Needles & Grooves AotM /// Vol. 25 - July 2021 // Dota - Kaleko
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Jan
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That was a problem with choosing a German record, but the bandcamp and label have decent shipping rates of 10€ for intl shipping, so it should come to around 50cad. I'll provide links later. I know that is not cheap and I can understand if that keeps people from buying. Maybe someone will find another link for can or us$71.71 on Canadian Amazon
Ericj32
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Updated: still working on the rest of the pictures in clue #12 though....
Clue #1: Enrico Caruso's "Vesti La Giubba" was the #1 song (according to playback.fm) the day Mascha Kaléko was born.
Clue #2: Barry Manilow's "Mandy" was the #1 song the day Mascha Kaléko died.
Clue #3: The Knack's "My Sharona" was the #1 song when Dota Kehr was born on September, 14 1979.
Clue #4: Dota started out as a street performer in public markets?
Clue #5: Dota studied medicine in Berlin.
Clue #6: according to Wikipedia, one of Dota Kehr's babsitter's left behind a cassette of Ellis & Tom, and she fell in love with South American music
Clue #7: I think the label is based in Kreuzberg - I found this address on the label's website: Wrangelstr. 84, 10997 Berlin - which appears to be in Kreuzberg
Clue #8: Album is sung entirely in German
Clue #9: That logo appears on the back of the album but I can't find it anywhere else on the internet. The label is Kleingeldprinzessin, and I don't see it on the label's website, but maybe I'm missing something haha
Clue #10: Mascha Kaléko was a German poet and all of the lyrics on this album are credited to her!
Clue #11: Discogs lists 3 variants: 1 LP release and 2 CD releases
Clue #12: The last image is Chemjo Vinaver, who was married to Mascha Kaléko.
Bonus clue: Dota was born in 1979.
Clue #1: Enrico Caruso's "Vesti La Giubba" was the #1 song (according to playback.fm) the day Mascha Kaléko was born.
Clue #2: Barry Manilow's "Mandy" was the #1 song the day Mascha Kaléko died.
Clue #3: The Knack's "My Sharona" was the #1 song when Dota Kehr was born on September, 14 1979.
Clue #4: Dota started out as a street performer in public markets?
Clue #5: Dota studied medicine in Berlin.
Clue #6: according to Wikipedia, one of Dota Kehr's babsitter's left behind a cassette of Ellis & Tom, and she fell in love with South American music
Clue #7: I think the label is based in Kreuzberg - I found this address on the label's website: Wrangelstr. 84, 10997 Berlin - which appears to be in Kreuzberg
Clue #8: Album is sung entirely in German
Clue #9: That logo appears on the back of the album but I can't find it anywhere else on the internet. The label is Kleingeldprinzessin, and I don't see it on the label's website, but maybe I'm missing something haha
Clue #10: Mascha Kaléko was a German poet and all of the lyrics on this album are credited to her!
Clue #11: Discogs lists 3 variants: 1 LP release and 2 CD releases
Clue #12: The last image is Chemjo Vinaver, who was married to Mascha Kaléko.
Bonus clue: Dota was born in 1979.
avecigrec
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To be honest, it'll likely be a couple of months before I can pick it up anyway, so I'll be streaming along with y'all from my phone in the meanwhile.
Ericj32
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The second to last image in clue #12 is Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche) which might be the same church referenced in the title of the 7th track on the album: "Julinacht An Der Gedächtniskirche".
EDIT: Mascha Kaléko's husband Chemjo Vinaver, who is pictures in the last image in clue #12 is mentioned in the title of the 8th track on the album: "Für Chemjo Zu Pessach 1944".
the second image in clue#12 (the emotions from "Inside Out") may be a reference to the 12th song on the album, "Kompliziertes Innenleben" which translates in English to "complicated inner workings"?
EDIT: Mascha Kaléko's husband Chemjo Vinaver, who is pictures in the last image in clue #12 is mentioned in the title of the 8th track on the album: "Für Chemjo Zu Pessach 1944".
the second image in clue#12 (the emotions from "Inside Out") may be a reference to the 12th song on the album, "Kompliziertes Innenleben" which translates in English to "complicated inner workings"?
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Souljacker
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Dota! Great pick! 
I had Kaleko in my hands just yesterday but went on to buy her new album Wir rufen dich, Galaktika.
So I guess another purchase is due now
I had Kaleko in my hands just yesterday but went on to buy her new album Wir rufen dich, Galaktika.
So I guess another purchase is due now
Skalap
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Good job! Considering clue #9:
DOTA Tickets • Tickets für alle DOTA Konzerte im offiziellen Ticketshop
DOTA Tickets ➤ Keine Gefahr Tour ➤ Jetzt Tickets im offiziellen DOTA Ticketshop kaufen
tickets.kleingeldprinzessin.de
Jan
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The first two in 12 are probably hard to solve for non-germans.
There are two songs that translate as " a supposedly beautiful death" and " complicated inner life"
bfly
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hmmm first song is about death?
I think the image is from Meet Joe Black, a movie where Brad Pitt's character dies.
Jan
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He does not die , he is Death. " a supposedly handsome/beautiful death" which is what " ein sogenannter schöner tod" translates as
bfly
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that is true, but I have a feeling that most people haven't seen it and was avoiding spoilers for a movie that is decades old for some reason
death comes to the living as Brad Pitt, and the characters negotiate terms. that accident scene is infamous though.excellent clue, I got death from the song but not that good of a translation.
Poly-Rythmo
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It's pretty cheap on JPC and I rate them as the fastest (generally) in terms of postage etc Dota: Kaléko (2 LPs) – jpc
Ericj32
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I spent a lot of time going through online lists of German poets and trying to find connections on Discogs, haha. I remember once I found the Chemjo Vinaver clue and searched for that, Mascha Kaléko’s name was all over the search results, but I don’t think I saw that she was a poet and I incorrectly assumed that if a living artist was making songs based on poems that it would have to be a pretty famous poet in one of those lists. Happy that I was wrong though, haha!
It seems really odd, though, for example that Kaléko isn’t even listed in a fairly thorough list like this: List of German-language poets - Wikipedia
Excited to learn more about her and her poems, though, and also to explore Dota’s music.
It seems really odd, though, for example that Kaléko isn’t even listed in a fairly thorough list like this: List of German-language poets - Wikipedia
Excited to learn more about her and her poems, though, and also to explore Dota’s music.
Jan
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I'll try to give an introduction to both dota and mascha kaleko in my write up, but that'll take a little more time.i'll also try to provide some lyric translations to english.
Also, pm me your details and you'll get two sigbed dota gatefold double lps ( kaleko and her latest album that came out last week) as well as a small book i found about mascha kalekos poems with English translations, congratulations on solving this.
Jan
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They also have a pretty cool exclusive pressing of her newest record
Dota: Wir rufen dich, Galaktika (Limited Edition) (Lilafarbenes Vinyl) (+ handsignierter Autogrammkarte & Songbook A5) (exklusiv für jpc!) (2 LPs) – jpc
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