Yelka - Krieg & FerienAn expressionist poem from 1911 at the head of a press release in 2023? Did some ChatGPT make that up? Hardly. Jakob van Hoddis' poetry moved YELKA guitarist Daniel Meteo a lot as a young person and came to mind during the recording of "Krieg & Ferien", that briefly translates into "War & Ease", the third YELKA album this year. And so the poem became the title for the ten minute closing piece: an improvised one take funk jam with an uncertain outcome.

Everything about him captivates me: the tormented human being

far from denying it

" which broke into the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100

I think Matt's Grandad was right

Both Laura Netzel and Valborg Aulin were accomplished pianists

'60s and '70s in multiple musical genres - country

Features one of the most memorable '80s metal anthems with that famous call-and-response chorus

right on time

If you feel lonely and secluded

unabashedly romantic outlook persists in spite of that: this is a paean to the spell that love puts us all under at one point or another

Dating from the following generation

There is the Free inspired 'So Sad' and 'Men Of Such Opinion' (Simon's favourite self-written lyric)