Maria Franz of HEILUNG on the Beauty of Nature, Life and Music — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey everybody it's elliot from little
2. 0:01punk people here and today i'm here with
3. 0:02the incredible maria of high long i have
4. 0:05to say i saw your performance last night
5. 0:06and it was incredible everyone watching
6. 0:09i highly suggest you go to one of their
7. 0:10live shows because it is just plainly
8. 0:13beautiful are you ready yes i'm so ready
9. 0:15let's do this
10. 0:19so how are you doing today how is the
11. 0:21tour going i am doing very well i am a
12. 0:24bit sore because i was dancing like a
13. 0:26crazy person on stage yesterday it was
14. 0:28so much fun and what an amazingly
15. 0:29beautiful venue yeah i'm glad you saw it
16. 0:32king's theater it was incredible yeah
17. 0:33yeah
18. 0:34it was the fifth show yesterday uh out
19. 0:36of 16 and so yeah and we are a group of
20. 0:4027 people living together in two buses
21. 0:43and it's amazing awesome
22. 0:46your singing voice is beautiful and
23. 0:48angelic it makes me feel better how do
24. 0:50you feel when you're singing if you can
25. 0:52describe it in one word
26. 0:54tranquil
27. 0:55great choice
28. 0:58which song from your latest album drift
29. 1:01means the most to you
30. 1:02i must say anoana
31. 1:05when kai showed me the ancient lyrics i
32. 1:08could just sing it right away so there
33. 1:09was something there the melody just
34. 1:12spoke to me i guess and then we managed
35. 1:14to make a music video that told the tale
36. 1:16of that story
37. 1:18how we pictured it when we made the song
38. 1:20very well so yeah that's very close to
39. 1:22my heart just natural yeah right into it
40. 1:25if your music could heal one thing on
41. 1:27this planet what would you want it to
42. 1:29heal
43. 1:30nature
44. 1:32especially with climate change and stuff
45. 1:35yeah great choice
46. 1:37if your music took the form of an animal
47. 1:39what animal do you think it would be
48. 1:42i think it would be a
49. 1:43unicorn no
50. 1:45uh a stag i really see a stag in it
51. 1:49maybe because of all the antlers but
52. 1:50yeah definitely goat stag i can see it
53. 1:53yeah if you could live in any time
54. 1:55period instead of right now what period
55. 1:57would you choose
56. 1:59oh that's a good one um
57. 2:02i think ancient times were hard
58. 2:06harder than it is today because today we
59. 2:08can get food on the table and we can be
60. 2:10warm if we're cold and all that but if i
61. 2:13was living in a warmer climate i would
62. 2:15say the hunter-gatherer stone age
63. 2:18just because they were experiencing
64. 2:20everything for the first time and i i
65. 2:22think it must have been exciting and
66. 2:24imagine if you brought your music to
67. 2:26that time period how incredible it would
68. 2:28be yeah yeah yeah and i think also in
69. 2:30that time they discovered that they had
70. 2:32a voice or the voice vocal cords were
71. 2:35developed so they went from maybe
72. 2:37grunting and
73. 2:40until actually being able to sing and
74. 2:42imagine hearing someone sing for the
75. 2:43first time that must have been pretty
76. 2:45epic
77. 2:46without a doubt
78. 2:47your music has helped so many people in
79. 2:50life what records helped you the most in
80. 2:52life
81. 2:54oh also good question um
82. 2:57there's a lot of folk music that i
83. 2:59treasure very much and i think there's a
84. 3:01finnish swedish band called head nina
85. 3:04and they play really
86. 3:06upbeat and sometimes calm but you know
87. 3:09there's something about the beats that
88. 3:10just grips me and makes me want to dance
89. 3:13and if i feel uh
90. 3:15sad or just me i like to put something
91. 3:18on that makes me want to dance so yeah
92. 3:20that helped me a lot
93. 3:21upbeat music definitely keeps the mood
94. 3:23up yeah it does
95. 3:25if you could travel in time to go back
96. 3:27and visit the younger version of
97. 3:29yourself what would you say to yourself
98. 3:32oh i would say don't worry and
99. 3:36it's all gonna be fine and uh don't
100. 3:38stress about finding out who you are
101. 3:40because just live and you will find out
102. 3:45yourself yeah exactly yeah since high
103. 3:48lung means healing do you have positive
104. 3:51hopes for the earth and the human race
105. 3:54i do i see a lot of potential in the
106. 3:56human race and i just wish that we would
107. 3:58get smarter a bit quicker but
108. 4:00i think we're going there and yeah
109. 4:02there's so many initiatives going on
110. 4:04about how to how to clean the oceans and
111. 4:07and how to make sustainable food sources
112. 4:10and
113. 4:11you know
114. 4:12if we can just you know skip the whole
115. 4:15let's try to be as rich as possible as
116. 4:16fast as possible idea
117. 4:19i have hopes i do have hopes nice humans
118. 4:22got to evolve and with the planet yeah
119. 4:25with all the problems with the planet
120. 4:26yeah
121. 4:29what kind of world do you think you'd
122. 4:31like to go to after you die
123. 4:34oh
124. 4:35a world where
125. 4:37material goods doesn't matter so you
126. 4:40only need to develop your minds and your
127. 4:43social skills and artistic talents so a
128. 4:46world where you wake up and the only
129. 4:48thing you need to do is learn to play
130. 4:50the violin or
131. 4:52learn how to write a good story or you
132. 4:54know to be only in the creative bubble
133. 4:57and not having to worry about
134. 4:59uh money or clothes or any of the
135. 5:01material goods that would be the perfect
136. 5:03perfect world i wish life was like that
137. 5:05right now right
138. 5:07how wonderful would that be yeah yeah
139. 5:09yeah your songs are beautiful with
140. 5:11occasional eeriness and turbulence how
141. 5:14do you personally find peace in a dark
142. 5:16world
143. 5:18we do that through
144. 5:20transcending through music in in this
145. 5:22way uh it it's uh it's a soothing place
146. 5:26to be when you are in the flow the
147. 5:28creative flow it's a place where it
148. 5:31feels like nothing can harm you because
149. 5:32you're making something that's
150. 5:34bigger than yourself
151. 5:36so yeah
152. 5:37tranquil like you said earlier
153. 5:39yeah absolutely
154. 5:41if you could have any superhuman power
155. 5:43which power would you choose
156. 5:45oh that's a good one i would choose to
157. 5:48be able to fix things that's broken
158. 5:51including nature that is that is a great
159. 5:53that is a great word
160. 5:55if the planet could speak to us in one
161. 5:58sentence using english words what do you
162. 6:00think it would say
163. 6:01help me
164. 6:05right yeah but i i think it would send
165. 6:07out a plea of like stop
166. 6:11stop polluting stop uh throwing stuff in
167. 6:14nature that will never go away stop
168. 6:17making single-use plastic that cannot be
169. 6:20used for anything else we have to think
170. 6:22in the circular
171. 6:23way right like
172. 6:25get a get yourself a coffee cup and
173. 6:27carry it around so you don't have to use
174. 6:29the single stuff and yeah
175. 6:32yeah no i really i really would feel
176. 6:33that the earth is crying a bit for help
177. 6:36right now do you think people would
178. 6:37listen
179. 6:40i think
180. 6:4250 would listen and those 50 have to
181. 6:45convince the rest to listen well i mean
182. 6:48like 50 of the world if they all put it
183. 6:50together i honestly think there could be
184. 6:52real real change yeah yeah i agree
185. 6:55absolutely that's that would that was
186. 6:57solve a lot so everyone watching this
187. 7:00tell your friends yes
188. 7:03i love the beautiful dreamy landscapes
189. 7:05in your music videos what kind of dreams
190. 7:07do you usually have
191. 7:09oh i dream a lot of
192. 7:14flying
193. 7:17it's weird i have this okay reoccurring
194. 7:19dream where i'm i'm standing and i can
195. 7:21like with
196. 7:22my mind i can slowly lift myself up and
197. 7:25i can hover
198. 7:26and and then i normally wake up before
199. 7:28it gets really exciting but i'm always
200. 7:29like oh my god i'm hovering i'm hurrying
201. 7:31and then i wake up
202. 7:32yeah
203. 7:33what would you do if you started
204. 7:35hovering while you were singing live
205. 7:38oh that's like my biggest dream ever
206. 7:39like my voice is
207. 7:42then i would like
208. 7:43yeah i don't know i would um that would
209. 7:46be an epic moment flying over
210. 7:48the the people
211. 7:50yeah while slinging with them like that
212. 7:52just being
213. 7:53yeah i would kind of be a little
214. 7:54panicked
215. 7:57i think because i've been dreaming it so
216. 7:58much i think i would take it very
217. 8:00natural just go with it just go with it
218. 8:02yeah that would be probably a wonderful
219. 8:04experience
220. 8:06do you think that there are better
221. 8:07planets in the universe that we don't
222. 8:09know about would you rather live there
223. 8:11if you could
224. 8:13it depends if they have this uh
225. 8:16thing where you don't care about
226. 8:17material goods but you can only do
227. 8:19creativity all day long i might consider
228. 8:21moving but
229. 8:22i do love the planet that we are on
230. 8:25right now i think
231. 8:26the nature and the diversity of both
232. 8:29people and plants and animals and and
233. 8:31yeah creativity i mean i don't know
234. 8:34maybe this is unique for for us uh who
235. 8:36knows
236. 8:37so yeah but i do think there's other
237. 8:39planets out there the universe is just
238. 8:41so big it has to be right yeah there has
239. 8:44to be
240. 8:45there's no way and also i mean you could
241. 8:47be a part of the healing of this world
242. 8:49yeah yeah yeah it would be like yeah it
243. 8:52would be uh
244. 8:54cowardice to to just sleep without yeah
245. 8:58yeah yeah exactly living leaving
246. 9:00everything in a mess behind like nah
247. 9:02let's fix this yes i'm with you on that
248. 9:05you seem like such a nice human being
249. 9:07how do you stay positive in such a crazy
250. 9:09world
251. 9:11i do because i focus on the beauty
252. 9:12around
253. 9:13and it's uh
254. 9:15it's like you you do really have a
255. 9:17choice you can see see the darkness or
256. 9:19you can see see the light like of course
257. 9:21it's good to be aware that there are
258. 9:23dark spots that
259. 9:25could do with some fixing uh but i think
260. 9:27to stay positive helps to fix the dark
261. 9:31stuff so i would always say like try
262. 9:34even though it's sometimes it's really
263. 9:36hard and maybe you're living a really
264. 9:38really rough life or someone you love or
265. 9:40ill or there's many occasions to be to
266. 9:42be sad but then you know you will help
267. 9:45your surroundings better if you yourself
268. 9:47can stay positive and there is so much
269. 9:50good out there so if you can try to
270. 9:52angle your consciousness in that
271. 9:54direction give you strength to handle
272. 9:57dark stuff in your life
273. 9:59i completely agree with you on that
274. 10:02all right for these you're just gonna
275. 10:03say if you believe in them or not okay
276. 10:05ghosts
277. 10:06yes nice aliens yes
278. 10:09hell
279. 10:10no
280. 10:11reincarnation yes
281. 10:13karma yes
282. 10:14heaven no
283. 10:16magic yes bigfoot yes
284. 10:20of course i hope there's bigfoot
285. 10:22i i hope
286. 10:23maybe bigfoot's helping the earth you
287. 10:25know who knows hanging out in nature
288. 10:26yeah i would love to hang out with you
289. 10:28definitely
290. 10:30is there anything else you'd like to add
291. 10:32i think you asked amazing questions and
292. 10:34i think that you're on the good track of
293. 10:37uh
294. 10:38yeah of of talking about the big
295. 10:41questions in life uh
296. 10:43with uh with the younger
297. 10:44generation uh salute you for that thank
298. 10:47you so much and thank you for providing
299. 10:49us beautiful art and music
300. 10:51thank you so much thank you hope you
301. 10:53everyone yes
302. 10:57awesome once again check out hialong
303. 11:00watch them live they are incredible