parklane street

4:51 min

There is a small path through our park in "parklane street". At daytime we can see the urban life here, but at night parklane street mutates to a strangely haunting place.

Peculiar looking creatures pass by and dark odd grimaces float along. This pretty nightly scenery might be amusing and scaring at the same time.

Are these creatures demons of a distant former past? Or are they just current goblins and ouphes? Or are they purely fictitous imaginations? Wether the sqirrels and birds play their games or the true demons float around - that's the question. What we can say is that at night this park is a most attractive, strange and magic place.

You may have a look at the lyrics here (pdf).

For this song we did all recording already in 2009. Though many tracks had to be recovered and recorded again for this release in 2020.

Some words

Eckbert Suhrbier asks andy enroe

What's so special about "parklane street"?

Well, it's our current song - with a fantastic enchanting melody, with our current favourite guitar sound and, most important, with our current park thoughts!

What are your "current park thoughts"?

Well, that is exactly what everybody can find out by watching and listening the video. But what is even better: Create her or his own "park thoughts"!

This song is very guitar based. How many guitars did you use for parklane street?

I really can't say. At first listen you'll realize 4 in the chorus and again 3 in the main parts. But for the recording we used about 40 guitar tracks.

Where did these ethnic looking masks come from?

Yeah, gladly we could use works of the famous Catalan mask designer and artist Saturnino Tutusaus. Tanja knew his works, and we rediscovered his masks in 2019.

Do the masks stand for the "park thoughts"?

Yes, in a way they are the mugs and the grimaces in the park. They visualize the demons and goblins floating through the nightly park. They are - maybe - unknown beings. Or they are even part of ourselves.

I am surprised and delighted with these pretty unusual actors in the nightly scenes of the video.

Yes, the dancers of the City Nord event in 2019 contributed to our video and they performed the best fitting expressions to "parklane street". This work was big fun and we are very happy with their dancing!

Ok, but isn't the video in its second part a little scary? Is it really good for everyone?

Haha, maybe ... at first look this video should be entertaining, amusing and also surprising. And secondly hopefully this songvideo may motivate to recall your very own topics - without being distracted by your smartphone or by the hustle and bustle of your everyday life. Maybe you can see everything on a bigger scale - ancestors, successors, the planet etc. And ... well ... that can be scary.

What strikes me is that you created videos for all latest songs. Do you want to go on producing videos?

Perhaps, but ... no! That is just a spleen of this time. For me I can say that I want to concentrate on songs again. The video-production is just a concomitant, the main focus still stays on writing songs!

Thank you!

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composed already in 2009; mixed and recorded in 2019 and 2020. composed & produced by: andy enroe; guitars and e-bass: tanja soler zang; vc, dr, contra-bass, gt: andy enroe; executive musical advisor: tanja soler zang; graphics & fotos extracted from the video (see below).

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the video shows the content of the song "parklane street". creatures and dancers: City Nord Performance Dancers of 2019 in Hamburg; masks: Saturnino Tutusaus; extra masquerador: Markus Kaczor; park player: Uwe, Kevin, Kari; video work, fotos, graphics and storyboard: gamma five media, Markus Kaczor & andy enroe; special thanks to all the supernumeraries who contributed to this video.

Saturnino Tutusaus, Catalan mask artist

City Nord Performance Dancers

enroe crew: strangeness in the park