Kill to Get Crimson
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September 17, 2007 |
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CD |
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12 |
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56:55 |
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Mark Knopfler, Chuck Ainlay, Guy Fletcher |
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Kill to Get Crimson ( English for: " Murder to get Crimson ") is the fifth solo album by the British musician Mark Knopfler . It was released on September 17, 2007.
background
Kill to Get Crimson is a rock album that consists of 12 tracks and has a running time of 56 minutes and 55 seconds. In title no. 8 “Let it All Go” Knopfler explains the obsession of a painter who would kill to get carmine on his spatula ( ... I'd kill to get crimson on this palette knife ... ). Knopfler said that he was “trying to shed some light on what it actually means when you make painting your only and absolute purpose in life. Yes, what that actually means! It was very important to me that I look at this topic in a different time; because the record is ultimately about someone who was about as popular back then as Damien Hirst is now, although I mean the late thirties. So it's about creativity and glory in times of war. "
The painting "Four Lambrettas and Three Portraits of Janet Churchman" by the British painter John Bratby from 1958 can be seen on the CD cover .
Track list
- True Love Will Never Fade - 4:21
- The Scaffolder's Wife - 3:52
- The Fizzy And The Still - 4:07
- Heart Full Of Holes - 6:36
- We Can Get Wild - 4:17
- Secondary waltz - 3:43
- Punish The Monkey - 4:36
- Let It All Go - 5:17 am
- Behind With The Rent - 4:46
- The Fish And The Bird - 3:45
- Madame Geneva's - 3:59
- In The Sky - 7:29
Reviews
- Ralph Geisenhanslüke wrote in Der Tagesspiegel that the songs on the new album “ seem like meditations, so leisurely and withdrawn that only experts dare to do. “However, he wrote that he“ remains well below his guitarist potential, scattering a few spicy licks at best like a chef, otherwise he prefers to leave the field to the subtly used instruments: accordion, tremor, vibraphone or flute. Knopfler can do everything, but he doesn't have to. A clear case of gentleness in old age. "
- Christoph Andert wrote in the Kronen Zeitung that “Kill To Get Crimson” is a remarkable record with crisp rhyming lines that reveal their ambiguity and poetry only after listening for the second or third time.
Web links
- Album review on laut.de
- Interview with Krone.at
- "Kill to Get Crimson" on tagesspiegel.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ mark-knopfler.co.uk ( Memento of the original from January 6th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ pooltrax.com ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b krone.at
- ↑ a b tagesspiegel.de
