«Dreams was written in one night in which I really didn’t have anything to do. I was on my way to the studio. That is Sly Stone’s studio in the record plant building, I had all my things with me because I had nothing else to do. My electronic piano and my crochet project... and well, my diary, my books, my art. I would stay there until they needed me. And so I was sitting on Sly Stone’s bed, on this tremendously huge bed with black curtains, totally unreal – it wasn’t my room, that’s why I call it unreal, legendary, it was somebody else’s room. One afternoon I simply walked in there and wrote Dreams, and I knew as I was writing the song that it was really special. I was neither insecure nor ashamed to show it to the other members of the band. I just knew they would like it...»
Using an elaborate game as a starting point, performers Phil Hayes, Maria Jerez and Thomas Kasebacher set out to ask themselves what turns a moment into a legend. For instance, how do rock musicians describe their creativity? Is it possible to apply their language that creates legends to other events and memories of both creation and destruction? How do situations become stories and how do stories become legends?
If we were to treat the present as the past could we then talk about it differently, see things in a different light? And what happens when the events of the outside world start to collide with our own versions of the truth, when the events of the larger world put our own trials and tribulations into a different perspective?
«Legends & Rumours» brings together three very different artists: Phil Hayes from Zurich, Maria Jerez from Madrid and Thomas Kasebacher from Vienna. In an investigative and collaborative process the set out on a quest for new legends.
