Gray in gray
Gray in gray | |
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Girls Under Glass feat. Peter Heppner | |
publication | September 11, 1992 |
length | 3:20 |
Genre (s) | Rock , synth pop |
Author (s) |
Axel Ermes , Hauke Harms , Volker Zacharias |
album | Darius |
Gray in Gray ( English for Gray in gray ') is a song by German Dark Wave - and gothic rock - band Girls Under Glass , in cooperation with the German synth pop - musician Peter Heppner . The piece comes from her fourth studio album Darius .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Girls Under Glass members Axel Ermes, Hauke Harms and Volker Zacharias. In collaboration with Michael Vitzthum , they also mixed and produced the song. The arrangement was made under the direction of Vitzthum. The piece was mastered in the Bremen recording studio Studio Nord Bremen . The piece was published under the music label Dark Star, published by Hanseatic MV and Strange Ways Records and distributed by EFA Medien GmbH Tonträger Produktion.
Publication and promotion
The first release of Gray in Gray was on September 11, 1992 in Germany, on the fourth studio album Darius , by Girls Under Class. On September 4, 2001, about nine years after the song was first published, Gray in Gray was republished. The reason for the new recording was an EP from Girls Under Class, which was to serve for promotional purposes in the United States , among other places . It consisted of six titles, including Gray in Gray . This time not only Peter Heppner was involved in the new recording , but this time Heppner was involved together with Markus Reinhardt and their joint music project Wolfsheim .
background information
More detailed information about how the collaboration between Girls Under Glass and Peter Heppner came about is not known. What is known is that Girls Under Class had been under contract with the music label Dark Star (a side label of Strange Ways Records) for a long time at this point and that Heppner and his Wolfsheim project were newly engaged by Strange Ways Records at that time to work on theirs Debut album No Happy View to work.
content
The lyrics to Gray in Gray are in English; Translated into German, the title means "gray in gray". The music and the text were written jointly by Axel Ermes , Hauke Harms and Volker Zacharias. Musically, the song moves in the realm of synth-pop and rock music . The verses are sung by Girls Under Glass front man Zacharias, the refrain by Peter Heppner.
In terms of content, all lines of the first verse begin with the introduction "Gray in Gray" and end with a dreary presentation like "Raindrops explode at blind windows" ( English for 'raindrops popping on the blind window'). The second verse begins with "Black in Black" ( English for Black in Black ') and describes negative things that are black in conjunction with the color. The third verse begins with "Blue in Blue" ( English for Blue in Blue ') and the statement "Falling into isolation" ( English for fall in isolation') before the opening line again begins with "Gray in Gray". The refrains contrast with each other, while the first is to be understood positively, the second refrain rotates exactly in his opinion and is negatively affected.
- 1st stanza, original excerpt
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- 1st stanza, translation
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Contributors
Song production
- Axel Ermes : Mixing , guitar , composer , songwriter, music producer
- Hauke Harms : Mixing, keyboard , composer, songwriter, music producer, drums
- Peter Heppner : vocals , background vocals
- Michael Vitzthum : Mixing, arrangement , music producer
- Volker Zacharias : Mixing, singing, guitar, composer, songwriter, music producer
Companies
- Dark Star: music label
- EFA Medien GmbH sound carrier production: distribution
- Hanseatic MV: Publisher
- Strange Ways Records: Publisher
- Studio North Bremen : Mastering
reception
To date, the song and the accompanying album have not been able to place themselves in any official charts and exact sales figures are also not known. Gray in Gray was included on the French sampler Elegy - Numéro 17 , among others .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girls Under Class - Darius. discogs.com, accessed August 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Girls Under Class - Frozen. discogs.com, accessed August 3, 2015 .