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Geisterzug / Ghosts Parade

Johannisstraße 32, 50668 Köln, Germany

A 18-minute field recording by Matthes made in Köln, Germany on 6 February 2016, in the evening. Soundscape: streets & traffic, trains & stations and crowds & voices.

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Geisterzug / Ghosts Parade
17:58
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Recordist's notes

Am Karnevals-Samstag findet in Köln jedes Jahr der Geisterzug (Kölsch: Jeisterzoch) statt. Vor dem Zug fährt ein Polizeifahrzeug, dann folgen viele phantasievoll verkleidete Menschen und Gruppen. Es ziehen im Zug auch Gruppen mit Musikinstrumenten mit. Die Aufnahmestandort wurde nicht verändert. Im Gedränge ist es leider ein paarmal vorgekommen, dass Passanten das Mikrophon berührten. Näheres zum Geisterzug findet sich hier: http://www.geisterzug.de/ / On Carnival Saturday is in Cologne every year the Ghost Parade (For Cologne native speakers: "Jeisterzoch"). Before the parade drives a slowly police car, then follow many imaginatively dressed people and groups. In the parade also aere many groups with musical instruments. The receiving location has not changed. In the crowd it unfortunately happened a several times that some people touched the microphone. Dtails on Ghost Parade can be found here: http://www.geisterzug.de/place for Ghost here: http://www.geisterzug.de/

Written by Matthes on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Köln is a city of about 1,024,621 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 772 field recordings from here.

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