Category Archives: 2015

Of the songs of our retrospective you voted your favorite songs. More than half of the songs got a vote and the most votes are shared between a polish and a czech song, which therefore both came in in first place! You especially liked The Tap Tap with their song „Riditel autobusu“, the song about…

Now it’s your turn – Tell us which goodie you liked most! Vote for your favorite goodie! You’ve got three votes! And if you’d like to participate in this year’s raffle, leave a comment with your favorite cover song! The winner of the raffle will get the album of the most favorite band of this…

Dear connoisseurs of musical goodies, even our Best-Of-musical journey through the four countries of the GFPS comes to a stop today. At our final destination we present you with an ironically broken christmas song by Nightwork from the Czech Republic. The lyrics are – as always – worth a look, as the main courses of…

If you finally want to start relaxing from the pre-christmas stress, we can highly recommend Friedrich Liechtenstein’s “Batch Castle”. A year ago the entertainer was one of your favorite artists of the musical advent calendar. Click here for the introduction and the lyrics: http://musikadventskalender.gfps.org/de/friedrich-liechtenstein-das-badeschloss…

Our polish song of the year 2014 was „Pył“ (Dust). The Polish radio listeners agreed with us and made the song of the Waglewski-brothers, who act as Fisz Emade Tworzywo on stage, their longtime favorite. Even today their songs from the album “Mamut” are played on heavy rotation at the Polish radio stations. Introduction and…

On december first of 2010 Natalia introduced us into the melancholic world of belarussian folklore, felt by the musicians of the Ethno-trio Troitsa. Natalia who helped us with numerous translations and introductions, enabled the musical advent calendar of 2010 to be a guest on the website of the German-Belarussian Society. Greetings and thank you! For…

Radůza’s „Cold Feet“ from the Czech Republic was one of the catchiest songs in our very first edition of the musical advent calendar back in 2009. The post from back then has disappeared, but below you can can find the introduction on Radůza from  another musical goodie in 2011 (Blondýnka). Radůza was discovered in 1993…

Today’s goodie is highly recommended as the perfect breakfast soundtrack – even if it’s a 3pm breakfast 😉 Laing, the girl combo of Nicola Rost have established themselves in the popular music scene of Germany quite well. “Always tired in the morning” is not only a big hit of the band, but also a great…

Today, on this last friday before christmas, we present to you a historical musical goodie. The subsequent setting of a powerfully eloquent poem by Julian Tuwim is a grumbly, rather rantly one from the interwar period. You can check the translation and the glossary to see who the author welcomes to bite him. Click here…

One week before christmas eve we turn more contemplative. The folkoric-ish love song “Ja lubliu” (I love) of the young band BosaeSonca from Minsk was one of the favorite goodies from 2013. For the introduction as well as the lyrics please click here: http://2013.musikadventskalender.de/index-11.html…

The bus driver of “The Tap Tap” were the most popular song from the Czech Republic last year. You can find the introduction and the lyrics here: http://musikadventskalender.gfps.org/de/6-the-tap-tap-der-busfahrer…

Our adventesanal musical collection wasn’t always contemplative. We rather tried to present the wide range of diverse musical styles taken from the highlights of the musical scenes of Germany, Poland, Belarus and the Czech Republic. A special type of band are the musical virtuosos of Panzerballett. A group lead by Jan Zehrfeld of Munich they…

We start this second to last week of advent with the winner of the musical advent calendar of 2013 – Kamp! and their song “Melt”. Do you already feel the beat? Just from their music you wouldn’t guess that these very successful guys are from Poland. But insiders of the Polish capital might be able…

Shortly after the proclaimed end of the world 2012 did not happen, we presented this crazy swing song from Belarus two days before christmas. Alexandra and Lukas introduced the song back then. Today, on the 3rd advent we would like to say a very big thank you to all of the many translators that have…

Tata Bojs scored third place in our charts in 2012 with their song „Opakování“ (Repetition). The introduction and translation of the lyrics were done by Katja, whose insight into the czech music scene we owe much. A warm northbound “Ahoj”, dear Katja! You can find the introduction with the lyrics here: http://2012.musikadventskalender.de/index-22.html…

Today’s musical goodie is one of the highest rated rap songs in the history of the musical advent calendar, which was not only suggested by our hip-hop expert Holger. Additionally the folkloristic style of the song is exemplary for a recurring motif in our music advent calendar – we always tried to mix the varying…

One could say the 24th musical goodie in 2014 came from Poland twice. In the background Belarus was shimmering through, as the musical advent calendar was hosted on the website of the German-Belarus Society. But the christmas goodie was from Myslovitz, one of the most popular pop-bands of the last decades in Poland. The lyrics…

Frontman Sergei Michalok and his guys from Lyapis Trubetskoy rocked our musical advent calendar since 2010, always being very popular. Today we want to look back at a musical goodie from 2011, which, thanks to the English subtitles, highlights the bands political-satirical potential. Original post from 2011 complete with introduction and lyrics: http://2011.musikadventskalender.de/index-6.html The other…

It seems like most of the animated videos in our musical advent calendar came from the Czech Republic. In 2013 it was a video from Vaclav Koubek and the introduction from then ended with the perfect recommendation: “The second praline moves coloured-iridescently through time and space. Get captured and enjoy listening!” Find the original post…

With full speed from Warszawa to Berlin: After we heard the hymn on the Polish capital yesterday, today we present you the musical goodie of a born-and-bred “Berliner” – Peter Fox. In our first musical advent calendar in 2009 he placed fourth. House by the lake Here’s where I was born, walking down the streets…

The musical project from Warsaw (“Projekt Warszawiak”) won the third GFPS musical advent calendar by a huge margin, showing how easily and unpretentious old folklore music can be combined with the many facets of the Polish capital. Original post from 2011 with introduction and lyrics: http://2011.musikadventskalender.de/index-5.html…

With “Ili Ili”, the four graduates of the College of Arts of Belarus, we kicked off the musical advent calendar in 2014 – in keeping with the tradition to start our musical journey in the Eastern part of the GFPS-family. More information on this song and the lyrics can be found here –>…

Wohnout, the Fun-Punks from Czech Republic were part of the musical advent calendar almost every year. With the following song we all got to know them back in 2009: Ó, gramofón…

I remember, this was a suggestion from Stefan that we enjoyed quite a lot during our second musical advent calendar. The video is a nice animation showcasing a piece of German humour that is better than it’s reputation.…

Orkiestra von der polnischen Band Pogodno war im ersten Musikadventskalender die geheime Hymne, die wir am Nikolaustag posteten. Hier und heute das Revival samt Übersetzung.…

With this track we started the first musical advent calendar back in 2009. “Dreamlin” are Denis «C4» Korabkov and Egor Kunovsky from Minsk. „Without Thinking“ was, together with “Orkiestra” von “Pogodno”, elected to the first place of the first GFPS-Musikadventskalender, which was presented on the 6th of January 2010:…