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"Lost in Communication" is the result of a collaborative experiment by two restless Swiss songwriters. While release and tour logic came to a halt during the pandemic, Daniela Weinmann and Simon Borer took it upon themselves to rethink, challenge and expand their own songwriting routine. Both had been used to writing alone until then. But the first time they met, a song was created together - and in the weeks to come, the two ran an actual songwriting lab. They tried different writing techniques and languages and soon had a collection of song sketches, stimulating conflicts and open questions.

The exploration continued even as the two artists set out to producing the songs; so, they set out to combine the disparate sound worlds of their solo projects into an organic whole. Their curiosity for the format of the classic duet resulted in three love songs that are set in different scenarios. "Self-Checkout" tells what can happen when you suddenly run into your long forgotten first love in the supermarket and notice that there are Pampers in your former lover’s shopping cart, while you are overrun by memories of youth. The slow, dreamy, viscous song "Lost in Communication" describes a first date during which the protagonists don't quite know how to make the leap from online dating into the three-dimensional world. "Alexander", a lascivious-funky hymn including pink kimono and haikus on the veranda, is dedicated to a pool party acquaintance.

In addition, "Alle deine Träume" is a song full of German Angst - grappling with his own insignificance in the commuter traffic jam inside his e-car, the protagonist finally drowns all worries in his binge-watching habit, watching series in a house lit only by a lava lamp. On the EP's most experimental track "Im Winter Simmer Immer", the two artists tell each other secrets from their youth and share core memories that led them to become musicians.

And because the two artists tend to get indulged in lengthy discussions about the Swiss cultural landscape in general and about songwriting, they decided to exchange ideas with other colleagues. This is how "Songs und so", a podcast about current songwriting in Switzerland, was born. Its first season has been released in January and February 2023. It aspires to get to the bottom of the craft and process of songwriting in detailed conversations with guests like Evelinn Trouble, Manuel Gagneux (Zeal & Ardor) or Leoni Leoni.

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Im Winter simmer immer is Hallebad
Mir sind in McDonalds gange
Go es Goggi trinke

Ich glaub es hät zwöi Franke koschtet
Mir sind mitem Bus
Mitem Velo nach Spreitebach gfahre

Vo Butisholz uf Nottwil gfahre
Is Paraplegikerzentrum
Und hät det Passföteli gmacht

Mir sind öppe ölfi gsi und
Seinzige wo eus interessiert hät isch
Mit de andere zschnorre

Nochär hämmer meischtens no chli chönne
Chrömle dusse am Kiosk

Irgendwo häts amigs denn au no
So en Grenzstei
Zwüsched em Kanton Aargau und
Em Kanton Züri gha

Später bini mol glaub zwöi Johr lang
Heimlich verliebt gsi id Tochter
Vo mim Mathilehrer
Ich bin mega verliebt gsi aber
Ich ha nöd recht gwüsst
Wie me das eigentlich aspricht

Und ähm,
Ich glaub ich has niemerem gseit

Immer vor dere Chorprob
Womer so mega blödi Lieder gsunge händ
So wie «Highway» vo Mäsh
Hämmer ufem chline Ghettoblaster
Im Chilegmeindhus zäme Musig glost
Vode PJ Harvey zum Bispil
Oder «OK Computer»

Und nochhär han ich ihre denn
Irgendeinisch es Email gschribe

Und denn hät sie gseit,
Dass sie i öpper andersch verliebt isch
Aber dass es ihri fründinne alli
Mega herzig gfunde händ

Und er hät sone erbchrankheit gha
Wo mis Mami gseit het
Dass mer das nöd überlebt,
Dass mer villicht höchschtens zwänzgi wird

Und ähm,
Mir händ denn zäme e band gründet und

I üsem Bandrum häts no anderi Nochbare gha
Das sind so füf Johr, sächs Johr älteri
Hip-Hopper gsi, die händ det eifach inegweedet

Und mir eigentlich au

Mir händ Bilder vom HR Giger ufgänkt
Und irgendwänn hät mer das ganze
Fabrikgelände abgrisse und dänn…
Sind det Wohnige anecho

Und nocheme Wiili hemmer so afo jamme
Und eigeti Idee irgendwie entwickle

Und irgendwie ischs denn eifach so klar gsi
Dass ich denn singe

Und ich weiss no am Obe noch de Schuel
De bini so zu mim Mami und ha gseit
«Lueg ich ha en Song gschribe»
Und ich han en ihre vorgspilt
Und woni fertig gsi bin hani gmerkt dass sie brüelet

Bini chli verwirrt gsi
Und mir hend aber wie nid drüber gret

Sind au mal zäme anes Konzert gange
Im Hallestadion
Hämmer au so en Moment gha zäme irgendwie

Händ überleit öb das okay isch oder nöd
Wemmer sich sLäbe nimmt

Und denn hämmer eigentlich abgmacht
Dass mer eus zäme sLäbe nemed
Wänns zu blöd wird

Und denn simmer det so
Am Hauptbahnhof am Bode gläge
Bis d’Security cho isch und eus weggschickt hät

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from Lost In Communication, released May 5, 2023

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