Attention (album)

Caution
Studio album by Pur
Publication (s)	2015
admission	2014-2015
Label (s)	Universal Music
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	15th
running time	57:14
occupation	Singing: Hartmut Engler , Xavier Naidoo , Carolin Niemczyk Guitars, keyboards, percussion: Martin Ansel Keyboard: Ingo Reidl Bass, vocals: Joe Crawford Guitars, vocals: Rudi Buttas Drums: Frank Dapper Keyboard, vocals: Cherry Gehring
production	Martin Ansel, Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl
Studio (s)	Studio 3 Bietigheim-Bissingen; Saubach Records Bietigheim-Bissingen; Studio 1 Besigheim
chronology Appearance & Being (2012) Caution Between the Worlds (2018)

Attention is a 2015 music album by the German group Pur .

Creation and publication

The songs on the album Achtung were written between 2014 and 2015. Hartmut Engler wrote the text for the song Lights at the beginning of 2015, without knowing that the lines would become more topical nine months later in the wake of the refugee crisis. The program Sing mein Song , in which Hartmut Engler took part in spring 2015 and which was broadcast from May 19 to July 7, 2015 , also had an influence on the album . Hartmut Engler presented the title song Achtung, for example, as part of the program. On June 16, 2015, the single Achtung was released as an MP3 download. The proceeds from a version with the children's choir of the Bietigheim-Bissingen music school went to the Toni Kroos Foundation.

The song Who holds the world back, interpreted by Xavier Naidoo , Carolin Niemczyk and Hartmut Engler , which is included on the album and was also released as a single, goes back to the cooperation in the show . While Engler wrote the verses of the song, Naidoo was the author of the chorus. With Niemczyk from the group Glasperlenspiel , which can be heard in the chorus, Pur appeared together at the Pur & Friends concert in September 2014 . The song Anni was written for Engler's mother's 90th birthday and as a supplement to When she hears this tango . Engler was inspired to write the song on the occasion of Daniel Wirtz 's interpretation of Wenn Sie den Tango bei Sing mein Song (number 14 in the German single charts); the very next day he had finished Anni .

The album title Achtung was deliberately chosen ambiguously (pay attention to someone, pay attention to something). The cover design comes from Artworque / Michaela Schmidt and Martin Ansel.

Attention was released on September 18, 2015 and immediately reached number 1 in the charts, but was pushed from the top of the charts in the second week by the album Dos Bros by the group The BossHoss . On November 21, 2015, the four-part documentary 35 Years of PUR - Journey to Adventure Land appeared on VOX, which showed the group, among other things, for a year working on Achtung and preparing for the tour.

From December 2015, the group went on an album tour, with the preview taking place on December 3, 2015 in Sinsheim. The official tour start was on December 5, 2015 in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin; more concerts followed in large halls. In the spring of 2016, Pur continued the tour with 23 more concerts in smaller towns, with the dress rehearsal taking place on March 31, 2016 in Heilbronn.

Track list

1. Who keeps the world (with Xavier Naidoo and Carolin Niemczyk) - 4:18
2. Homesick Land - 3:54
3. Miss You - 3:50
4. Warning - 3:27
5. Good star - 4:12
6. Together - 4:37
7. Lights out - 3:28
8. The Wave - 4:21
9. Take - 4:05
10. Land in sight - 4:18
11. Anni - 4:27
12. Parachute - 4:18
13. Sometimes when I'm sad ... - 1:45
14. Warning - 1:55
15. Who holds the world - 4:19

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Caution   DE 1 09/25/2015 (34 weeks)   AT 19th October 02, 2015 (2 weeks)   CH 9 09/27/2015 (8 weeks)

In response to caution, Engler said “with a distinctive voice, calling for more mutual respect and taking a stand against xenophobia. The songs are partly melancholy, but not hopeless, ”wrote the Höchst Kreisblatt . The Ostthüringer newspaper found that the group on respect for "melancholy perhaps, but still [e] twas with their typical glimmer of hope" auftrete.

Awards

For more than 200,000 units sold, Achtung received a platinum record (as of April 2017). At the Echo Awards 2016 , Pur won the award for Achtung on April 7, 2016 in the category “National Rock / Pop Group”.

Web links

• Attention at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 11, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Information according to the album's booklet.
2. ↑ Stefan Alberti: Pur's image has improved . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 18, 2015.
3. ↑ Formation Pur comes to Mannheim with a new album . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , July 8, 2015.
4. ↑ Pure comes to Leipzig in April . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 12, 2015, p. 11.
5. ↑ ^{a b} "Attention": Pur presents a new studio album . In: Hamburger Abendblatt online , September 15, 2015.
6. ↑ Henriette Westphal: "Our parents were refugees too" . In: Kölnische Rundschau , September 16, 2015.
7. ↑ BossHoss pushes Pur from number one on the charts . In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 4, 2015, p. 16.
8. ↑ A band and their path to success: The documentary event "35 Years of PUR - Journey to Adventure Land" on November 21st. at 8:15 p.m. at VOX . In: news aktuell , October 28, 2015, miscellaneous.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Dress rehearsal in the mass . In: Heilbronner Voice , December 5, 2015, p. 13.
10. ↑ Ralf Kestel: “Pure” trip to the adventure land . In: Fränkischer Tag , March 12, 2016, p. 11.
11. ↑ Chart sources: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
12. ↑ “I'm built close to the water”. The pop group "Pur" around singer Hartmut Engler starts with a new album and a tour . In: Höchster Kreisblatt , September 18, 2015.
13. ↑ Roland Böhm: Pur with a new album "Achtung" . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung , September 18, 2015, p. 12.