Collaborative project by ToTarTu featuring Street Musician Helmut, alias Klavier Helmut.
ToTarTu is on a collaborative project to record the street musicians he finds in the city of Berlin.
Alas, a piano in the street…was this a trick or a figment of the imagination or was there really a pianist playing in Kottbusser Damm near the canal?
Meet Helmut.
And his piano on wheels that he moves around the streets of Berlin during summer when “the birds are singing and the living is easy”, as written by George Gershwin in the aria “Summertime”.
After approaching Helmut and discussing ToTarTu’s music project, we recorded.
The recording went for five minutes and could of continued as Helmut was improvising and was moving to and back from certain songs and melodies.
As such, ToTarTu edited the version to be just over 2 minutes.
Some strings and new sounds were added.
Towards the end of the recording a pull between the sounds of the ivories and the electronic manifests. The introduction of the electronic in the piece is an attempt to show the old manifesting into the new.
Unfortunately, Helmut does not have a website.
However, he has had many recordings and interviews done and his story can be found when searching for Klavier Helmut on the Internet.
We look forward to seeing and hearing this Legend again this Summer!!
* Disclaimer – all work produced and posted is done so on an artistic basis and is there for the promotion of artists and musicians alike.