Niels Frevert
Niels Frevert (born November 8, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German singer and songwriter / songwriter .
Life
Niels Frevert was the singer and songwriter of the Hamburg band Nationalgalerie , which released four German-language albums from 1991 to 1995 on Dragnet, a sub-label of Sony Music . In 1993/94 they caused a sensation with the hit Evelin from the album Indiana and its associated music video on MTV , as at that time German-language music was rarely heard on the British station. In 1996 the National Gallery dissolved.
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Niels Frevert's first solo album of the same name was released by the major label Motor Music and received consistently good reviews, but only achieved moderate sales success.
Niels Frevert's second solo album from 2003, Seltsam öffne mich , was released on the independent label Mural Records , operated by Dirk Darmstaedter , the former singer of the Hamburg band Jeremy Days , among others . The record was co-produced by Christian Neander , who was also involved in some of the titles as a composer and musician.
Frevert has been performing solo since around 2003.
A re-release of the first album for the 10th anniversary with some bonus tracks was released on September 7, 2007, in addition, the compilation Wallpaper 100 was released on the same day on Wallpaper Records , in which Frevert covers the song Pausen by the Paul Dimmer Band and the Frevert -Composition fortune cookie is covered by the band Downpilot . The next album You can let me out on the corner was released on February 29th, 2008 on Wallpaper Records. This album was voted number 44 of the “50 Most Important Albums” of 2008 by Spex magazine . On the Kettcar album Sylt from 2008, Niels Frevert sings the song Am Tisch together with Marcus Wiebusch .
On November 4, 2011, Niels Frevert's album Zettel was released on the floor at Wallpaper Records. In December 2011 he was on tour in Germany and Austria.
His fifth album Paradise of Counterfeit Things has been on the market since August 22, 2014 after switching to the Grönland Records label . It received mostly positive reviews and made it to number 17 in the Rolling Stone Critics' Annual Charts in 2014. Jan Wiele described the album Putzlicht (2019) in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a “masterpiece”. It describes “getting up, moving on in a deep crisis”.
Discography
Albums
- 1997: Niels Frevert
- 2003: Strange open me
- 2007: Niels Frevert (re-release with bonus CD)
- 2008: You can let me out on the corner
- 2011: Note on the floor
- 2014: Paradise of Counterfeit Things
- 2019: cleaning light
Singles
- 1997: You have to be at home
- 1997: Where to
- 1997: doppelganger
- 2004: When are you coming?
- 2011: I would help you bury a body
Live albums
- 2003: A touch of nothing (concert recording from June 23, 2003 from the broadcasting hall of radio bremen)
Awards
- 2009: Composition Independent German Music Author Award
supporting documents
- ↑ Charts DE
- ↑ Rolling Stone - The Best Albums and Songs of 2014 , accessed December 29, 2014.
- ↑ Jan Wiele: When the cleaning light becomes the sun. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 13, 2020, p. 10.
- ↑ http://www.tuetensuppe24.de/html_content_platten_solo.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 13, 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.
Web links
- Official website
- Niels Frevert on Facebook
- Unofficial website - Niels Frevert & Nationalgalerie
- Niels Frevert at Wallpaper Records
- Niels Frevert at Discogs (English)
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| SURNAME | Frevert, Niels |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |