‘Michel Montecrossa’s Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2008’ released by Mira Sound Germany as Box Sets including 4 Concert Audio-CDs and 2 Bonus DVDs or alternatively 4 Concert DVDs and 2 Bonus DVDs, feature 78 Michel Montecrossa songs and instrumentals, 22 Bob Dylan songs, 5 Traditional songs, 1 Curtis Mayfield song, 1 Woody Guthrie song, 1 Eric von Schmidt song, 1 Johnny Cash song and 1 Roger Mc Guinn song as well as the Bonus DVDs ‘Going to the Spirit of Woodstock Festival’ and ‘The Invisible Wall’.
The ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2008’ is a marvelously multidimensional journey through the song-experiences of two of the most outstanding 21st century songwriters. It is also part of Michel Montecrossa’s Peace & Climate Change Concert Tour 2008.
He has arranged his songs and Bob Dylan’s songs in the context of ‘Save the Climate’ and ‘A Satisfied Mind’ and says:
“Save the climate of love. That’s the best way to save the climate of the earth.”.
The tracks include great Peace & Climate Change topical songs by Michel Montecrossa like ‘Save the Climate’, ‘Earth & Peace’, ‘Sunray Revolution’, ‘Changing World’ and ‘Sweet Earth’ that take a close and profound look at the meaning of the rapid world-changes surrounding us. To save the climate for Michel Montecrossa means centrally a change of consciousness and not only an outer change.
About this crossroad of inner and outer action he sings in broadsides like ‘Cheap Girl’, ‘You’re A Disaster’, ‘The Woman That Loves The Breakthrough’, ‘Believe In Your Dream’, ‘I’m Workin”, ‘Eatin’ & Drinkin’ Blues’, ‘Freedomfire Burnin”, ‘A Song’, ‘War Kills’ and ‘When I Change Dimensions’.
The Bob Dylan songs performed by Michel Montecrossa include Bob Dylan originals as well as traditionals and songs by other artists which Bob Dylan sings in his concerts like ‘Tell Ol’ Bill’, ‘Somebody Touched Me’, the rare and unreleased ‘Rock Me Mama’ and ‘If I Don’t Be There By Morning’.
From his early years are songs like ‘Golden Vanity’, ‘Train A-Travelin” and ‘Ballad Of Easy Rider’ (wich he has cowritten with Roger Mc Guinn) and rarities like ‘Go Away You Bomb’ (with the music of Michel Montecrossa) and ‘Cuban Missile Crisis’. To Bob Dylans gospel songs like ‘What Can I Do For You?’ and ‘Are You Ready?’ from the production ‘Saved’ Michel Montecrossa gives a far-reaching and deeply felt power of meaning and expression. In the song ‘Pressing On’ Michel Montecrossa also sings lyrics which were not included in the original release.
The 2 Bonus DVDs present Michel Montecrossa’s free cinema masterpieces ‘Going To The Spirit of Woodstock Festival’ and ‘The Invisible Wall’.
‘Going to the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri, Italy’ shows Michel Montecrossa and his band The Chosen Few going to the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri, Italy for ten days of Music, Peace and Love. 60 Minutes of stunning free cinema art written and directed by Michel Montecrossa presenting 14 songs and mind blowing cinema vérité action. Great songs, emotion and thrilling feel. ? Share the humanity and joy of the free music revolution. Be on stage with Michel Montecrossa and his bandgirl Mirakali Be together with them at the Festival of Love for groovy bar-driving and dancing. Get the inspiration, feel the drive and the sensation of being with the gang, of being with friends, of being with girls, of being lovers, of feeling great. Let’s go to the Festival with Michel Montecrossa and his girls for the ultimate movie experience and music journey to Cyberrocker land.
‘The Invisible Wall’ is Michel Montecrossa’s great slam poetry earth and peace musical in the form of a cinema vérité orphic story looking through the many symbols and events of life to the reality behind. ‘The Invisible Wall’ tells the story of the Travelin’ Man who for some time has a job as king. Later he drops the job and experiences an existential revolution. It is the door to the reality of love and a new birth in consciousness. ‘The Invisible Wall’ is poetic music-cinema telling the story in a multidimensional way. Various roles express themselves through changing persons, thus creating a web of awareness reversals. Through this interactive play and journey of vision, poetry and music a virtual body appears which gives the clue to the deeper sense of reality: The sense of love bridging all divides, the sense of coming home, the sense of the true embrace that lasts forever.
Disc One (Concert Audio-CD / DVD):
- Save The Climate
- Tell Ol’ Bill
- Cocaine Blues
- Wake Up
- People Get Ready
- Earth & Peace
- Somebody Touched Me
- Sunray Revolution
- Grand Coulee Dam
- This World Is My World #2
- Acne
- Cute Girl
- Straight A’s In Love
- Cheap Girl
- Rock Me Mama
- You’re A Disaster
- If I Don’t Be There By Morning
Disc Two (Concert Audio-CD / DVD):
- The Woman That Don’t Light A Cigarette
- Walk Out In The Rain
- The Woman That Loves The Breakthrough
- Legionnaire’s Disease
- My Limousine Is Long
- Huck’s Tune
- The Spacewalkin’ Woman
- Silver Dagger
- Believe In Your Dream
- Golden Vanity
- I’m Workin’
- Train A-Travelin’
- Eatin’ & Drinkin’ Blues
- Ballad Of Easy Rider
- Freedomfire Burnin’
Disc Three (Concert Audio-CD / DVD):
- A Satisfied Mind
- For All Time To Come (Love Burnin’ Wild And Young)
- I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
- Another World
- Go Away You Bomb
- Changing World
- Talkin’ Devil
- Slum & Murder – Where Is She?
- Death Of Emmett Till
- Shadowy Tree #2
- The Ballad Of Donald White
- A Song
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- War Kills #2
- Wade In The Water
- Sweet Earth
- Saved
Disc Four (Concert Audio-CD / DVD):
- Somebody Loves You
- Covenant Woman
- In The Light Of Dawn
- What Can I Do For You?
- Soulworld Song
- Solid Rock
- When I Change Dimensions (Don’t Want To Hide My Feelings)
- Pressing On
- Check Out What You Do (Trust Your Inner You)
- In The Garden
- I Hold My Hand Over Your Life
- Saving Grace
- Glory Of The Inner Ring
- Are You Ready?
- Future Love Dance
Disc Five (Bonus DVD):
- I’m The Voice Of Peace
- Drop Out Rock
- This World Is My World
- Magic Fire
- Shall We Go To War Again?
- Vikingbride
- Auferstanden
- Wild & Dangerous
- Cybergeneration
- Met You In Paradise
- Cyberbeat
- Vomit Of Your Soul
- Freedomfire Burnin’
- The Place Of The Free
Disc Six (Bonus DVD):
- Earth & Peace
- The Story’
- Salut! Je Suis Orphée
- Symmetry Near The Invisible Wall & Wild Hearts
- The King Is Comin’
- Chat ‘King & Girl’
- Story Of The Invisible Wall
- Down By The Garden
- Dreaming Roof
- She Always Thinks Of Me
- I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man
- Wanna Survive?
- The Meadow Of Oblivion
- The Gate To Silence
- The Blood Of Silence
- Do You Go Into Your Own Direction?
- She Was His Favorite Hell
- Passing Through The Invisible Wall
- Cheap Girl
- The Morphogenetic Legend
- The Traveling Man Left His Job As King
- A Song
- I Give Myself To Love
- I Do Remember Well
- I Should Follow Her
- Her Gaze Was A Wide Expanse
- The Charm Of Her Laughter
- She Sent All Her Love To Me
- Love Is Without Limits’
- Interior And Exterior
- All The Desire Of Countless Millennia
- The Virtual Bodies