My racing heart

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My racing heart
Studio album by In Extremo

Publication
(s)

May 30, 2005

Label (s) Universal Music Group

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Medieval rock

Title (number)

12

running time

48:18

occupation

production

Jörg Umbreit , Vincent Sorg

Studio (s)

Principal Studios, Sending

chronology
7
(2003) 		My racing heart Sængerkrieg
(2008)
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My mad heart is the eighth studio album by the band In Extremo . In addition to the songs composed in High German by the band itself, the album also contains four historical compositions. The musicians used electronically amplified, modern as well as a large number of medieval instruments.

Emergence

In November 2004 In Extremo rented the Principal Studios , a converted former farm in Ottmarsbocholt in the Münsterland . Under the direction of producers Jörg Umbreit and Vincent Sorg , the band recorded the tracks for the album within six weeks. At the beginning of May 2005, the single Nur ihr alone came onto the market, before Mein rasend Herz was released on May 30, 2005 .

Music and lyrics

As with the previous In Extremo albums, both lyrics and music are given as a collaborative effort by the entire band. The band's own texts, which are written in High German, deal with love, pain and death and the vagabond life of the minstrels , the jugglers and the seafarers .

The band is constantly looking for medieval poetry that they reproduce in the original language and interpret musically according to their understanding. The Wessebronner Gebet is an Old High German poem from the 8th century and Tannhuser is a song by the minstrel Tannhäuser from the 12th century, which the band plays with exclusively acoustic instruments. Poc Vecem comes from the troubadour Peire Vidal and is written in Occitan . Here guest musician Robert Beckmann can be heard on the fiddle and as a speaker. For Fontaine la Jolie is a Breton folk song.

The song Liam is a collaboration between In Extremo and the musician Rea Garvey , who gave the song a Gaelic text and also took part in the recordings as a guest singer. It is about the grief of a young woman whose lover perished at sea.

The love song Horizont , which guest singer Marta Jandová sings together with Michael Rhein (“The Last Unicorn”), the front man of In Extremo, is about the remorse of a sailor in the hour of his death.

In their music, the seven-piece band uses electronically amplified musical instruments such as electric guitar , electric bass and drums , which are supported by acoustic and sometimes historical instruments such as three dominant bagpipes , shawms , a harp and a nyckel harpa .

Track list

  1. Rough Seas - 4:29
  2. Horizon - 3:38
  3. Wessebronner Prayer - 4:25 (Old High German poem from the 8th century)
  4. Just you - 3:54
  5. Fontaine la Jolie - 4:37 (Breton folk song)
  6. Power and Stupidity - 4:13
  7. Tannhuser - 3:08 ( Tannhauser )
  8. Liam - 3:48
  9. Racing heart - 4:05
  10. Singapore - 3:53
  11. Poc Vecem - 4:36 ( Peire Vidal )
  12. Minstrel - 3:32

Singles

The single Nur ihr alone from 2005 also contains a live version of the songs Hiemali tempore and Vollmond . The lyrics to Hiemali tempore were handed down in the Carmina Burana and first published by In Extremo in their interpretation in Latin in 1998 on the album Weckt die Toten . The song is about players who, after a drinking bout, roll dice for their clothes in the warm tavern in winter. Vollmond , which was first released as a single in 2000, is a composition by In Extremo and is about vampires.

The second single with the title Horizont was released in September 2005. It also contains the title Spielmanns Wiederkehr and live from the “Burgentour”, the songs Captus est and Mein rasend Herz .

In Extremo's participation in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 with a German version of the song Liam is documented by the single of the same name from February 2006. It contains the song in German, Gaelic and a live version. The CD also contains a video recording of the Federal Vision contribution. The band had reached third place at the event on February 9, 2006 in Wetzlar .

The tour

The concert in Berlin's Columbiahalle on September 24, 2005 as part of the Mein-rasend-Herz-Tour was released on February 10, 2006 on DVD under the title Raue Spree 2005 .

resonance

The album reached third place in the German, 22nd place in the Austrian and 40th place in the Swiss charts. In December 2016, it received a gold record in Germany for more than 100,000 units sold .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IN EXTREMO - My mad heart (album). Add on Music Promotion, November 2005, archived from the original on November 3, 2011 ; Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ www.laut.de: Band biography In Extremo
  3. ↑ Booklet to the album Mein rasend Herz , Universal Music, 0602498718018.
  4. ↑ Interview with In Extremo at metal.de
  5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
  6. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE

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