
I remember getting my copy of Daniel Bongart’s last disc ‘Little Bird’ very succinctly because it was at the Poppelsorfer Street Festival in 2019 – an evening I look back on with happiness and sadness. Seeing my favourite Bonn cover-band Sunny Skies for the last time and hearing founder Rope Schmitz talk with trepidation of an impending hospital visit that he would not survive. There is a picture too on the report I did of that evening’s concert that shows Daniel singing as a part of the band Winterfeld to a smiling white-haired lady with a video camera named Christa who is also no longer with us. I mention all this because I have the same mixed emotions after listening to the lyrics from the songs on Daniel’s new disc – sadness at loss, and happiness at what was, and at what has survived.
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