Lou Reed is dead

I am sad that Lou has passed away.
My feelings toward him have been very complicated during the last two years.
Now it is too late to make up.

Thank you, Lou, for letting me share in your way of music making.
You are welcome for the contributions I was able to make.

Lulu - Lou Reed & Metallica

LULU (the album by Lou Reed & Metallica you all probably heard about) is out now since over a month. Sadly, a pretty bad typo has not been corrected in time: Ulrich Maas plays the cello on two of the titles. Well, there is no cellist by that name - it is me, Ulrich Maiss who performs on that CD.

Maybe future editions will be corrected, so this here is just for the record…

Also, I did not play any string arrangements. I was in the studio with Lou in March recording improvisations. Call it "instant composing" if you like. It was a very creative and intimate process which led to the music for the play "LULU" directed by Robert Wilson.
The material on "Little Dog" and "Frustration" comes from these sessions.

Postscript | December 19, 2011
So, finally, after almost 2 months the spelling of my name has been corrected online…wow!

Pictures from LULU

See Robert Wilson's Flickr album

Einfach zu schön...

Ulrich Maiss aka 2002 Cellectric erstaufführte eine solo Celloversion der Metallmaschine Musik erlaubtes „CelloMachine". Lou Schilf auf CelloMachine (in einem Interview auf CBC, Oktober 2004): „[...], wenn Sie überhaupt sahen, welches Ulrichs das Tun Sie wurde, kennen Sie, öffnen einen Fanclub für ihn. [...] Ist es wie eine Felsenannäherung zum Cello - wenn Sie an den Cello als Guitarre mit einem Rückgespräch dachten: weg von Ihnen gehen Sie! „

Word lingo Übersetzung eines Texts über Lou Reed und meine Version "CelloMachine" seiner legendären Metal Machine Music

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