No happy view
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May 15, 1992 |
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| Label (s) | Strange Ways Records | |||
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CD, vinyl, digital |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
40:27 |
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No Happy View ( English for, no happy prospect ') is the debut album of the German synth pop - duo Wolfsheim .
Creation and artwork
All the pieces on the album were written by the two Wolfsheim members Peter Heppner and Markus Reinhardt, three in collaboration with Carlos Perón. All tracks were mastered and produced in Sound Studio N in Cologne , under the direction of Perón. The album was mixed, arranged and recorded at Musik Design in Aachen , under the direction of the producer trio Nine-O-Nine ( Jose Alvarez-Brill , Gento Navaho and Carlos Perón). The complete recordings had to be completed within three weeks due to limited funds. The album was released under the music label Strange Ways Records and distributed by EFA Medien GmbH Tonträger Produktion. On the black and white cover of the album you can see the two Wolfsheim members in addition to the artist name and album title. The picture was taken at Leisten Photodesign and was carried out by Willy Leisten and his assistant Mischa Haas. The inscription “You'll Never Like WOLFSHEIM” can be found on the back. A 24 × 24 cm booklet contains four black and white photos of Wolfsheim and French poetry.
Publication and promotion
The first release of No Happy View took place on May 12, 1992 in Germany, in the same year the album was released across Europe (including Denmark). Due to the emerging success in the late 90s, the album was released again in 1999. The album consists of eleven new studio recordings and was released on CD and vinyl at the same time . To promote the album, Wolfsheim went on the Zillo Festival Tour in 1992 and the following year on the Strange Ways Festival Tour in 1993 .
content
With the exception of one title, all lyrics are in English. Only the play Kissing the Wall was written in German. The song The Sparrows and the Nightingales contains the repetitive German-language line “Where is the leader who leads me, I'm still waiting”. Musically, the songs move in the realm of dark waves and synth pop . The album consists of eleven newly recorded tracks, three of which were already on previously released demo albums. The songs Kissing the Wall and It's Not Too Late (Don't Sorrow) (previously known as: Don't Sorrow ) appeared on the first demo album Any But Pretty . The song ... Can Manage ... as a solo version on the second demo album Ken Manage . With the new edition of ... Can Manage ... Wolfsheim were supported by the Fetish Park singer Marlon Shy. At Following You they were accompanied by Jose Alvarez-Brill as guitarist. The pieces are all sung specially by Heppner. The voices of Daniela and Melanie from the Stollberger Nightingales can be heard in the background. Gento Navaho was hired as an additional keyboard player alongside Reinhardt.
| # | title | Author (s) | producer | length |
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| 1 | ... Can Manage ... (feat. Marlon Shy) | Peter Heppner, Carlos Perón, Markus Reinhardt | Carlos Perón | 4:05 |
| 2 | Following You (feat. Jose Alvarez-Brill ) | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 4:58 | |
| 3 | Annie | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 4:15 | |
| 4th | Leading Men | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 3:02 | |
| 5 | It's Not Too Late (Don't Sorrow) | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 3:38 | |
| 6th | The Sparrows and the Nightingales | Peter Heppner, Carlos Perón, Markus Reinhardt | 4:40 | |
| 7th | Angry Today | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 3:56 | |
| 8th | Kissing the Wall | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 3:34 | |
| 9 | This time | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 2:56 | |
| 10 | Anybody's Window | Peter Heppner, Carlos Perón, Markus Reinhardt | 3:09 | |
| 11 | Lists! | Peter Heppner, Markus Reinhardt | 2:14 |
Single releases
A year before No Happy View was released, the debut single The Sparrows and the Nightingales was released on July 12, 1991 . In February 1992 a maxi single for It's Not Too Late (Don't Sorrow) was also released in advance . Both singles missed a chart entry. The song Annie was not released as a single, but was part of the sampler Bouquet of Dreams the year before .
Tours
Strange Ways Festival Tour 1993
| Presentation album | No happy view |
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| Beginning of the tour | December 11, 1992 |
| End of the tour | February 16, 1993 |
| Total concerts (by country) |
 Germany
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| Concerts in total | 9 |
| - | Zillo Festival Tour 1992 / Strange Ways Festival Tour 1993 |
Strange Ways Festival Tour 1994 (1994) |
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The following list is an overview of the concerts Wolfsheim played on the Zillo Festival Tour 1992 and Strange Ways Festival Tour 1993 . The 1992 Zillo Festival Tour was a joint tour with The Invincible Spirit , Eternal Afflict, Catastrophe Ballet and Umbra et Imago . The tour extended from December 11th to 14th, 1992 and took them through four German cities. Two months later, the Strange Ways Festival Tour 1993 followed , which took them through five German cities from February 11 to 16, 1993.
| date | city | Venue | country | event |
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| December 11, 1992 | Bielefeld | PC 69 |
Germany
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Zillo Festival Tour 1992 |
| December 12, 1992 | Leipzig | Plant II | ||
| December 13, 1992 | Hamburg | Market hall | ||
| December 14, 1992 | Frankfurt | Batschkapp | ||
| February 11, 1993 | Hanover Linden-Limmer | Capitol | Strange Ways Festival Tour 1993 | |
| February 12, 1993 | Berlin | Huxley's | ||
| February 13, 1993 | Chemnitz | power plant | ||
| February 15, 1993 | Dortmund | Music Circus | ||
| February 16, 1993 | Wins | Saturn Festival |
Contributors
- Album production
- Jose Alvarez-Brill - mixing , arrangement , guitar (song: 2) , sound engineer
- Peter Heppner - vocals , composer , songwriter
- Gento Navaho - mixing, arrangement, keyboard , sound engineer
- Carlos Perón - Mixing, arrangement, composer (songs: 1, 6, 10) , songwriter (songs: 1, 6, 10) , mastering , music producer , sound engineer
- Markus Reinhardt - keyboard, composer, songwriter
- Marlon Shy - vocals (song: 1)
- Stollberger Nightingales - background vocals
- EFA Medien GmbH sound carrier production - sales
- Music design - mixing, arrangement, recording studio
- Sound Studio N - sound studio
- Strange Ways Records - music label
- Artwork (cover)
- Mischa Haas - assistant photographer
- Willy Leisten - photographer
- Last photodesign - artwork
reception
To date, the album has not made it into any official hit parade. All that is known is that No Happy View sold very well for "underground conditions". Approximately 65,000 copies of the album had been sold by the end of 2001. Due to the huge success in the "underground scene", many print media voted Wolfsheim "Newcomer of the Year" after the album was released.
Trivia
On the follow-up album Popkiller , released a year later, there is a song entitled No Happy View .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfsheim - No Happy View. discogs.com, accessed August 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Online database - musical works. online.gema.de, accessed on August 8, 2015 . (Search required)
- ^ Wolfsheim biography. grimmfrost.de, accessed on April 27, 2017 .
- ^ Wolfsheim - No Happy View. musik-sammler.de, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Various - Bouquet of Dreams. discogs.com, accessed April 23, 2017 .
- ^ Concerts. grimmfrost.de, accessed on August 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Wolfsheim. laut.de, accessed on August 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Dirk Horst: Synthiepop - The soulful cold: Stories of Synthiepop . Books on Demand , 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-3422-9