Balloon heart
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29th August 2014 |
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2014 |
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| Label (s) | Vertigo Berlin, Universal Music | ||||
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CD, download, vinyl |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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Philip Böllhoff, David Ruoff |
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Ballonherz is the debut album by the German rapper Olson . It was released on August 29, 2014 on the Vertigo Berlin label and reached number five in the German album charts and number 90 in Switzerland.
Track list
All titles were created in collaboration between Olson and Philip Böllhoff. In Cornflakes & Trash TV also David Ruoff was involved as a producer.
- My Little Hollywood - 4:41
- The best moment - 3:45
- Paris (Wanderlust I) - 3:34
- Balloon Heart - 4:32
- Megaphone - 3:46
- James Dean - 3:35
- Nobody> We - 4:28
- Tomorrow over - 3:36
- Taximeter - 3:51
- Airplane mode - 3:45
- Cornflakes & Trash TV - 4:20
- Sea (Wanderlust II) - 3:31
- Fireworks - 3:33
Origin & background
Olson wrote the first line for Ballonherz in spring 2012 for the later song The Best Moment . However, not on the instrumental used on the album, but on that of another producer. He played the original version live a few times.
After moving to Berlin , he met several times with producers and songwriters who were supposed to help him adequately implement the version that had grown in his head. Since at the beginning he had little idea of the direction in which he wanted to go stylistically with a balloon heart, he allowed a lot of outside influences and partly included already finished sound sketches in his music. But since it was important to him to be able to represent each line personally, he began to write his own texts and melodies. Through a friend he met Philip Böllhoff from the Beatgees , with whom he initially worked on the record without any financial means. Lyrically he was advised mainly by professional songwriters.
The album tells a completely autobiographical story that includes and summarizes in particular its last two years before its release. The title is based on the song Ballonherz , recorded in 2011 together with DJ Stickle .
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Daniel Schieferdecker wrote in the Juice that Ballonherz is not an ordinary hip-hop album with pop elements, but rather the other way round, a pop album with elements of rap music, but that is not bad news for him. "» Ballonherz «is not only an excellently produced and lyrically sovereign, but above all an extremely coherent album." Olson goes very well with the music and you can tell that he feels comfortable rapping on it. The topics contained would all have "hands and feet" and "the massive barbs that protrude from each individual melody arc, dig tunnel-deep into the auditory cortex ". According to him, personal highlights are the titles Cornflakes & Trash TV and Megafon . With the album, Olson presented "such a large and helium-light" balloon heart "[..] that effortlessly carries away the inherent heaviness of the record without making it forget".
In the Laut.de review by Dani Fromm, she claims "the harmonious atmospheres [of Olson's] tracks develop their pull by themselves". Olson doesn't need any feature guests after her, as he tells his own very intimate story. His penchant for pop has an extremely positive effect and "[s] instead of monotonously tearing down his verses, he [weaves] melodies and harmonies". In her opinion, the female vocals in the song Paris (Fernweh I) are “still an idea too sugary”. The conveyed content goes perfectly with the music and would connect with it without resistance.
Lukas Maierstro Maier from rappers.in also praised what is presented on the album. According to him, it is “really big cinema : topics that have remained young, packaged in a mature, adult sound. Without a flawless and flawless performance, but with a certain portion of characteristically rough flaws that shape and complete "Ballonherz" - an album with an incredible attention to detail . "In his eyes one can identify with Olson's words and a development high point, like imagine this, hardly more beautiful.
Alina Klöpper, who wrote a review for meinrap.de , criticized above all that the productions seem too “polished” to “really touch or even have catchy tune potential”. In doing so, she compares the music contained in it with hymns , but the songs still lack “that certain something that lets the listener switch to repeat”. In the further course she describes balloon heart as "thrown into the world [it] thing". "Nice to look at for five minutes, but then just damn insignificant hot air."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ballonherz: Product detail on universal-music.de, accessed on September 2, 2015.
- ↑ Sascha Ehlert: Bright Lights, Big City in the Juice No. 161, pp. 26-29.
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Switzerland
- ^ Daniel Schieferdecker: Review of Ballonherz in Juice No. 162, p. 113.
- ↑ Dani Fromm: Every beginning has an end. on laut.de .
- ↑ Lukas Maierstro Maier: Review of Ballonherz on rappers.in.
- ↑ Alina Klöpper: Review of Ballonherz ( Memento from September 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on meinrap.de.