Everything without electricity
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October 25, 2019 |
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13./14. July 2019 |
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21st |
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78:35 |
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Alles ohne Strom is a live album by the German music group Die Toten Hosen . It was created from the recordings of two acoustic concerts on July 13 and 14, 2019, which were held under the title With Timpani and Trumpets in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and was published by JKP on October 25, 2019 . In advance, the songs were 1000 good reasons , Ohne dich und Fiegen im Regen available as a download. The publication of a video production of the concert recording with another 10 pieces of music is planned for November 22, 2019.
The album contains 21 pieces of music that, according to frontman Campino , were conceived for a big band . In addition to the five-piece band Die Toten Hosen, 11 concert musicians were involved as guests. In addition to 14 older pieces of music from the band, which were specially rearranged for acoustic instruments and mostly changed in style and rhythm, the album contains three cover versions by other musicians. Four new compositions can be heard on the album: Kamikaze , Schwere (-los) , Sorgebrecher (Auf dich) , and Fiegen im Regen . Another previously unreleased song is called Politische Lieder and is by Funny van Dannen .
Design of cover and booklet
The album cover shows Andreas von Holst's first acoustic guitar from 1975. Naked female bodies and flowers are drawn on the body and a red star is painted on and red paint runs down like blood over the guitar. You can see stickers of the bands The Boys and ZK . On the back of the guitar top are the initials “A. v. H. “incised. There are more stickers among others from Fortuna Düsseldorf .
Emergence
Since 1996, in the album Opium fürs Volk , the band has increasingly used the sound of string and wind instruments , some of which are also electronically generated . In 2005, the album Nur zur Visiting of the MTV Unplugged series came out, recorded at the band's concert in the Vienna Burgtheater , played with acoustic instruments only. In 2013 the band worked for several concerts with the symphony orchestra of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf . The recordings were released in 2015 as the album Entartete Musik - Willkommen in Deutschland . Also through the collaboration with Gerhard Polt and the musicians Biermösl Blosn , with whom the band has given concerts again and again since 1986, the idea matured within the band not only to bring out reduced and unamplified versions of their pieces, but to use new instruments, a big band -Create sound and reinterpret your old pieces.
The band Die Toten Hosen consisted of front man and singer Campino , guitarists Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf , bassist Andreas Meurer and drummer Vom Ritchie during the recording of the album . As a guest musician, Esther Kim played the piano. Kim was already involved in the band's first acoustic album Nur zu Visiting in 2005 and has accompanied the band to concerts since then. The strings Alexander Pichugin and Dimitry Pichugin , Georg Sarkisjan , Alex Piastro and Simón Doggenweiler Menkhaus , who came from Russia and trained at the Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf, were on stage with the band throughout the concert tour Die Laune der Natour and are already on the album Das Laune to hear the Natour finals . The wind players Tobias Weidinger and Denis Gäbel had already given the band musical support on the album Laune der Natur . Til Schneider plays trombone and sousaphone , Djorde Davidovic accordion and Salome Ahmend percussion . The arrangements for orchestra and band were written as in earlier productions by the band Dietmar Mensinger and Hans Steingen . In preparation for the evenings, Campino himself took singing lessons from Professor Ludwig Grabmeier from the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf , in order to learn, among others, how vowels can be better defined when singing.
The band invited to a public rehearsal on July 12, 2019 and gave two acoustic concerts in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf under the motto With timpani and trumpets over the next two days . The concerts were recorded under the direction of sound engineer Stefan Holtz and mixed and mastered by Vincent Sorg in the principal .
Title and title list
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At the beginning the group introduces itself in which all instruments of the big band play together for 30 seconds, after which Campino says goodbye first. It follows Sorry, we're sorry melodic, harmonic presented as a a cappella vocal group , but with piano accompaniment.
Due to the occasion, the piece of music electricity has been changed to the text: “... and everything is live” becomes “... and almost without electricity”.
In the Big Bang , as well as in the mood of nature from the album of the same name , the onomatopoeic choral singing was taken from the original into the new jazz version , and the song was converted into a Latin American rhythm with a light salsa color and accompaniment by winds. A good day to fly and This is the moment, on the other hand, hardly experienced any change from the original from the album Ballast der Republik . The new composition Kamikaze is a melancholy hymn .
Without you was recorded as a tribute for the band Rammstein , from which the song originally came.
The new song Schwere (-los) is about a traumatized Auschwitz survivor. After a visit to the extermination camp , Die Toten Hosen wrote the song together with Marteria for the Unplugged Tour.
Old fever from the album Ballast der Republik is inserted into a reggae rhythm.
Funny van Dannen , a singer-songwriter , wrote political songs. He places increased emphasis on the lyrics and accompanies himself minimally on the acoustic guitar. The band now performs this song in this style. This is followed by the song 1000 good reasons, which can be classified among the political songs, as ska in the big band sound. He first appeared on the album A Little Bit of Horror Show in 1988 in a rock version. In the chorus it says: “There are 1000 good reasons to be proud of this country. Why can't we think of a single one now? ”According to Campino, the text should be provocative. "It is directed against people who misuse the word proud as a slogan," he said in an interview with the Schwäbische Zeitung .
The English-language song Everlong comes from the band Foo Fighters , to whom Die Toten Hosen will bow musically with their cover version.
For all home , from the album freak of nature comes the whole is orchestral sound.
The band celebrates friendship and love in the new songs Sorgebrecher (Auf dich) and Fiegen im Regen , whereby the latter borrows musically from The Beatles .
Polka rhythm and pizzicato play can be heard on the title Paradies , first published in 1996 on Opium fürs Volk . This is where the guest drummer comes in.
The original hard-orchestrated punk songs Liebeslied und Achterbahn , from 1987 and 1988 become a calm sentimental ballad. Here comes Alex , also originally from 1988, when the rock version represented the artistic breakthrough of the band Die Toten Hosen. Since then the group has released this track in various versions, including on the album Nur zu Visiting with Esther Kim at the piano . With Alles ohne Strom the song can now be heard as a blues-rock number in the style of ZZ Top or John Lee Hooker .
Days like this performed by Campino accompanied by Andreas von Holst on acoustic guitar, marks the end of the album.
resonance
The album reached number one on the charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland .
In his review at laut.de, Philipp Krause said that the recording left “a striking, strong impression”. The album would “tire towards the end, but on the way through the set”, “numerous highlights would also prove the creative power of the German punk band.” Krause sums up that Die Toten Hosen “would polish a lot to a new shine” and “ cleverly built in new songs ”. The new album is "not too exciting, but nice".
In the “Music Tip” of WDR 2 it is noted that the question: “Is that still punk rock?” Has not been asked by the Toten Hosen for a long time. Everything without electricity is "a great piece of acoustic art" in which the band would show what they can do musically. And that is "in 2019 much more than 'just' punk rock".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Alexandra Michels: From the punk band to the big band: Die Toten Hosen 'Everything without electricity'. Musikheadquarter, October 31, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b "I am now trying to redistribute my strength." Schwäbische Zeitung , October 22, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. Discogs , accessed November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Kai-Oliver Derks: "At the end of the evenings I always had one in my tea". Prism , October 26, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Alexander Pichugin. Flingern Music School, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Dimitry Pichugin. Flingern Music School, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Georg Sarkisjan. Flingern Music School, accessed on November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Alex Piastro. Bergische Symphoniker , accessed on November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Simón Doggweiler-Menkhaus. hindemith.info, accessed November 9, 2019 .
- ^ A b dpa: "With timpani and trumpets": Die Toten Hosen cover Rammstein. Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 14, 2019, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Booklet to the album
- ↑ a b c d Philipp Krause: This is how the pants make themselves nice storytelling uncles. laut.de , October 25, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ a b dpa : Acoustic album "Alles ohne Strom": Die Toten Hosen surprise as a big band. Stern , October 26, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Birgit Fuß : Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. Rolling Stone , October 30, 2019; accessed November 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. GfK Entertainment , accessed on November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. Ö3 Austria Top 40 , accessed on November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. Swiss hit parade , accessed on November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen - Everything without electricity. WDR 2 , October 28, 2019, accessed on November 13, 2019 .