Get Well Soon

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Get Well Soon
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Get Well Soon in the Ottakringer Brewery in Vienna on March 10, 2016
Get Well Soon in the Ottakringer Brewery in Vienna on March 10, 2016
General information
Genre (s) alternative
Founding members
Konstantin Gropper
Current occupation
singing
 Konstantin Gropper
Live and session members
Guitar, trumpet, glockenspiel
 Maximilian Schenkel
bass
 Timo Kumpf
Violin, singing
 Verena Gropper
Keyboard, glockenspiel
 Marcus Wuest
Drums
 Paul Kenny
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Rest now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
  DE 28 02/01/2008 (4 weeks)
  AT 68 02/01/2008 (2 weeks)
  CH 99 02/10/2008 (1 week)
Vexations
  DE 11 02/05/2010 (3 weeks)
  AT 26th 02/05/2010 (1 week)
  CH 30th 02/07/2010 (1 week)
The Scarlet Beast o'Seven Heads
  DE 19th 07.09.2012 (3 weeks)
  AT 15th 07.09.2012 (3 weeks)
  CH 24 09/09/2012 (2 weeks)
Love
  DE 16 02/05/2016 (3 weeks)
  AT 21st 02/12/2016 (3 weeks)
  CH 47 02/07/2016 (1 week)
The horror
  DE 15th June 15, 2018 (2 weeks)
  AT 27 06/22/2018 (1 week)
  CH 50 06/17/2018 (1 week)

Get Well Soon is a music project by the German singer , songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Konstantin Gropper (born September 28, 1982 in Biberach an der Riss ).

Life

Gropper grew up in the Illertal community of Erolzheim . The son of a music teacher began playing the cello at the age of six and is a classically trained instrumentalist ( piano , cello , drums and guitar ). As a teenager he played in a punk and grunge band called Your Garden . He graduated from high school in Ochsenhausen . He then studied at the Mannheim Pop Academy , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts , and philosophy in Heidelberg. He moved to Berlin; today he lives and works in Mannheim again .

Get Well Soon

Konstantin Gropper began writing and recording music under the stage name Get Well Soon in 2003 while studying . First he produced a few EPs , which he sold in his own distribution during his performances.

On his debut album Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon Gropper worked alone for three years. Since he could not finance studio recordings, he produced all the tracks at home in his bedroom. The album was released in February 2008 and received positive international reviews. It reached number 28 in Germany and in September 2008 also number 92 on the French album charts.

In the studio Gropper recorded most of the instruments himself, while performing live he is played by Maximilian Schenkel (guitar, trumpet, vibraphone), Timo Kumpf (bass), his sister Verena Gropper (violin, vocals), Marcus Wuest / Daniel Roos (accordion, piano , Vocals, vibraphone, glockenspiel) and Paul Kenny (drums).

In 2008 Gropper was featured on the soundtrack for the Wim Wenders film Palermo Shooting with the titles Busy Hope and Good Friday .

Gropper recorded the second album Vexations (German: annoyances ) for the first time in a recording studio together with other musicians. The live recorded album, which, according to Gropper, is a “concept album about stoicism ”, was released in January 2010 and entered the German album charts at number 11 . At the same time an extensive tour began, which took the band through neighboring European countries, Great Britain, Scandinavia and Italy until May 2010.

In 2011 Gropper wrote the soundtrack for the French television series Xanadu , which was shown on Arte in France and Germany .

The third album The Scarlet Beast o 'Seven Heads was released on August 24, 2012. Shortly before that, the video for the track Roland, I Feel You , which is dedicated to the director Roland Emmerich , was released.

In 2013 Gropper produced the successful album Hinterland by Casper .

In September 2014 Konstantin Gropper announced new music in the form of three EPs. These are titled The Lufthansa Heist , Henry - The Infinite Desire of Heinrich Zeppelin Alfred von Nullmeyer and Greatest Hits and were released on November 7, 14 and 21, 2014. Gropper sees the first EP as an homage to the music of the late 1980s and early 1990s that got him into music making. He dedicates the second EP to the author Arnold Stadler , whose book Der Tod und ich, the two of us, influenced him and the guitarless songs. The third EP contains a number of cover songs by George Michael ( Careless Whisper ), Elton John ( Rocket Man ), Riz Ortolani (Oh My Love) and The Beach Boys ('Til I Die), among others .

The fourth album Love was released on January 29, 2016.

The fifth album The Horror was released on June 8th, 2018. Before that, the single Martyrs was released. In addition to the album, a web series was produced and made available for free. The series was produced by the Bildundtonfabrik and consists of three episodes, each with the music from the album. The album was received very positively in the German-language feature pages. Spiegel Online wrote, for example , that it was “an ambitious work that is unparalleled in recent German music”.

Discography

Albums

  • 2008: Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon (CD, LP or "Limited Edition" CD with "Songs Against the Glaciation" EP & 4 videos as a bonus) ( City Slang )
  • 2010: Vexations ( City Slang release: January 22, 2010) (CD, LP or "Limited Edition" CD with 8-track bonus CD)
  • 2011: Xanadu - An Original Soundtrack by Get Well Soon (released: December 16, 2011) (Limited Edition CD - 1000 copies)
  • 2012: The Scarlet Beast o 'Seven Heads (vö: August 2012) (CD, Limited Edition CD with bonus EP or 2 LP)
  • 2016: Love (released: January 29, 2016) (CD, Limited Edition CD with bonus EP or 2LP)
  • 2018: The Horror (released: June 8, 2018)

EPs

  • A Secret Cave, a Swan (2005)
  • My Tiny Christmas Tragedy (2005)
  • Glaciers, Kisses, Apples, Nuts (2006)
  • All That Keeps Us from Giving In (2007)
  • All That Keeps Us from Giving In (4-Track - Remix EP) (2007)
  • Four Songs (Promo EP) (2008)
  • Songs Against the Glaciation (2008)
  • Lists! Those Lost at Sea Sing a Song on Christmas Day (4-Track-CD-R) (Nude Records 2008)
  • Get Well Soon and the Grand Ensemble. Live at the Konzerthaus Dortmund (Download EP) (2010)
  • The Lufthansa Heist (2014)
  • Henry - The Infinite Desire of Heinrich Zeppelin Alfred von Nullmeyer (2014)
  • Greatest Hits (2014)
  • Born With Too Much Love (2016)

Singles

  • If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting (City Slang 2008)
  • Witches! Witches! Rest Now in the Fire (City Slang 2008)
  • Lists! Those Lost at Sea Sing a Song on Christmas Day (City Slang 2008)
  • Angry Young Man (Ltd. Edition 7 ″ Vinyl) (2010)
  • You Cannot Cast Out the Demons (You Might as Well Dance) (Ltd. Edition 7 ″ Split Vinyl with Dear Reader ) (2012)
  • Roland, I Feel You (download single) (2012)
  • It's Love (2015)
  • Too Much Love (2016)
  • Martyrs (2018)
  • The Horror (2018)

Compilation Contributions

  • "If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting" on The Empire Strikes Back ( Glitterhouse 2007)
  • "If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting" on Between the Lines (More Songs from the Blue Bird Diaries) (Universal 2008)
  • "You / Aurora / You / Seaside" on achtung music - new berlin talent ( Berlin Music Commission 2008)
  • "Busy Hope & Good Friday" on Palermo Shooting - OST (2008) as Konstantin Gropper
  • "The World Needs a New ..." and "If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting" on the soundtrack for Contact High (2009)
  • "Garbage Girl Marimba", "Breathing Ringkauf" and a remix of "Easy to Love" ( Slut ) on the soundtrack for Same Same But Different (2010)
  • "Oh Boy" on Oh Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2012)

Collaborations

  • Cello & artwork on "Branches Untangle" - EP (Wallis Bird) (2006) as Konstantin Gropper
  • Artwork (together with Maximillian Schenkel & Wallis Bird) for the album "Spoons" (Wallis Bird) (2007) as Konstantin Gropper.
  • Cello on “Golden” ( Maike Rosa Vogel ) (2008) as Konstantin Gropper
  • "Impresario" (Get Well Soon Remix) of the MBWTEYP song (2008).
  • Backing vocals on “Yonder” (Sometree) (2009) as Konstantin Gropper
  • "This Room (feat. Get Well Soon)" on Call it What You Want by Mikroboy (2009)
  • "Take Me to the Mountains" (Get Well Soon Remix) of the LCMDF song (2011).
  • Singing on "Where We Meet (Whores 'Glory Poem)" on " Whores' Glory EP": by Maike Rosa Vogel (2011) - as Konstantin Gropper.
  • "Let's Write the Streets" on "Variations": together with Hundreds (2011).
  • Vibraphone on "In Dictum" ( Wallis Bird ) (2012) as Konstantin Gropper.
  • Production & Music (together with Markus Ganter) of the album “Stracciatella Now” by the German rapper MUSO (2013) - as Konstantin Gropper.
  • Production & Music (together with Markus Ganter) of the album “Hinterland” by the German rapper Casper (2013) - as Konstantin Gropper.
  • Vibraphone on "Dagobert" (Dagobert) (2013) as Konstantin Gropper.
  • Guitar, string arrangement, string quartet, ukulele, 12-string & composition on "Africa" ​​(Dagobert) (2015) as Konstantin Gropper.
  • "Schulz & Böhmermann - The Original Soundtrack" (together with Kat Frankie ) (2016).
  • Soundtrack of the Netflix series "How to sell drugs online fast" (2019)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
  2. ↑ Allmusic biography
  3. ↑ a b c Chris Miller: Get Well Soon's Konstantin Gropper. (No longer available online.) In: dailymusicguide.com. September 29, 2008, archived from the original on October 19, 2008 ; Retrieved April 29, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailymusicguide.com
  4. ^ Christoph Dallach: Home to Mannheim . In: KulturSPIEGEL . No. 2 , 2010, p. 12 ( KulturSPIEGEL ).
  5. ↑ a b Jörn Schlüter: The deep reason . In: Rolling Stone . No. 183 , January 2010, p. 24 .
  6. ↑ Steffen Hung: lescharts.com - Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon. In: lescharts.com. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Torsten Gross: Get Well Soon - Vexations . In: Rolling Stone . No. 183 , January 2010, p. 88 f .
  8. ↑ Tocotronic with their first number 1 album. In: gfk-entertainment.com. www.gfk-entertainment.com, accessed on April 29, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Get Well Soon. In: love-your-artist.de. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Get Well Soon. In: love-your-artist.de. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Get Well Soon. In: love-your-artist.de. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
  12. ^ "The Horror": Nightmare Ballads by Get Well Soon . In: stern.de . June 11, 2018 ( stern.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  13. ↑ New Pop Releases: Kanye West's Best 20 Minutes . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on June 18, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Frank Sawatzki: Review: Get Well Soons THE HORROR. In: Musikexpress. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Andreas Borcholte, Dennis Pohl: Listened - new music: Sit, you black and brown beast! In: Spiegel Online . June 5, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
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