Ute says of “Between Yesterday and Tomorrow:
This journey 'between yesterday and tomorrow' through time and places in the world is also a journey through my heart. It is a collection of memories, impressions, moments of joy, but also vulnerable moments of doubt and outrage. It moves between clearness and painful confusion, hope and despair about world issues but always wants to stay poetic in its thought and language.
Why I am telling these stories... and not others... I could have told a hundred different stories, yet at the moment in time, it was an impulsive, intuitive decision to focus on this selection of stories. The songs felt like a medication, which searches and finds various inflammation in the body of the world and in the body of life, trying to treat them poetically and positively.
But the wheel of our histories keeps spinning and some events make us stronger, some make us weaker on our journeys between yesterday and tomorrow
The booklet cover art is a cryptic picture, a collage of parts of the East Side Gallery (on the Berlin Wall), some faces are taken out of my paintings, ('War' and 'Rue Pigalle') and the actual face is a brushworked photograph. It shows a journey between yesterday and tomorrow. It is meant to trigger your thoughts... please and displease, and not be an obvious and glamorous cover.
Hope you enjoy the ride!
Ute
All the songs were written by Ute, and published by Lemper Music Company (ASCAP) Administered by Bug, except on the US version, track 6 'La Mémoire et la Mer' written by Léo Ferré, published by Matthieu Ferré & Cie. and on the European version, track 11 (the Epilog) published by Lambert's Shine Music.
The album was produced by Ute Lemper & Todd Turkisher, with co-production by Werner "Vana" Gierig on 'Blood and Feathers', 'Luna', 'Here Is Love' and 'La Mémoire et la Mer'.
The engineer was Dave Swanson at Toddstudio, NYC, with mixing by Kevin Killen at Sevonay Sound, except 'La Mémoire et la Mer' which was mixed by Dave Swanson. Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering. The strings were recorded by Nic Hard at Loho studio & Kampo studio.
The CD design and artwork was created by Charl Kroeger, utilizing some beautiful new photographs of Ute taken by Fran Janik and Brigitte Dummer.
