Helreich (song)
Helreich is a song written and performed by the Sokokan band Tenji Sa Reta released in 7690. The song was originally used in an episode of the TV series MEPA-12X and as such released on a soundtrack album in Sokoku. To celebrate the third season of the series, an international release "Unsafe at any speed" was released in about two dozen countries around the world, including this song. It was released as a single in Vittmark where it reached #2 in the sales charge. In Sokoku it ony reached #8. Both were unique results, since it was the highest charting song from any band from Sokoku in Vittmark today, and the only song on Stoldic that ever made the sales list in Sokoku.
Background
The band Tenji Sa Reta is a cultural project based in Kyusigai but backed by the Kakuri community. They were asked to write a song for the popular TV-series MEPA-12X, which came recording and releasing support from the Cultural Secretariat.
Composition and recording
The basic outline of the song was composed by bass player Nagare Miko and guitarist Atarashi Kumo, as a result of a jam session between the two. Drummer Taki Ando completed the music with bombastic synthesizer parts. The melody for the lyrics was written by Ando and vocalist Matsunoki Aya, but part of the lyrics were written by external parts since none of the band members manages Stoldic.
The song is an unusual one for this hard rock punk band, both in style and use of language. It was Aya's idea to do a large part of the lyrics in Stoldic since that was the language used by the settlers in the TV-series. She wanted to convey an overly nostalgic and evenly much misplaced nostalgia among the fictional colonists with the music fitting the alien setting.
A demo for the song was recorded in the basement studio of Hotel Exemplar Mirei, with Nubugaru MP Sven Tömse as guest vocalist. His appearance was only meant for the demo version, but in the end it was this demo version that got released.
Lyrics
You cried a lot, separated in spirit, but united in heart
We have been together for a very long time
But your breath is cold
The heart is on fire
Wanting to love and condemn you
Helreich, your breath is cold
So young and yet so old
I never wanted to leave you
One can love you and want to hate you
Your love is a blessing and a curse
My heart is on fire
Wanting to love and condemn you
Helreich, your breath is cold
So young and yet so old