Aff un zo

Aff un zo
Studio album from BAP
Publication (s)	June 8, 2001
Label (s)	EMI Electrola
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Kölsch rock
Title (number)	16
running time	85 m 10 s
occupation	Vocals, guitar: Wolfgang Niedecken Guitar, vocals: Helmut Krumminga Bass: Werner Kopal Drums: Jürgen Zöller Wind instruments, guitar: Jens Streifling Percussion: Sheryl Hackett Keyboard: Michael Nass
production	BAP
Studio (s)	Ca'n Franch, Cala San vincenc (Mallorca) mid-January to mid-March 2001
chronology Sound film (1999) Aff un zo Övverall (2002)

Aff un zo ( Kölsch for “from and to”) is the 13th studio album by the Cologne rock band BAP . It was released by EMI Electrola in 2001 and reached number 1 in the German album charts from June 22nd to 28th and July 6th to 12th, 2001 .

Songs and album art

In the song Wat 'e Johr! Wolfgang Niedecken describes the events that occurred in the year before the album was released. Especially the line-up of the band and the resulting new unit. Wolfgang Niedecken said in an interview at the WDR2 Unplugged concert on June 10, 2001 about this song: “It starts with the fact that we are rehearsing in the Eifel for the“ Tonfilm ”album in a snowy environment and the first headlines come from the tabloid press "Aus für BAP !!" in the middle of our rehearsal ring. Oh, shit, now I just had to tell everyone that it was going on. And the piece ends where we started working on the film with Wim Wenders in Essen in the "Lichtburg". That's just the prologue of this album ... ".

Aff un zo was the pre-release single for the album and follows the tradition with other reggae tracks from BAP such as Müsli Män from the album Für usszeschnigge! (1981), Stell dir vüür from the live album Bess demnähx (1983), Time is cash, time is money from the album Ahl Männer, aalglatt (1984) or Ahnunfürsich from the album Comics & Pin-Ups (1999).

Eddie's Radio Show pays homage to the gentlemen and women who brought so much information about new music on the radio in the sixties or seventies, from a time when this was not yet the case "at least after a minute and a half, somehow the next one has to Chart hit coming ".

Shoeshine (English for shining shoes ) was created at the turn of the year 1999/2000 during a vacation in Costa Rica. It's about a number of bizarre people at the Grand Hotel in San Jose. Wolfgang Niedecken said in an interview at the WDR2 Unplugged concert on June 10, 2001 about this song: "One half of the foyer is a classic, old foyer, as you would imagine it to be in an old box. The other half is one Casino and there are the most incredible guys lounging around, and I actually got there pretty jetlagged, but everything worked because I was exactly in the rhythm with which you are on tour, because you don't go on tour before three o'clock to bed and that was exactly the time when you usually went to sleep and sat there in the morning on the terrace of the hotel and, above all, saw the shoe shiners, the beggars and the people who came out of the casino everything was written down and put into rhyme and a piece with a kölsch-english refrain, which is called: Shoeshine, how about Shoenine? How wöhr et with jet Shoeshine ... "

The Moritat vun Jan un Griet celebrates the legend of Jan and Griet , which is very popular in Cologne . Wolfgang Niedecken at the concert in Bern on June 7, 2001: “My personal favorite story from the Cologne fund is that of a couple who should not find each other at the time of the Thirty Years' War. This story is performed every year at Severinstor on Weiberfastnacht. I've looked at this thing a thousand times and I always loved it. Shortly afterwards I have to keep repeating that I get out of Cologne, but I still have to have the story. To cut a long story short: Jan was a farmhand on a farm within the Cologne city walls - there was still room at that time - and Griet was a maid on this farm, and he was "maddened" in Griet, but she was too "higher." born "- she thought. ... Anyway, she let him run up and then he went to war, desperate and sad, in the thirty-year-old. When he came back to Cologne, he had also made a career ... - he was the equestrian general Jan von Werth. He came back and on a kind of triumphal procession he rode right through the said Severinstor and on the left side, when you come in, then Griet sat with an apple basket as a market woman, recognized him and of course she regretted it: "Jan, who had et jewoss !? " ... "Well, who would have anyone !?" - that means something like "Stupid!" or something like that. And we are happy to finally have a piece where a real moral is at the end. So, girls, listen ... "

Chippendale Desch is, so to speak, the counterpart to Verdamp long ago , which is about the relationship between Wolfgang Niedecken and his father. In Chippendale Desch , Wolfgang Niedecken describes the life story of his mother. In the book Song By Song , Wolfgang Niedecken says about the piece: “Amazingly popular with the audience, although this song is over eight minutes long and you have to listen very carefully. In a poll at the end of the Aff-un-zo tour, Chippendale Desch landed in the audience's favor. The song is like the biography of my mother, who died shortly before, and tells of the eventful life of this really strong woman using various heirlooms that one encounters when the apartment is liquidated. I had already borrowed the table in 1984 as a cover motif for Zwesche Salzjebäck and Bier . That was the table at which I suffered, which I also found extremely narrow-minded, but at which everything important happened. My mother said to me at the time: At some point you want to have it . In fact, he is with me today. "

Aff un zo tour 2001/2002

In summer 2001, before the actual Aff un zo tour, BAP gave two preliminary concerts from autumn 2001, including the “Concert at the Dead Bridge” (a soda bridge ) in Euskirchen, which was also recorded by WDR and a few days later in the broadcast Rockpalast was sent. The complete concert was released on DVD in 2009.

Track list

1. Wat 'e Johr! - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 5:04
2. Aff un zo - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 5:19
3. Eddie's Radio Show - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 3:53
4. Shoeshine - (W. Niedecken) - 6:03
5. Mau Mau - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 6:17
6. The Moritat vun Jan un Griet - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken) - 3:41
7. Miles away - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 5:19
8. Souvenirs - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken) - 4:52
9. Istanbul - (W. Niedecken, M. Nass) - 6:28
10. Chippendale Desch - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 8:00
11. Noh Zahle mohle - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken) - 3:58
12. Suwiesu - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 3:51
13. Irjenden rock'n'roll band - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 5:06
14. You alone - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken) - 7:19
15. What did we cry in another case? - (L. Cohen; German special text: W. Niedecken) - 5:40
16. Wenn se laach - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken) - 4:08

What did we cry in another case? and Wenn se laach are only included on the vinyl double album.

Released in 2007

The album was released again on March 23, 2007 by EMI as a "Digital Remastered CD" with a second CD containing the following bonus material:

1. Triptych (Aff un zo Sessions, Mallorca) -
2. Wenn se laach (Aff un zo Sessions, Mallorca) - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken)
3. It's over, okay (Aff un zo Sessions, Mallorca) -
4. What did we cry in another case? (Aff un zo Sessions, Mallorca) - ( L. Cohen ; German special text: W. Niedecken)
5. Mer stonn op Berlin (from the CD "Heimatklänge" feat. Effjot Krüger , 2002) -
6. Müngersdorfer Stadion (from the CD "Heimatklänge" feat. Effjot Krüger, 2002) -
7. FC, jeff Jas (The 3rd version) - (A. Büchel, J. Streifling, W. Kopal, W. Niedecken)
8. Shoeshine (WDR Soundfiles, June 10, 2001) - (W. Niedecken)
9. Souvenirs (WDR Soundfiles, June 10, 2001) - (J. Streifling, W. Niedecken)
10. Istanbul (WDR Soundfiles, June 10, 2001) - (W. Niedecken, M. Nass)
11. Suwiesu (Stuttgart, March 7, 2004) - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken)
12. You alone (Live, Kaiserslautern, 2006, with Anne De Wolff) - (H. Krumminga, W. Niedecken)

Single releases

• May 21, 2001 - Aff un zo (radio mix) / Aff un zo (single edit) / Irjenden Rock'n'Roll Band
• September 24th 2001 - Shoeshine (Radio Mix) / Shoeshine (Album Version) / Wenn se laach / Wat schriev mer en su enem Fall? / Aff un zo (video)

Another single was prepared, but not released:

• Kilometers Far Away (Radio Mix) / Kilometers Far Away (Album Version) / Eddie's Radio Show

Web links

• Information about the original album on the BAP website
• Information about the remastered album on the BAP website