met the first time
Sweet sixteen
I was keen
Bitter sweet taste
So fresh, so unforeseen
You in that golden dress
White hat, white glasses
Pulling on a cigarette
In this hot summer night under the tree
A Teardrop sparkled on your cheek
And it was all over for me
You made me go crazy
Time passing by like ecstasy
She calmed my thoughts down easily
Babygirl had all the right weaponry
Morning after I still could smell your perfume on my pillow
In every fiber of my body you were present
Bumping through my veins from head to toe
I just dropped another pill – oh!
And let it go
And let it go
Life is good
Life is pure
Life is beautiful
Now we’re sitting at this table
we’ve been sitting here a lot before
On a weekday after work
Knew I will meet you here for sure
Making up stories, telling lies
facing the truth, being mean, being nice
You’re neat and chill on ice
For you I always paid the price
Sometimes with friends
Sometimes just you and me
I thought we were happy
You were looking after me
But then you changed your mind immediately
When I got too close to you
In absence of a referee
Thought I needed you to be alive and always on the run
Thought I needed you to be real
Without you there’s no fun
Without you life’s undone
Thought I needed you just to be someone
No rules in this game
And I lost it each and every time
Always the same
Thought that finally we’ll be fine
For the real beauty I was blind
I was colorblind
Life is good
Life is pure
Life is real
Life is beautiful
Life is beautiful
Of course I saw you with the other guys
acting the same
playing your game
I was the lonely one you drove insane
But not the only one who knew your name
But I couldn’t take my hands of you
I couldn’t take my hands off you
We were young and wild
And we sang our songs all night
Acted like a child
As long as you were by my side
I smiled
But the longer it lasted
The worse it got
I met you more than my girlfriend
I held you in my arms
In chains, I changed a lot
I hurt my friends, my love, my family
I was cheating myself
Just to have you close to me
Wanted to stay up all night
Wanted to stay by your side
Counting the stars
Waiting for the sun to rise
Sleeping in your arms
Looking in your golden eyes
One sip for life
One sip for Rock’n’Roll
One sip to destroy the box and get out of this rabbit hole
One sip to walk the line
One sip to get out of this role
One sip to the lord who turns this shit into gold
Two sips for the moments you gave me joy
Three sips for the love
Another one for freedom and the crying doves
I could hear the sirens coming
You’re not my god
You’re just a temporary shot
One more for the stars in the sky
But in the end you are just an empty bottle trapping flies
Just an empty bottle trapping flies
Life is good
Life is pure
Life is beautiful
Without you
Without you
Life is good
Life is pure
Life is real
Without you
Without you
credits
from Less Monday - The Tuscany Session,
released June 25, 2018
Simon Winiger – Vocals, Bass
Christian "Raxx" Käufeler – Vocals, Rap, Saxophone, Flute
Andreas Tschopp – Trombone
Pascal Nägeli – Trumpet
Benjamin Stalder – Guitar
Manuel Winiger – Keys
Kay Rauber – Drums, Percussion
Recorded and mixed by Andrea Ciacchini at SAM Studios, Lari, Italy
Mastered by Peter Hewitt-Dutton at Metropolis Studios, London, England
Additional Vocal Recordings by Marc Sway at Nuala Studios, Pfaffhausen, Switzerland
Artwork by Renate Salzmann and Philippe Gertsch, Bern, Switzerland
starch spielt Groovemusik. Auf eigene unverkennbare Weise. Ideenreich und ohne stilistische oder geografische Grenzen. Die
Instrumentalsoli versprühen das farbüberquellende 24-stündige Vibrieren Asiatischer Grossstädte. Die Raps und Grooves atmen die Coolness Europäischer Urbanität. Polyglotter Funk, der die Herzen des Publikums in aller Herren Länder im Sturm erobert....more
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