... and times change

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... and times change
Studio album by Hannes Wader

Publication
(s)

2004

Label (s) Plans - Aris

Genre (s)

Chanson / singer-songwriter

Title (number)

12

running time

56:51

occupation
  • Guitars: Chris Jones
  • Guitars, Dobro, Pedal-Dobro, Pedal Steel Guitar: Nils Tuxen

production

Hannes Wader, Ben Ahrens

Studio (s)

Blue Noise recording studio Hamburg

chronology
Appearance: Hannes Wader (1998) ... and times change Times adopted (2006)

... and the times change is an album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 2004.

Emergence

Hannes Wader and Ben Ahrens, who was also responsible for recording and mixing, produced this album again.

After the albums Nach Hamburg (1989), appearance: Hannes Wader (1998) and Wünsche (2001), this album is the fourth Wader album on which the bassist Benjamin Hüllenkremer is involved. For Jo Barnikel it is the third album after the live albums Appearance: Wader (1998) and Was für eine Nacht (2001).

Two years later, the singer-songwriter released his next album, Mal accepted (2006).

Track list

  1. Paris 1794 3:51
  2. Billionaires 6:41
  3. Greek song 5:11
  4. Vanitas! Vanitatum! Vanitas 4:17
  5. Opinion 6:26
  6. I love hiking for my life 4:06
  7. Oh, the dawn come up 3:25
  8. Impermanence of Beauty 3:53
  9. All together 4:49
  10. Petite Ville 5:24
  11. War is war 4:11
  12. Good-bye to good night 4:10

Texts

The song Paris 1794 is about the time after the storming of the Bastille . Maximilien de Robespierre's reign reached its climax when he guillotine his former comrade Danton and many of his followers and was himself executed six months later. Wader wrote this piece for an open-air performance of Büchner's Dantons Tod , in which he himself took on the role of a traveling singer and chronicler, which did not appear in the original text of the role.

The song Billionaires is about an illustration of a fortune of $ 100 billion. Wader chooses the setting for a fictional math lesson.

Vanitas! Vanitatum! Vanitas! is a song that deals with the finiteness of being and was based on a poem by Andreas Gryphius . The verses were written during the Thirty Years War .

In a statement , the songwriter complains that Nazis are singing his songs. The occasion was the presentation of a CD after a concert in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. A young man hitherto unknown to him sang It is time from Wader's album of the same name (1980). The songwriter weighs up all the arguments, deals with all aspects of the Nazis and comes to the conclusion that he doesn't even want to talk to Nazis.

As an admirer of Joseph von Eichendorff , Hannes Wader set the poem I love hiking to music for my life , which deals with the beauty of nature and hiking.

According to Hein and Oss Kröher, the piece O would come up dawn came from Lithuania to East Prussia , as the two report in their songbook These are our songs . Wader himself heard this song for the first time at the songwriting and folk festival at Burg Waldeck by Helga and Joachim Müller.

The transience of beauty is the setting of a poem by Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau , a contemporary of the aforementioned Andreas Gryphius. The poem is about the decline of beauty in old age.

Lonely is a setting of a Nietzsche poem that deals with the migration of birds in winter, but also depicts the loneliness of humans.

With Petite Ville , Wader delivers a revised version of Kleine Stadt from Lydie Auvray, with whom he toured in the 1980s . The German version of the song can also be heard on the album Wünsche (2001). The original The Town I Loved So Well is by Phil Coulter .

With war is war , the songwriter presents another peace song. The horror of war is branded. Ultimately, Wader concludes that wars only know losers. He chose the melody of the American folk song Will The Circle Be Unbrocken (by Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter based on a song by Ada R. Habershon and Charles Gabriel) to indicate the belligerence of the Americans, who he believes will wage many wars.

Finally, Wader chooses the folk song Ade for good night , in which he composed the last stanza himself.