Carefully selected moments
| Carefully selected moments | |
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| Studio album by monochrom | |
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Publication |
June 10, 2008 |
| Label (s) | monochrome / consolation records |
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Pop , alternative rock , electronic dance music , electronica , glitch |
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Title (number) |
17th |
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running time |
73 min 8 sec |
| occupation | Johannes Grenzfurthner , Roland Gratzer , Evelyn Fürlinger, a. a. |
Carefully Selected Moments is a compilation album released by monochrom in 2008, the aim of which was to present a broad compilation of the artist group's musical output .
About the album
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of monochrom , the group members decided to release a CD ("a dead medium") that was supposed to compile a variety of pieces of music that have been used since 1993 for art projects, live shows and theater and musical performances written and recorded. Some of the songs were released on the album in their original version and some were recorded for the first time for the album. Some songs have been reinterpreted or remixed by musicians and music formation for monochrome. It is not a "best of" album in the classical sense.
In most cases the singing was recorded by members of monochrom , such as Johannes Grenzfurthner , Roland Gratzer and Evelyn Fürlinger.
The album brings together a variety of different genres such as: B. Country music , pop music , electronic dance music and experimental approaches. The singing is partly in German and partly in English and is decidedly left-wing political . The songs deal in a humorous and provocative way with topics such as mass surveillance , refugee problems , criticism of capitalism and heteronormativity . The booklet is in English and gives a detailed insight into the background and the historical-artistic context of the pieces.
The subtitle of the album is "Schmäh und Magic" and refers to an anecdote that is told in the booklet. The group sought permission from the band Opus to publish the song "Lessig ist lässig" - an homage to Lawrence Lessig and musically based on " Live Is Life ". Opus declined on the grounds that the piece of music had "neither smear nor magic".
The album was financially supported by the Austrian Music Fund and the SKE Fund (Social & Cultural Institutions of Austromechana) . The Viennese label Trost Records took over the distribution .
- Song examples
- Let's Network It Out (Flat Nashville Hierarchy Version) and Tonki Gebauer: Song (Excerpt) were originally recorded as part of the Georg Paul Thomann project . The former is a broken hymn to "networking" in the post-communist world.
- Could It Be and Waun i schiaß were originally part of monochrom's stage musical Udo 77 (about Udo Proksch ), but were re-recorded in the studio. The former is a love song between two homosexual subroutines in a computer system.
- The Oxo grid. An Electronical Palimpsest is a reggae cover version of the song "Oxo la terre" from Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages by Raymond Lefèvre , which was recorded live in 2001 on the B72 in Vienna .
- Hello Lando is a first publication and deals with Pope Lando , the "least important Pope" in history for monochrome.
- Lidl Girl is a newly recorded pop love song about a protagonist who finds himself in a precarious, creative industrial work situation, who raves about the regular work processes and times of a Lidl cashier.
Artwork
The cover shows a salt lamp , known from the esoteric scene , which is collaged on a terry towel. In the press release on the CD, the terry towel speaks in first person:
- I am the old salt lamp that nobody likes. I live a cobwebbed life of dust and debasement stuffed in closets and garages. I go for a measly three bucks at yard sales. And yet I still cling to the dream of someday becoming hip and retro for a few years. So I was very happy when the Vienna-based art group monochrom asked me if I would like to be on the cover of their Greatest Hits album 'Carefully Selected Moments'.
Both objects stand for monochrome for the past, an ironic reference to the nostalgic value of compilation albums.
reception
The album has been reviewed and analyzed in music magazines and academic publications.
Track list
- Garz (feat. Der Schwimmer) - 4:00
- Waun i schiaß revisited ( feat.Max Of Prey) - 4:48
- eBay the force ( feat.Hans Nieswandt ) - 5:20
- Could It Be - 4:45
- The Oxo grid. An Electronical Palimpsest (feat. Electronič) - 3:15
- The main reasons - 4:28
- Killing Capitalism With Christmas (feat. Gerald Votava and GameJew) - 2:56
- Flowers (feat. Matthias Kertal) - 1:58
- Farewell To Overhead (Which Was A Popular School Broadcasting Technique Back In The Old Days) - 5:00
- Hello Lando - 1:09
- Lidl Girl - 5:32
- Let's Network It Out (Flat Nashville Hierarchy Version) - 3:14
- myfacespace.com (feat. GameJew) - 6:48
- Im söbn Boot (feat. Opposing voices ) - 3:18
- The oide Celtic Frost - 2:15
- The morality of Parati - 5:19
- Tonki Gebauer: Song (Excerpt) - 9:14
Web links
- Official project page
- SRA page about Carefully Selected Moments
- Carefully Selected Moments at Discogs
swell
- ↑ 15 years monochrome . APA. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ↑ An Schmäh und a Magic , in: Datum, 07-08 / 08, page 83
- ↑ carfully Selected Moments . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ↑ Carefully Selected Moments. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Mühl: Carefully Selected Moments: Out of competition . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ↑ Ulrike Bergermann: Men, lean back under your mustache . In: Tension: mixed texts . ISBN 978-3-643-11089-3 , pp. 286-296 .
- ↑ Gerhard Stöger: "Carefully Selected Moments" of monochrome . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ↑ Scott Beale: Carefully Selected Moments, Songs by monochrome . Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Carefully Selected Moments" , in Review: Trust (Print Edition August 2008)
- ↑ Monochrom's Greatest Hits CD. Retrieved March 8, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ cine: plom: monochrom: "Carefully Selected Moments". Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Korrupt: Monochrome again: Carefully Selected Moments (CD review). In: Tales from the Mac Hell. January 3, 2009, accessed on March 8, 2019 (German).