Heal Yourself
| Heal Yourself | |
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| New Rock Conference | |
| publication | September 18, 2000 |
| length | 3:52 |
| Genre (s) | Alternative rock |
| Author (s) | Jeff Collier, Dirk Riegner |
Heal Yourself ( English for "Heal Yourself") is a song of the German rock - music project New Rock Conference. The piece is the only musical recording of the project.
Creation and artwork
The song was written by Jeff Collier and Dirk Riegner; the latter also arranged, produced and programmed the single. The mixing and mastering was done by Skyline D'dorf, under the direction of Peter “Jem” Seifert . The piece was recorded in the following recording studios: Skyline D'dorf ( Düsseldorf ), Sound Factory HH ( Hamburg ), Studio Mohrmann Bochum ( Bochum ) and Studio N Cologne ( Cologne ). Heal Yourself was released under the Super Sonic Records label, published by Arabella Musikverlag and Radar Musik, and distributed by BMG Music Publishing . On the cover of the maxi single - in addition to artist names and song titles - some of the participating singers can be seen. The photographs were made by Visions Unlimited, the artwork comes from pilz-online.de.
Publication and promotion
The first publication of Heal Yourself took place on September 18, 2000 in Germany. In addition to the radio version, the maxi single contains four further remix versions of the song as a B-side . The remixes come from Tobias Dannappel, Christian Schnettelker and Marco Wolters, among others.
background information
The idea for this project came from Heribert Reipöler, the managing director of the Bochum record label Radar Music. The purpose of the project was to donate the proceeds from the sale of the singles to the Nordoff Robbins Foundation . For this purpose, Reipöler spent six months looking for artists from the alternative scene who would like to support him in this project. The target was a five-digit success, but how many copies were actually sold is not known.
“With this record we want to support the Nordoff-Robbins-Foundation, which helps handicapped, especially autistic children with music therapy…. The Nordoff-Robbins healing method is not supported by any health insurance company. It is of course very important to us musicians and people from the industry to promote such a form of therapy. ""
content
The text by Jeff Collier is written in English and translated into German means something like "heal yourself". The music comes from Dirk Riegner. The work moves in the area of alternative rock and consists of three stanzas, a bridge and a refrain between the stanzas and at the end of the song. These are sung individually by musicians, with Peter Heppner having the longest solo appearance. The chorus is accompanied by all performers. The instrumentalists include Jeff Cascaro on trumpet, Paul Heller on saxophone, Marco Minnemann on drums, Dirk Riegner on keyboard and loops, Marcel Schiborr on guitar and Fabio Trentini on bass.
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Music video
The music video shows the recordings of the piece in the various recording studios. You can always see the respective musicians who are singing their section of the song at the time. In between, small sequences of young skaters , BMX riders and partying concert fans can be seen. The total length of the video is 3:49 minutes.
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reception
To date, the song could not place in any official charts, exact download and sales figures are also not known. Aside from the maxi single, the song is on the samplers of Big Brother - The TV Soundtrack , Crossing All Over! - Vol. 12 , GUN - 10 Years of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll and Still Being Famous! and Just the Best 4/2000 .
- Reviews
The German-language online magazine laut.de described Heal Yourself as a “conventional guitar rock piece with a horn intro” from whose “alternating vocals”, especially the “vibrato voice” of The King , stood out.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b New Rock Conference - Heal Yourself. discogs.com, accessed May 5, 2015 .
- ↑ a b repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on December 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b German alternative elite rocks for a good cause. laut.de, accessed on January 3, 2017 .
- ^ "New Rock Conference": The hard therapy of the rock stars. spiegel.de, accessed on May 5, 2015 .
- ^ New Rock Conference. musik-sammler.de, accessed on May 5, 2015 .