Birds' Back to Normandy

Remembering my father who was in/near Kassel as slave labor in a camp during a bombardment. Afterward, he was forced to remove the dead bodies from the cellars.

I found this trailer while searching the history of my father. A trailer without music. I took the liberty to write some music with this trailer in order to commemorate the faith of my Father.

Back to Normandy - The ramp of Auschwitz-Birkenau

For those who died in solitude (1914-1918, 1939-1945, and 2020) and for those who have to watch helplessly. 

Now that the Coronavirus strikes and the political level (except for the people with money in their eyes) puts aside their differences, I am reminiscing about an old composition: the Unknown Soldier. Maybe it is because I find the resemblance of the situation now very similar to the situation back then. I wrote this composition a while ago. My goal at the time was to describe the process of the soldier on the battlefield. It became a comparison with what is happening today. The French president Macron said that we are at war with a virus: "Nous sommes en Guerre”.

To clarify what I mean, I have used images of World War I. Mainly because, in those days, respect for the ‘wounded soldier’ was hard to find. Luckily, today this is no longer the case. But when I look at the political back-and-forth in the parliament, I see little respect from some parties. No ...

Een hommage aan de veteranen die op weg zijn naar hun volgende bestemming

Music by Fred Vogels

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