The mockingbird is indigenous to Central and North America and occupies a special place within North American literature.

'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people’s gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'" (From "To Kill A Mockingbird", chapter 10. Harper Lee, 1960). See also the lullaby Hush Little Baby or Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Walt Whitman).

Credits:
´Green Grass´: Tom Waits und Kathleen Waits-Brennan (from the Album Real Gone, 2004 Jalma Music)
'Oh, Didn't He Ramble': William Christopher Handy
A traditional funeral air from New Orleans. This is played when the procession moves away from the grave.

Acknowledgements are due to Mathias Koch (sound recording), Luke Baio (assistance and guidance), Georg Eckmayr, Markus Wintersberger

Dominik Grünbühel, b. 1978 has been working as freelance dancer/performer in Vienna since 2001. Previously he studied contemporary dance in Vienna and London (London Contemporary Dance School - The Place).

Co-operations with Cie. Smafu, Radek Hewelt, Patrice Chéreau, Katharina Weinhuber, Association LISA, Tanz*Hotel, Homunculus, Markus Kupferblum, Sabile Rasiti, Luke Baio, etc.

Since 1999 bassist, MC and founding member of Nifty´s

niftys.klingt.org (Austrian World Music Prize 2006, “Ö1” Radio Artist of the Year (Vienna) 2007)

"Takeshi Express", extra record 2007 (EX 695-2)