Heimatlieder
by Lichten*berg
Music of Germany’s migrant workers revived in new compilations.
Mark Terkessidis, one of the curators of the Heimatlieder project, remembers tracking down a Vietnamese workers’ choir at the Dong Xuan supermarket in the Lichtenberg area of Berlin. “Our jaws just dropped. There’s a real lack of genuine feelings in modern music, but these songs had a really raw emotional edge.”
New German Ethnic Music-Immigrant’s songs from Germany electronically reworked