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The tremors start, and my hands begin to shake,
A battle I didn’t choose, but it’s mine to face.
The world moves faster, but I can’t keep up,
I’m trying to hold on, but I’m losing touch.
Every step I take feels like I’m sinking deep,
A fight with my own body, can’t find relief.
But I won’t surrender, I won’t give in,
This fight is mine, and I’ll fight till the end.
I want to be still. I want to be free.
I don’t like this thing controlling me.
Not ready for angels.
To fly me high in the sky.
Gotta keep on fighting.
Till the day I die.
I want to be still.
The days grow longer, but I’m standing tall,
Even when the darkness tries to make me fall.
I might stumble, but I’ll rise again,
The warrior inside me will never bend.
The shakes may come, and the pain might stay,
But I won’t let this disease take me away.
In every moment, I’ll find my strength,
I’ll fight for my life, no matter the length.
I want to be still. I want to be free.
I don’t like this thing controlling me.
Not ready for angels.
To fly me high in the sky.
Gotta keep on fighting.
Till the day I die.
I want to be still.
There’s no giving up, though it feels so hard,
I’ll hold on to hope, no matter how scarred.
Through every struggle, through every tear,
I’ll keep on moving forward, with no fear.
I want to be still. I want to be free.
I don’t like this thing controlling me.
Not ready for angels.
To fly me high in the sky.
Gotta keep on fighting.
Till the day I die.
I want to be still.
Still…
I want to be still.
I’ll keep on fighting.
I want to be still.

Track + Lyrics + (playing time) + Artists
| 1 | Park You Too | (2:53) | Eros Bresolin | Julia Jockelson |
| 2 | Break All Chains | (4:16) | Badhoven | Gerald Ganglbauer |
| 3 | How Will It Be | (4:46) | Badhoven | Gerald Ganglbauer |
| 4 | When I Look Into Your Eyes | (3:41) | John Langford | Gisi Steinert |
| 5 | It‘s Always Me | (3:58) | The Base | Gerald Ganglbauer |
| 6 | Not the River of Mercy | (5:00) | The Base | Gerald Ganglbauer |
| 7 | Believe in Everything You Do | (3:13) | Pete Wain | Andy Hitchman |
| 8 | Red Light Blue Light | (4:19) | Joerg Veselka | Connie Weixler |
| 9 | So Here I Am | (4:05) | Johnny Schwarzinger | Uli Sajko |
| 10 | Wasn‘t I the One | (6:01) | Spring and the Land | Gerald Ganglbauer |
| 11 | The More We | (2:02) | Billy Spakemon | Ray Andrews |
| 12 | The Sound of Parkinson | (2:06) | Tom Isaacs (live at WPC 2016) |

Single, Parkinsong Duets, Volume 2
Stattegg 2019

Parkinsong Duets digitally released the fírst Single from its Volume 2, out in 2023 coinciding with the World Parkinson Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Georges Bizet’s Carmen, performed by Musicgarden in an adaptation by Kurt Strohmeier, with lyrics by Xenia Strunz
Available for Download at| YouTube | Amazon | Apple | Spotify and other digital outlets.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjvRe21Iioc&w=560&h=315]
Badhoven perform a track from our album live at the Mo.xx
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bl0TrPKVE&w=560&h=315]
Parkinsong Duets Volume 2, performed by Musicgarden
(Kurt Strohmeier and Xenia)
Music by Georges Bizet
Adaptation by Kurt Strohmeier
Lyrics by Xenia Strunz

Cover design by Gerald Ganglbauer
Photography by Werner Kmetitsch from „Carmen“ at Opera Graz


One of the tracks is mine. It is called „Park You Too“. I was approached by Gerald Ganglbauer to see if I would like to include „Park You Too“ in this album, but there was one condition.
I had to convert the track to a DUET where one person has Parkinsons and the other doesn’t.
Well I knew which one I was, so I needed to find someone that did not have Parkinson’s.
Julia Jockelson came to the rescue and our new version of „Park You Too“ was added to the album called „Gerald Ganglbauer’s Parkinsong Duets“.
If you would like to buy this CD [in the UK], please message me.
Thanks for listening.

Graz/Wien. Den Einfall, berichtet Gerald Ganglbauer, habe er auf dem Weltparkinsonkongress in Portland 2016 gehabt: „Dort kam mir die Idee, dass Rockstars mit uns Betroffenen gemeinsam Duette singen könnten, um der Welt zu demonstrieren, dass wir Kranken immer noch Menschen sind.“
Ganglbauer, Autor, Herausgeber von Literaturzeitschriften und ehemaliger Teilzeit-Australier, entwickelte eine „coole Website“, um sein Projekt vorzustellen, „und erwartete, dass sich sofort Tausende beteiligen würden, wie damals im Jahr 1984, als Bob Geldof Band Aid auf die Beine stellte.“ Ganz so leicht ging es dann nicht: Zwei Jahre dauerte es, bis Ganglbauer, selbst Parkinson-Patient, seine Musiker zusammen hatte. Die Künstler, die sich für ihn gemeinsam mit Parkinson-Betroffenen ins Tonstudio begaben, kommen aus vielen Stilrichtungen, von Singer-Songwritern wie Jörg Veselka bis zu Rockbands wie Badhoven oder den Grazer Formationen Spring and the Land und The Base. Ihnen gemeinsam sei „ihre Leidenschaft für Musik und Anteilnahme an unserem Schicksal“.
Selbst erhielt der Grazer die Diagnose Parkinson übrigens 2006, da war er 48 Jahre alt. „Ich dachte erst, dass sich nur das Alter bemerkbar machte, als meinen Freunden erste Symptome auffielen. Wie die meisten, denen man sagt sie hätten frühen Parkinson, verweigerte ich anfangs die Diagnose.“ Mittlerweile ist er Botschafter für Parkinson-Selbsthilfegruppen. (tes)
(„Die Presse“, Print-Ausgabe, 10.04.2019)

Stark!Strom – das neue österreichische Rock & Metal Magazin, Wien
04/04/2019, Posting, später auch Review im Printmagazin
www.starkstrom.live

Die Presse, Schaufenster, Menschen
09/04/2019 online, 10/04/2019 print
www.diepresse.at

After radio interviews in England, Germany and Canada, a first article appeared in Austrian print media, thanks to Vojo Radkovic. Tomorrow, on Monday, 1.4.2019 Jürgen Rottensteiner, a poet back in the days when we were young, is going to spread the news about our project in a media release.
Parkinson song performed by Tom Isaacs
Recorded live by Gerald Ganglbauer at the WPC 2016
Words by Tom Isaacs, music by Richard Rodgers
(Climb Every Mountain, The Sound of Music)

Grow every stem cell
Search every gene
Sequence every Exome
Till you find the key
Misfolded proteins
Clumping in my brain
Please disaggregate my
Alpha synuclein
Drill a hole in my brain
See how deep you can go
Then insert some old tube
Filled with a placebo
I’ve got dysfunctional
Mitochondria
Lack of Dopa in my
Basal ganglia
There’s a breakthrough out there,
But there’s one thing I wish
That you give it to us,
Not to rats or to fish
Grow every stem cell
Search every gene
Sequence every Exome
Till you cure Pd

4. März 2019
Sehr geehrter Herr Ganglbauer, zunächst einmal herzliche Gratulation zu ihrer wegweisenden und vorbildlichen Initiative.
[…]
… Interviewtermin fixieren.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Gerhard Koch
Chefredakteur
ORF STEIERMARK
Eva Pöttler am Mittwoch, 13.3.2019
Einstieg
Beitrag

Donnerstag, 7. März 2019 von 17:30 bis 19:00
Gastgeber: Gisi Steinert
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/ian-scarrett/djscazza-radio-show-3319-includes-gerald-ganglbauer-talking-about-parkinsong-duets/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1]

Spring and the Land feat. Gerald Ganglbauer (10)
The Base feat. Gerald Ganglbauer (5)
The Base feat. Gerald Ganglbauer (6)
Recording Session with Badhoven (2, 3)
Johnny Schwarzinger feat. Uli Sajko (9)

Parkinsong Duets artists
We would like to thank our artists one more time. Their contributions are very much appreciated. Visit their websites and music videos.
Andy Hitchman parkinsons.org.uk
Badhoven badhoven.com
Billy Spakemon, Ray Andrews parkinsons.org.uk
Connie Weixler parkinsonline.at
Eros Bresolin parkinsonsmovement.com
Gerald Ganglbauer parkinsonline.at
Gisi Steinert parkinsonline.at
Joerg Veselka joerg-veselka.com
John Langford johnlangfordmusic.com
Johnny Schwarzinger Johnny Schwarzinger
Julia Jockelson parkinsonsmovement.com
Pete Wain Pete Wain
Spring and the Land springandtheland.com
The Base the-base.at
Tom Isaacs cureparkinsons.org.uk
Uli Sajko parkinsonline.at
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj5wtDXpma8&w=560&h=315]
Norbert Wally from The Base and I connected immediately six years ago at a Postgarage Graz concert on January, 19, 2013. It was a late discovery – the Indie band was founded back in 1989, the same year I had left for Australia and lost touch with Graz. So I reviewed their tenth album „Secret Second Thoughts“, and some more new releases since. Singing alongside such a great voice was an honor and a challenge, but fun in the end. I dig this song, because I can fully subscribe to the lyrics, and the tune doesn’t get out of your head. Gerald Ganglbauer
Johnny Schwarzinger is the bass player and lead singer of Austrian band Catwalk. On Parkinsong Duets he performs a duet with Uli Sajko, who also reads one of her poems in German language.
Parkinsong Duets: Singer/Songwriter Pete Wain from the United Kingdom performs a duet with Andy Hitchman.
Filmed on a trip to Vienna across the Semmering some weeks ago in January 2019. I was driving at constant speed, thanks to cruise control. The tunnels had some hypnotic or psychedelic affect on me and suit this song perfectly. Spring and the Land agreed and approved the clip. Gerald Ganglbauer