le 10/07/2003 18:48, Der Automat à automat@offcampus.net a écrit :
Filtre4Pole (who's me ;-)) wrote:
mmhh... yes if you want, but no, not exact... ;-) literally: 'the stages are burnt' - *imo* still the best translation as no other could be satisfying and could 'make more sense' anyway. *fyi* "brûler les étapes" is a current idiomatic phrase (that means something like 'to press on') ...never used around the cycling world(!): here it actually sounds just like a fine word joke ! :-)))) *thanks to Maxime Schmitt(?)*
Why thanks to Maxime Schmitt?
Because he is an old 'frenchie friend' of Ralf & Florian who helps them to write all K'-french lyrics since 1976, listen: "nous sommes les mannequins !" ;-))) *btw* Schmitt was probably the very first, last summer (I mean last year...) to give the tip *not a rumour* about the new album (!) *hehehe* (interview in "Sound-keys" #2 - a french music & technology mag ) I've just read it again: Maxime said that the next album (sounding great like all typical Kw tracks) was (almost) finished, but Ralf & Florian decided to delay the release date (apparently planned first before last Christmas...), and to rework on it with some new equipment... I'm still wondering if that album was the actual TdF one... BUT... he also gave an interesting clue when he talked about... "Tour de France": the first (achieved) Tour de France album was planned 20 years ago, but has been cancelled (in despite the strong concept within) due to 'desagreements': Karl and Wolfgang began at this time to have bad feeling and negative attitude (wrong claims...). -according to Schmitt- they did be responsible for those big Kw "troubles". So, for the album, if it was ok for Ralf and Maxime, Florian was not sure... therefore they decided to release the single only :-/ However it seems the TdF album project never died, as Maxime said: ³the album WILL be RELEASED one day, maybe NEXT, under new "aesthetics"²... [oops! I begin to understand now why he asserted that... ;-)] Maybe, perhaps, _ /o o\ Filtre4Pole \ ~ / I I - -