Jo Jea

Song

Running time

1:21 Minutes

Time of origin and release

2000 (time of origin, released on the album "[ampf]" by Christian Ide Hintze, 2000)

Music, lyrics and production

Music: Ide Hintze
Lyrics: Falco, Ide Hintze
Producer: Ide Hintze

About the song

Christian Ide Hintze, Viennese lyricist, action artist, performance and multimedia poet, produced this sampling song in 1989, shortly after meeting Falco. To recordings of Falco’s voice from his telephone answering machine, Hintze mixed in music written by himself.

It is a spherical number without drums, the samples are added to a long drawn out sound.

Falco’s voice ("Yeah", "Na, ich bin’s nur") is often repeated, more content is not to be found here.

Created in 1991, the number was finally released in 2000 on the album "Ampf" by Christian Ide Hintze.

One of the shortest and most insubstantial of these sampling songs by Hintze, no Falco fan is likely to have listened to this number more than once. It’s an experiment, nothing more and nothing less, you can’t expect a classic song here.

Lyrics

Mh, mh
Yeah
Mh, mh
Yeah
Mh, mh
Yeah

Na, ich bin’s nur
Yeah
Mh, mh
Na, ich bin’s nur
Yeah

Mh, mh
Na, ich bin’s nur
Yeah
Mh, mh
Na, ich bin’s nur
Yeah

Mh, mh
Yeah

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

The samples with Falco’s voice come from mini-cassette recordings that Ide Hintzes answering machine made of Falco’s telephone messages in 1991.

My text version is based on the text supplements of the official releases (booklet, inlay, cover etc.), if available. However, all lyrics were tapped and corrected according to the sung word. For songs where no lyric supplements are available, my version is based solely on the sung word or also on lyrics circulating on the Internet. Text passages sung in dialect are in moderate transliteration. Spelling errors, both German and English, were corrected in glaring cases. The spelling is based partly on the spelling valid at the time (text supplements), partly on the new spelling (own interceptions). Punctuation marks have generally been omitted. I am grateful for any suggestions for improvement.