Resurrection (album)
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2004 |
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| Label (s) | Trisol | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
51:23 |
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Tobias Hahn, Dirk Riegert |
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Night shift studio |
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Resurrection is the third studio album by the German band Janus , released in 2004. The individual pieces arelinkedby a thematic red thread . The core content of all pieces are traumatic events and their effect on the human psyche , with a focus on female protagonists.
content
Contrary to popular belief that the resurrection was designed as a concept album about the only named figure Paula , singer Dirk Riegert describes the red thread of the album as more general:
“It's hard to say how this continuity of history came about. It wasn't meant to be a person the storyline revolves around. But it comes across that way and a lot of people interpret it that way, which I was pretty amazed at. One interpretation is, for example, that the songs represent Paula once at the beginning and then at the end ... But it was never intended that way. We just wanted to organize the songs in a meaningful way. Until then, I never expected that people would see a common thread. "
In contrast to earlier publications, Father and Sleeping Dogs , almost all of the texts focus on women. The core of all titles are human borderline situations as well as traumatization as well as the search for and identity.
“Traumatic events such as For example, the death of a loved one in "You Look Like Always" or the nightmare of a dark family secret in "Survival" are the greatest threats to our fragile sanity. All the texts of "Resurrection" move on this border between delusion and the will to survive. "
Riegert describes the title Paulas Spiel , which existed long before the album, as the creative nucleus of the album, around which other pieces with similar content were arranged. After this substantive decision, Janus decided to put the Kafka quote When you stand in front of me in front of the album :
“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know about the pain that is in me, and what do I know about yours. And if I prostrate myself in front of you and cry and tell you, what would you know more about me than about hell, if someone told you that it was hot and terrible. For that reason alone we humans should stand in front of each other so reverently, so thoughtfully, so lovingly as in front of the entrance to hell. "
Riegert explains that, in his opinion, the red thread of the resurrection is "summed up extremely powerfully" by the quote. The Kafka quote should first be placed in front of the lyrics in the booklet . Later, however, the band decided to have the text, slightly changed, with orchestral accompaniment, performed by the radio presenter and radio play speaker Jürgen Neumann.
Almost all of the other pieces deal with the fate of women, either from an authoritative narrative perspective ( Paula's game, The days are getting closer, Paula's dream ) or from the perspective of a close male narrator ( I want his head, broken face, eighty-nine, survival, resurrection ). This common thread, however , is broken with the piece You look like always , which describes a sick visit to a dying friend. In this story, too, there is a woman; but the encounter with the patient's wife and her grief only introduces the title. Their role decreases in importance as the piece progresses, so that at the beginning of the third stanza the piece deals with the thoughts and feelings of the first-person narrator:
The world without you, the thought slips away from me.
So close and yet a strange world.
We never learned
to hold the other when they fell.
We cling to the silence
like a glimmer of hope,
and we dance our dance
Do not let go.
- Dirk Riegert - You look like always
According to Riegert, despite the break in content, the piece represents the "ideal link between the spirit of optimism at the end of survival and the swan song in the title song."
style
The album is mainly assigned to the New German Hardship . In addition, the band uses a variety of other musical styles and arranges e.g. For example, the title Shard Face is about big beat rhythms or comes up with a massive orchestral arrangement in the title track Resurrection . Almost all the pieces were recorded with an abundance of guest and studio musicians. Only eighty-nine , which was created on the day of the final mixing, was recorded by Tobias Hahn and Dirk Rieger alone.
Small fears
Shortly before the album was finally finished and after three years of work on Resurrection , Trisol expressed the wish to release a bonus CD. Janus, on the other hand, didn't want a quick release and couldn't get used to the idea of a simple bonus CD.
"A few remixes, live bootlegs and unreleased demos didn't seem very tempting to us."
However, after Oliver Graute from the role-playing game publisher Feder & Schwert contacted the band with a request, the band's attitude to the release of a bonus CD changed. Graute, who was responsible for the layout of the entire CD, asked the band to write some songs for the publication of the role play Kleine Ängste, which was then newly published by Feder & Schwert .
“A few weeks and daring ideas later, we had seven completely new songs that set a story I wrote about KLEINE ÄNGSTE to music and some excellent drawings by Oliver Schlemmer, which together with the songs and the story form a unit in the best JANUS tradition. "
The bonus CD Kleine Ängste , including a 28-page booklet, limited to around 3000 copies, was included with the first edition of the album Resurrection . As a further bonus, the band released the story on a CD limited to 666 copies. In this version, which was only available on the band's own website, the story appeared as an audio book spoken by Reinhard Schulat-Rademacher .
Artwork
The entire creative design was the responsibility of the Italian artist Alessandro Bavari, who was already responsible for the creative design of the Tea Party album The Interzone Mantras . His picture Nuove Progenie inspired Dirk Riegert to design the album for him. Oliver Schlemmer, who had already designed the previous albums Father and Sleeping Dogs , contributed to the design of the audio book. Schlemmer created the cover for Kleine Ängste together with Marko Djurdjevic. Oliver Graute from Feder & Schwert was responsible for the complete layouts and fonts.
criticism
Lars Schubert from the music magazine DNA Six calls Resurrection "a rollercoaster ride through the human emotional cosmos that often seems to play underground." In the music magazine Orkus, Peter Sailer gave the album 10 out of 10 possible points and calls it the "perfect interplay of music and Text ”and“ a dark trip, which on the one hand weighs heavily on the soul, but on the other hand is just as powerful as it is soulful. ”Sailer added to the criticism for Zillo magazine and highlighted the texts here. They were among the best in the thematic context of the album and were "at the same time direct and apt and metaphorical and veiled". Thorsten Kübler from Sonic Seducer magazine summarizes the album and describes it as "independent and beyond any doubt".
Playlists
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Record Review on Resurrection. In the music magazine Orkus issue March 22, 2004, p. 69f.
- ↑ a b 1st part of the Janus interview on SubKultur.com ( memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Janus interview on King-Asshole.de
- ^ Franz Kafka: Letters 1902-1924. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-14300-4 , p. 19.
- ↑ a b Dirk Riegert: Accompanying information to When you stand in front of me on beinhaus.de
- ↑ Information in the booklet accompanying the CD
- ↑ Dirk Riegert: Accompanying information on You look like always on beinhaus.de
- ↑ a b Record Review on Resurrection. In the music magazine Sonic Seducer, issue 04/2004 March 2004, p. 121.
- ↑ Dirk Riegert: Accompanying information to eighty-nine on bone house.de
- ↑ a b c d Janus interview on Hörspiegel.de
- ↑ Information about the participating artists on beinhaus.de
- ^ Schubert, Lars: album review in the music magazine DNA Six. March 2004, p. 95.
- ↑ Sailer, Peter: album review in the music magazine Zillo . March 2004, p. 66.
