Loud & quiet
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| Pyranja studio album | ||||
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February 10, 2006 |
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| Label (s) | Pyranja Records | |||
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CD / 2-LP |
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
47 min 17 sec |
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Roman Preylowski, Jimmy Ledrac, Greg Danielz |
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Laut & Leise is the third album by rapper Pyranja . It was released on February 10, 2006. The only single release was Never Again , which reached number 87 in the charts.
Emergence
The album was created without any firm planning. In September 2005 Pyranja received a call from ProSieben asking if she would like to represent her home state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 initiated by Stefan Raab . The rapper was of the opinion that a single was not enough for a promotion. The piece she was supposed to perform was Never Again .
The production company Brainpool , which is responsible for ProSieben among other things, made its decision to admit the artist for the competition ultimately dependent on the corresponding single, although the selection of artists from the state was rather small. After the single was finished, the company finally accepted in November of the same year.
Initially, Alphabeatz should take over the production, but they just moved their studio. For this reason, Roman Preylowski took over this due to lack of time. The songs and the recordings were made in a relatively short time due to the circumstances mentioned: the pieces were written in October and November, and in December the recordings took place within two weeks. Pyranja wanted it to be finished before she was totally guest on Raab's show TV , which featured each participant in the competition beforehand. With her own claim to make a qualitatively good album despite the short time available, in which an artistic development could be seen, she was also under additional pressure.
The Bundesvision Song Contest itself took place on February 9, 2006 in the Hessian city of Wetzlar , as the year before the band Juli from Hesse had won the competition. Pyranja achieved eighth place with a total of 50 points, which up until then was both the highest number of points and the best placement in the state in a Bundesvision Song Contest.
Texts
The album title Laut & Leise is taken from a line of text from Männer & Jungs ( "Pyranja remains number one, whether loud or quiet." ). Guest contributions on the album come from, among others, Olli Banjo ( Nur so ), Dra-Q ( Brennpunkt ) and Schivv ( True Romance ). Lyrically the album was a bit more diverse and personal than Pyranja's previous albums. For example, there are pieces on Laut & Leise that can be assigned to battle rap ( Fiese Panzer , Männer & Jungs , Nur so ).
Autobiographical
In Auf & Ab, Pyranja raps about the ups and downs of her career so far. It starts with how it started in the mid-1990s and how she founded her own record company; at the same time she addresses her experiences ( "But if the world doubts you, you have to learn to love her. That's why I keep my head up, don't stop believing in myself. I have to do everything I do, only trust my stomach. " )
Vom Ossi zum Star deals ironically with their East German origins ( “I have crooked teeth and a big ass.” ) And uses stereotypes according to which the local residents have on average a lower social status, and presents their already achieved level of awareness as Contrast opposite. MV (Abbreviation for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) is a kind of ode to her homeland, at the same time it is a kind of “competition song” for the Bundesvision Song Contest. I wanted to be about her previous dreams in life ( “I wanted to save the world. It was everything planned. But there was always something in between up to the present day. I wanted to fly to the moon and touch the stars and I wanted to burn up like a comet in the atmosphere. " ), which, however, mostly did not come true and was rejected again ( " I wanted everything, but I didn't find it, but I jumped into the deep end on my own. I want to go from the bottom up and that's why you hear me now, because all I've ever done was rap. " )
In 1929 she tells about her grandfather and his difficult time in World War II . He had died a year before the album was released, which had really bothered her. While she already had the concept for this piece in mind, it was very difficult for her to write the lyrics down as they tell a true story. When the recording was made, the rapper had tears in her eyes. According to her own statements, it is therefore the only song on the entire album that she cannot listen to, although she does not regret having written it.
love
The track "Never again" appeared on the single in a different version than on the album; the album version was a little longer, including a piano intro. Musically it tends towards crossover with its partly very hard electric guitar , which is played by Olli Banjo . The guitar was initially recorded with synthesizers , but Pyranja - just like everyone else who had been involved in the recording - was of the opinion that this variant sounded too much like pop . The chorus is sung by Larissa Lindo , but it is not officially listed as a feature. The text is about a broken love that was never really a real one ( "I put the cards on the table. I never really loved you." )
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In addition, the same song is included in the so-called Greg Danielz Remix at the end of the record, which is supplemented at the end by a rap verse by Kimoe , in which Kimoe takes on the role of the spurned lover ( “Believe me, I don't want it all to happen will end ” ). It differs from the other two versions mainly in the lack of electric guitars, a modified piano riff and a significantly more melancholy atmosphere.
If you only knew it is about a secret passion of an unnamed counterpart, with the line in the chorus “And if you go, come back. You drive me crazy. ” Deliberately speaks with an Eastern European accent and the word“ crazy ”rolls the R; Likewise, the grammatical mistake in the sentence "You drive me crazy" is intentional in order to underline the accent.
True Romance , a duet with Schivv , deals with lovesickness ( We used to be able to talk for hours. Now we are silent and have nothing more to say. I gave you more than my love. Today I am just your huge crisis in life. There was no reason for me to see you again. )
illustration
The cover and the rest of the photos are from the photographer Katja Kuhl. The first shows the artist with a yellow baseball cap, pink hooded sweater and - from the viewer - head turned diagonally to the right. On the lower half of the picture is the name of the rapper in white, rounded block letters that are reminiscent of cursive and sometimes appear "scratched off". Underneath is the album title and the playing time of the CD in yellow, much smaller font.
The dominant background color of the booklet is black, and spotlights can be seen in the background. Notes on the pieces can be found in the middle of the booklet.