Mortem & Makeup
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| Studio album by Sookee | ||||
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17th March 2017 |
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| Label (s) | Buback sound carrier | |||
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CD, LP, download |
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Title (number) |
14th |
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running time |
46:00 |
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LeijiONE |
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Mortem & Makeup is the fourth studio album by the German rapper Sookee . It was released on March 17, 2017 and was Sookee's first release on the Buback label .
History of origin
Mortem & Makeup is the first studio album since the 2014 album Lila Samt . The songs were created over a period of one year and were recorded under the direction of LeijiONE. Riffsn von Großstadtgeflüster appears as a co-producer . In addition to LeijiOne and Riffsn, the beats also come from Danger Dan ( Antilopen Gang ) as well as Beat 2.0, Majus Beats and do.pe. With the rapper grim104 ( Zugezogen Masculin ) and the singer Charlotte Brandi from Me and My Drummer, there are only two vocal features on the album.
The Q1 video was released on YouTube on January 10th . On March 10th, the second video release Queere Tiere was released . The album was finally released on March 17, 2017 and for the first time on the independent label Buback, after the earlier albums were released on the Springstoff label .
Track list
LeijiONE appears as the producer of Mortem & Makeup . Riffsn coproduced the songs Q1 , Queere Animals , The Cabinet , The Girlfriend of and Who Cares .
| # | title | Guest Posts | Beat | length |
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| 1 | Q1 | LeijiONE | 3:28 | |
| 2 | Queer animals | Timo Sauer (guitar) | Danger Dan | 3:28 |
| 3 | Picture books conference | Majus Beats & do.pe | 3:50 | |
| 4th | The cupboard | LeijiONE | 3:45 | |
| 5 | Loss of control | Beat2.0 | 3:45 | |
| 6th | Forever | Majus Beats & do.pe | 2:48 | |
| 7th | Bouncy castle | Samuel "Männi" Dickmeis (guitar), Hannes Hüfken (bass) | Danger Dan | 3:11 |
| 8th | SSRI | Michael Schlücker (violin / cello) | LeijiONE | 2:57 |
| 9 | The girlfriend of | Danger Dan | 3:32 | |
| 10 | You Only Die Once | Grim104 , Spy Y (Cuts) | Beat2.0 | 2:46 |
| 11 | Son of a bitch | Spy Y (Cuts) | LeijiONE | 2.42 |
| 12 | absurdity | Reefs | 3:14 | |
| 13 | Who Cares | Charlotte Brandi | LeijiONE | 3:13 |
| 14th | Quiet | Michael Schlücker (cello) | Reefs | 3:11 |
Music style and lyrics
Both musically and lyrically, Sookee tries to break new ground with this album. According to her own statement, she has taken the criticism of Vice magazine to heart, which compared her songs with a lecture from her basic sociology studies. Nevertheless, she did not want to say goodbye to the left and queer scene with this album. Rather, Sookee tries to write "approachable and human lyrics". She explained her change in an interview with the daily newspaper :
“I never said: that's it now, boom, I can. I'm socialized very top-heavy when rhyming. My new album is not a farewell to the left, queer scene, but rather an attempt to open up. It's about inviting people to be open to dialogue. My approach was not to go through theoretical deductions, but to tell stories like on “bouncy castle” or “son of a bitch”. Sometimes something autobiographical flows into it, sometimes it's fictional. "
Musically, too, the album is a departure from the usual sound. Although the beat and productions are still more like a mosaic without conforming to a single music concept, Sookee has professionalized in this area:
“The production process was much more intensive than before. Riffs from Großstadtgeflüster, LeijiOne from Beat 2.0 and Danger Dan from the Antilopengang got together and threw beats into the pot, which I then wrote on. We sat together for a few nights and talked about ideas for the drums, melodies or arrangements. The result is still not exclusively boom-bap , brisk synth blasts or reduced trap stuff, but like a mosaic like before. But the production quality is better. It is also interesting that sound is fundamentally difficult to pronounce. But we managed it together quickly. "
The album title is intended to serve as an example of a pair of opposites, with "Mortem" standing for death, while " Makeup " refers to life. Sookee understands the album title as “an allusion to the fact that political and apolitical, trivial and deadly serious mostly happen at the same time.” The Latin is actually flawed. “Mortem” is the accusative singular , the nominative “mors” would have been more appropriate.
The lyrics on the album deal with their usual themes and are directed against sexism , homophobia and xenophobia , but this time the rapper often uses the stylistic element of a change of perspective. The album opens with Q1 , a statement on the shift to the right and the super election year in Germany as well as the social conditions in 2017. This is followed by the song Queere Tiere , which draws parallels between sexual behavior in the animal world and humans. After she had already taken the perspective of a conservative woman in the hook on this track , the next track is a picture book conference from the point of view of a conspiracy theorist . Sookee is so ironic and sarcastic about the scene of the Truther and information warriors. The closet is directed against sexism and homophobia. Loss of control comes in the same direction . Forever is about Sookee's path as a rapper and her relationship to the hip-hop and left-wing scene. In the bouncy castle , Sookee takes on the perspective of a child who grows up in a Nazi family but maintains a friendship with a boy of Turkish origin that his parents disapprove of. The title is based on the family celebrations organized by the NPD , among others . SSRI is about drug abuse by the eponymous antidepressant from the class of serotonin reuptake inhibitors . In the song The Girlfriend of Sookie raps "about the subordination of women in society, in the sense of Simone de Beauvoir , the 'second sex' after men". To do this, she reflects on her own puberty . You Only Die Once is a bitter-sarcastic track with Grim104 as the feature guest. The text refers to the internet as well as the modern hip-hop scene. In the following track son of a bitch, Sookee philosophizes about the swear word of the same name . To do this, she takes the perspective of a young person whose mother is a prostitute . Absurdity describes growing up and also makes special reference to the phase of puberty. Who Cares with guest singer Charlotte Brandi is also campaigning for feminism . The motif of the witch is used , which Sookee also uses for her rapper name, which refers to Sukie in The Witches of Eastwick . The album ends with the track Ruhe , a song about being alone.
reception
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The album reached number 89 in the German album charts, making it the first chart position for the rapper.
Laura Sprenger from Laut.de awarded four out of five stars and stated:
“In the course of the 14 songs you sometimes stumble across a bumpy rhyme or a seemingly misplaced word, which is often due to the fact that the studied linguist emphasizes every syllable very precisely. All in all, Sookee has gone one step further when it comes to flow and technology and is more entertaining and varied than ever. (...) With her fifth album, Sookee masters the balancing act between weightiness and musical quality and takes the listener into a world full of injustice and 'absurdity'. Your antidotes? 'Revolution, liqueurs, love and sandwiches.' "
Thomas Winkler from Musikexpress also awarded four out of five stars and summarized the music and lyrics on the album as follows:
"The beats that Sookee uses to prove that intelligent political rap is possible without being ashamed of others may not always be up to date, but they are firing loud enough to withstand the political weight of the punchlines ."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sooke in an interview: “We are planning an aluminum hat tinker stand for the tour”. Bierschinken.net, accessed on March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Lea Gerlach: Sookee: First video from the new album "Mortem & Makeup". Rap.de, January 10, 2017, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
- ↑ SOOKEE releases new video "Queer Animals". lifeonstage.de, March 10, 2017, accessed on March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d rapper on social criticism: “You live, you die. Done. ” In: the daily newspaper . March 18, 2017, p. 16 ( taz.de ).
- ↑ Interview: Sookee: "My tip against stage fright? Masturbation!" Puls , March 21, 2017, accessed on March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Laura Sprenger: laut.de criticism: Better uncomfortable than superficial. In: Laut.de . Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE . Retrieved March 24, 2017.
- ↑ Thomas Winkler: Sookee: Mortem & Make-up . In: Musikexpress . April 2017, p. 92 .