Gray in gray

Gray in gray
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.

“Gray in gray, raindrops explode at blind windows. Gray in gray, the sky sinks down at sticky roads. Gray in gray, desolation is darkening my mind. Gray in gray, no event stops the slow and long time. " - 1st stanza, original excerpt

“Gray on gray, raindrops pop into the blind window. Gray on gray, the sun is setting over the stuffy streets. Gray on gray, desolation darkens my thoughts. Gray on gray, no event stops slow and endless time. " - 1st stanza, translation

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

1. ↑ Girls Under Class - Darius. discogs.com, accessed August 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Girls Under Class - Frozen. discogs.com, accessed August 3, 2015 .