Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany

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Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany
Live album from Die Toten Hosen

Publication
(s)

October 30, 2015

Label (s) JKP

Format (s)

Double CD, LP,

Genre (s)

Rock ( unplugged )

Title (number)

27

running time

  • CD 1: 61:09
  • CD 2: 70:28
occupation
  • Guitar:
  • Children's choir of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf under the direction of Dennis Hansel

production

Hans Steingen , Vincent Sorg

Studio (s)

Tonhalle Düsseldorf , Big Noise Studio, Düsseldorf

chronology
The Crash of the Republic
(2013) 		Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany Whim of Nature
(2017)

Degenerate Music - Willkommen in Deutschland is a live album by the symphony orchestra of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the band Die Toten Hosen . It was released on October 30, 2015, produced by Hans Steingen as a double CD and triple vinyl on the band's own label JKP . The edition also includes a DVD with documentation about the creation.

The album was recorded on three concert evenings given by Die Toten Hosen and the symphony orchestra of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf in October 2013 in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle . The concerts were held in memory of the artists who were vilified and persecuted by the National Socialists' cultural policy , among other things with the propaganda show Degenerate Music , opened on May 24, 1938 in the Ehrenhof in Düsseldorf .

Cover and booklet

The table of contents is written on the front cover in white and black letters on a red background. The booklet shows black and white photos of the performers during the concerts in the Tonhalle in October 2013. It contains the texts for the titles A Survivor From Warsaw op. 46 and Sog nit Kejnmal plus a German translation, as well as information on the historical background of all the original titles and biographical information Information about the artists involved in the creation.

Emergence

According to the concept of Thomas Leander , professor at the Robert Schumann University, the band Die Toten Hosen, together with the symphony orchestra of the university under the direction of the conductor Rüdiger Bohn , gave a three-hour memorial concert each on October 19, 20 and 21, 2013 at the sold out Tonhalle in Düsseldorf. Furthermore, the children's choir of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf under the direction of Dennis Hansel was involved in the performances.

At the time of recording, the band consisted of the guitarists Andreas von Holst and Michael Breitkopf , the bassist Andreas Meurer , the drummer Vom Ritchie and the singer and front man of the group Campino . The arrangements for Die Toten Hosen were written by Hans Steingen , with whom the band has been working since 1996, and who had already rewritten a number of titles for the unplugged album Nur zu Visiting .

Inge Du, Vita Gajevska, Thomas Leander and Hans Steingen on the piano, Micea Gogoncea on the guitar, Christina Marzi on the clarinet, Georg Sarkisjan on the violin, Alexander Kovalev on the cello, and Linda Hergarten and Susanne Storck as singers appeared as soloists. Keno Brandt, Julian Freibott , Gereon Grundmann, Jin-Su Park and Campino took over the voices in the a cappella vocal piece Ich muss singen heute , which was first published in France under the title Les fenêtres chantent by the Comedian Harmonists in 1937 .

The publication of the concerts as a sound carrier was initially not planned and was only initiated two years later by Hans Steingen, who mixed and mastered the recordings in his Big Noise Studio in Düsseldorf . Vincent Sorg also mixed various pieces .

All artists involved in the concerts waive their fees, and the record company JKP waives all profits. The income from the project will be used to support scholarship holders and concert projects at the Robert Schumann University.

Music and track list

In addition to the 16-minute instrumental piece from the feature film The Lord of the Seven Seas and Arnold Schönberg's melodrama A Survivor from Warsaw , the 11-minute work Kol Nidrei op.47 by Max Bruch and Remembrances by John Williams from the soundtrack to Schindler's List , the canon song , the pimp ballad and the Moritat by Mackie Messer from The Threepenny Opera , the Alabama song from the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny , the pieces Do you see the plane there and you have to build on friendship from Brundibár , German Miserere from Schweyk in the second World War I , the vocal piece I have to sing today by the Comedian Harmonists, the songs She has a great Nazi! , Come on, Zigany from the operetta Countess Mariza , Sog nit Kejnmal and Sholem-Alekhem, Rov Feidman! The album contains the poems Voices from the mass grave by Erich Kästner , Im Nebel by Hermann Hesse , the song Die Moorsoldaten , created by prisoners of the Börgermoor concentration camp, and the lullaby Wiegala by Ilse Weber .

In addition, the band's own compositions Willkommen in Deutschland and Sascha ... an upright German from the album Kauf mich! from 1993, Das Mädchen aus Rottweil from the album Auswärtsspiel from 2002 and Ballast der Republik , Drei Kreuze (that we are here) and Europe from the album Ballast der Republik from 2012. The pieces were re-recorded especially for the memorial concerts in collaboration with the symphony orchestra.

CD 1

  1. The Sea Hawk-Suite - 16:29 (instrumental piece, Erich Wolfgang Korngold , arranged by Patrick Russ)
  2. The Moorsoldaten - 6:00 am (music and text: Rudi Goguel / Johann Esser and Wolfgang Langhoff )
  3. She has a great Nazi! - 3:35 (Stephan Weiss / Fritz Grünbaum )
  4. Kanonensong - 2:33 from Die Dreigroschenoper ( Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill )
  5. Pimp Ballad - 4:38 from Die Dreigroschenoper (Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill)
  6. The Moritat by Mackie Messer - 4:08 from Die Dreigroschenoper (Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill)
  7. Do you see the plane there - 2:23 from the Prague version of the children's opera Brundibár ( Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister ; with German text by Matthias Harre and Frank Harders-Wuthenow)
  8. You have to build on friendship - 3:29 from the Prague version of the children's opera Brundibár (Hans Krása and Adolf Hoffmeister; with German text by Matthias Harre and Frank Harders-Wuthenow)
  9. Voices from the mass grave - 3:33 (Music: Campino / Text: Erich Kästner )
  10. German Miserere - 2:14 from Schweyk in World War II ( Hanns Eisler / Bertolt Brecht)
  11. Wiegala - 4:42 ( Ilse Weber )
  12. A Survivor From Warsaw op. 46 - 7:25 from A Survivor from Warsaw ( Arnold Schönberg for a speaker, male choir and orchestra; Rev. Jacques-Louis Monod )

CD 2

  1. Kol Nidrei op.47 - 11:17 ( Max Bruch )
  2. Come on, Zigany - 5:26 from Countess Mariza ( Emmerich Kálmán / Alfred Grünwald and Julius Brammer )
  3. Sog nit Kejnmal - 3:09 ( Dmitri Jakowlewitsch Pokrass / Hirsch Glik )
  4. I have to sing today - 2:51 Les fenêtres chantent by the Comedian Harmonists ( Rolf Marbot , Bert Reisfeld / Marc Cab and Henri Eugene Varna , arrangement by Jörg Daniel Heinzmann)
  5. Sholem-Alekhem, Rov Feidman! - 7:04 ( Béla Kovács )
  6. Remembrances - 6:53 from Schindler's List ( John T. Williams )
  7. In the fog - 4:51 (music: Campino / text: Hermann Hesse )
  8. Welcome to Germany - 4:30 ( Michael Breitkopf / Campino)
  9. Alabama Song - 5:25 from the rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny (Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill)
  10. Sascha ... an upright German - 3:00 (Campino, Hanns Christian Müller )
  11. Three crosses (that we are here) - 1:41 (instrumental piece, Andreas von Holst , Vincent Sorg )
  12. Ballast of the Republic - 3:18 (Campino / Campino, Marteria )
  13. Europe - 4:21 (Breitkopf / Campino)
  14. The girl from Rottweil - 4:21 (Campino, by Holst / Andreas Meurer , Campino)
  15. Three crosses (that we are here) recapitulation - 2:21

resonance

The album immediately reached number two on the charts in Germany, seventh place in Austria and seventh place on the Swiss charts.

In his article on laut.de, Alexander Austel gives the band high credit for how “selflessly” they “fit into the structure of an orchestra”, it shows “that professional musicians developed from the former self-taught people”.

Arno Frank, on the other hand, in his review from October 2015 in the Musikexpress, considers “the crossover of high culture, politics and punk that bows to once ostracized songs” to be a “ disservice ”. It is "difficult to take as a record". The presence of the Toten Hosen is "problematic" and "rather dull-roller aesthetics".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Pilz : Campino croaks against the evil in music. Die Welt , October 21, 2013, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Franz Kotteder : Sounds that make you uneasy. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 4, 2015, accessed on May 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Albums and Singles accessed November 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hit parade Austria accessed on November 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ Swiss Hit Parade , accessed on November 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ Alexander Austel: Autodidacts become professional musicians. laut.de , October 30, 2015, accessed November 16, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Arno Frank: The Symphony Orchestra of the Robert Schumann University & Die Toten Hosen Welcome to Germany: “Degenerate Music” . In: Musikexpress . No. 11 , 2015, p. 94 .

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