Koursh
Told at a live listening session
This kind of music is common in my country. It is sad, it is about someone which is not good for you. It is begging for being. It makes a man really weak but we like it. For us it means love. When we want someone with all of our heart. We want to give all what we have. When the night comes and I sit in my bed and I look outside of my window, I like to hear this music. He sings but for me it is a big silence.
How did this story make you feel?
“That was during my most carefree time as a student. We were in Yugoslavia. We were sitting by the sea and this song was playing. I was 22 or 23 years old. That was in the late 1960s. I was with two acquaintances, one was with his wife and the other was my dentist at the time, who”
“I really love this song because whenever I hear this song I feel like I’m in a different time zone or like a word. I mean I feel like I’m really escaping a word, like real word. And imagining and floating in the air and catching a cloud. I don’t know, some kind of that feeling. A”
“This is a childhood memory. For as long as I can remember, we have always listened to this song together on Christmas Day. And I always had it in my head when I cycled or walked alone in the countryside, especially in winter. When the winter air blew in my face, I imagined I was ”
“When I hear this song, I get goose bumps and could start crying. That’s why I can’t listen to it very often. It was the favourite song of my friend Marius, who sadly died suddenly and far too young. I heard the song for the first time at his funeral. It was a cold winter’s day an”
“That was probably one of the best times, back in my youth when I was about 25 years old. Before I started working. I met two guys at the Strand Cafe in Fürth. And I had my keyboard up in my parents’ attic. So I invited the two guys over... with their two weird keyboards. And we s”
“When I listen to this, it reminds me of South Korean culture (not a culture, but a overall situation that 20s faces while working or finding a job). This lyrics are about young generation living on unstable and precarious ground. Facing harsh competition, insecure jobs, rising li”
