ESSENTIAL LYRICS

SCARED OF HAPPINESS © 2008
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - Don Gorda
Published by Vimana Mv

There're no trees, in the way, just your eyes... there's no space, there's no time, just your smile... You are so essential to me that I wonder...
and sometimes I am so scared of happiness
As I melt, into you, you're my sun... our souls intertwine, become one... In you I see the light, that always shines...
and sometimes I am so scared of happiness

WE LEARNED TO SMILE © 2008
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - Don Gorda - Erin Perry
Published by Vimana Mv / Music Mail

You know... I'm gonna tell you somethin' about the day, when the fog was lifted from my eyes... when I saw us as we were as we are.
I saw us, along side a wide speeding river looking for a place of refuge a safe place, free of violence, free of ignorance.
where false promises and lies are washed away.
And on this riverbank, we learned to smile... to love and smile...
and to accept love from others, to believe that no human has authority over another,
that no race or religion is better than the next and gender doesn't portray power. because we are looking for an authentic spiritual growth...
But I can also see them on the other side of this river, those who learned to lie behind their smiles...
treating people in need like shit, turning countries from a democracy to a decidership...
These masters of mind control, who learned to pit empires against empires,
in order to change destinies everywhere, who feed the walls of flames, like those of the "maid of the seas"...
But still, we learned to smile... to love and smile... like millions of people... who lived for generations, in peace and harmony, in one land. That is, before the masters came to corrupt and buy, manipulate and contract awards... to get light sweet crude.
All in the name of money, in the name of power, in the name of God!
And you know, it makes no difference ... big nations, exporting weapons around the world or simple workers of the land... powerful stockholders or fathers and mothers... they and we will all leave this world one day.
Young or old, black or white , infamous or living a quiet life... no matter whether you're a millionaire or struggle just to put food on the table, no matter what background, no matter your dreams.. and I don't know if on that side of the river, they their children the real value of life...
if they teach them respect, if they teach them generosity?
But we ain't gonna cross the river and play their games... and we are not scared... 'cause love is the only answer and it sets us free.

THE MEASURE OF LIFE © 2007
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - Don Gorda - Michele Manzo - Keith Thompson
Published by Soulfuric / Vimana Mv / Jamlure Int.

Each moment we live as if it were one full life, enlarges our existence...
like a lotus blossom, symbolizing the causality of the spiritual life...
rising up from the mud of the swamp, growing up through its murky waters
you are the universe, come sing through my soul...

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT RHYTHM © 2006
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - Don Gorda - Michele Manzo - Keith Thompson
Published by Soulfuric / Vimana Mv / Jamlure Int.

All God's children got rhythm, not just the black ones, or the tall ones, not just the white ones, or the shorts ones. not just the privileged few who think they're cooler than you. No - All God's children got ghythm come find it... find it in the touch of Jazz, in the funk, in the soul, in the rhythm, in the house rhythm! Come on, let me take you there... It's like struttin down to swing street to check out Charlie Parker, Monk or Miles... this modern underground got secret styles... in the touch of Jazz. Cause all God's children got rhythm!

MUVIN' UP © 2004
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - Don Gorda
Published by Suono

Play my song again, like in that hot summer night at Trocadero, what Bobby was doing up there? Listen, he was got 'em both going together, just spinning Chris Hills & the Company, I mean, the Players Association and then he played my track, got to keep 'Muvin' up'!

BACK 2 THE MUSIC © 2002
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - FosterKent - Tommy Blaize
Published by Vimana Mv GmbH / Fosterkent Mv GmbH

I' m driving back to the years, to the white island hill, back to the taste of your young innocence, I' m driving me back, back to the music...

INTO YOUR MIND © 2001
Music / Lyrics: Christian Hornbostel - FosterKent
Published by Vimana Mv GmbH / Fosterkent Mv GmbH

Wanna tell you about a story, where are you, just look around and remember a blind is a blind, 'cause I'm movin' into your mind.

ESSENTIAL DISCOGRAPHY

NIKITA WARREN I need you (BHF) IRMA / VIRGIN
TALES FROM UNDERGROUND Lotus (Shadow) PRG
WHITE CITY Wanna be (Shadow) MANTRA
VIRTUALSMISMO Mismoplastico (Shadow) PRG
VFR Tranceillusion PRG
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Speed load in A.G. HEADQUARTER
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Into your mind UK SOUTHEAST
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Back 2 the music UK SOUTHEAST
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL I need you AIRPLANE
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Wanna Fly Away AIRPLANE
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Muvin' up AIRPLANE
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL Savoy Session One AIRPLANE
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL feat. KEITH THOMPSON All God's Children got rhythm SOULFURIC
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL feat. BEVERLEY T. Joy HOUSEPACIFIC
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL feat. KEITH THOMPSON The measure of life REELGROVE
CHRISTIAN HORNBOSTEL feat. ERIN PERRY We learned to smile HOUSEPACIFIC


ESSENTIAL REMIX PRODUCTION

JOY CARDWELL Soul to bare US EIGHT BALL
SATOSHI TOMIIE Come to me SONY INCREDIBLE
CHRIS ZANDER Lord of sunshine ADDITIVE
BARBARA TUCKER Just can' t get enough CAUS-N-FF-CT
MACKENZIE feat. JESSY All I need KLANG PROZESSOR
DUBFLAKES The sun is shining STYLES KICKIN'
HEATWAVE Boogie nights A45
DEEP FOREST Endangered Species SONY FRANCE
KIENZLE & IBERLE Touch me UK SKYLINE
VANESSA ALLEN feat. LOU REED Sunday Morning AIRPLANE
AFROMENTO Human Wave SOULFURIC TRAXX
D3 feat. IVANA B. Freedom TRI CIROLE
YVES MURASCA Saxy satisfaction MILK & SUGAR REC.
ALFRED AZZETTO Colors PURPLE MUSIC

RECORDING STUDIOS

Sura Q Studio Surheim (Germany): Production, Development, Recording Sessions & Arrangements
Borboletta Recording Studio Cane Garden Bay (Virgin Islands): Recording Sessions, Mix & Mastering

CURRENT & PAST PLAYERS

Bass: Don Gorda, Alex Klier, Ingo Peter Schwarz
Guitar: Eric Norman, Michele Manzo, Tom Reif
Keyboards: Tony Donner, Peter Kent, Fabian Wondrak
Vocals: Brenda Cline, Theresa Thomason, Tommy Blaize, Shelia Michelle', Harriet Roberts, Angela Palmer, Keith Thompson, Beverley T., Erin Perry

Very special thanks to Mark Bounds for his creative support.