Primroses & Elephants

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Primroses & Elephants
Studio album from Keimzeit

Publication
(s)

April 18, 1995

Label (s) K&P Music / BMG

Format (s)

CD , vinyl LP

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

16

occupation

production

  • Beckmann
  • Uli Hieber (production manager, except for tracks # 5 and # 16)
  • Tino Sowada (production manager for tracks # 5 and # 16)

Studio (s)

  • Audioton Studio in Berlin (except tracks # 5 and # 16)
  • Tracks # 5 and # 16 recorded and mixed in Lütte

Primeln & Elefanten is the fourth album by the German rock music group Keimzeit .

The 16 songs were recorded in October and November 1994, 14 of them in the Audioton studio in Berlin , Windstill and Schone nicht mein Nerven in Lütte . The album went on sale on April 18, 1995.

Frontman Norbert Leisegang subsequently described the style of the group Keimzeit from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s as "Muesli-Chanson-Rock'n'Roll". The album Primeln & Elefanten is perhaps the best illustration of what he could have meant by it: The songs are catchy, very melodic and thoroughly sympathetic; the experiments with South American rhythms from the album Bunte Scharte are continued ( Gott will , Primeln & Elefanten ), but the GDR blues rock also comes into its own again ( lost , daughter B. ). Even waltzes and klezmer sounds can be found on the album ( Schone not my nerves , The axis ). The lyrics are almost always about love and / or partnership. Sensitivities that go beyond this are packed into metaphorical puzzles in which the “learned GDR citizen” can read between the lines as usual. Many fans therefore still consider this album to be the band's masterpiece.

On the follow-up (studio) album In the electromagnetic field, however, the musicians dared to make a radical break with previous stylistic devices; also to get rid of the image of the “identity-creating eastern band”.

With the instrumental piece Lisa , someone other than lyricist / composer / frontman Norbert Leisegang contributed a title to a Keimzeit album for the second time - Ralf Benschu .

Track list

All songs (text and composition) by Norbert Leisegang - except title # 9

  1. With the rain
  2. God wants
  3. The axis
  4. 3/4 moon
  5. Calm
  6. Closer to my heart
  7. Primroses and elephants
  8. Lost
  9. Lisa (instrumental) (composition: Ralf Benschu )
  10. Jungle rhinoceros
  11. Daughter B.
  12. Bergholz-Bergholz
  13. Danube angler
  14. 83
  15. Comedy
  16. Don't spare my nerves
Germination time
Studio albums

Madhouse (1990) • Chapter Eleven (1991) • Colorful Shards (1993) • Primroses & Elephants (1995) • In the Electromagnetic Field (1998) • Smart and Calm Waiting (2000) • The best so far (2002) • 1000 people like me (2002) • private cinema (2004) • stable currency love (2009) • land in sight - retrospective (2010) • Columbus (2012) • mid-summer (2013) • on a donkey into space (2015) • land in sight ( 2016) • Albertine, Keimzeit Akustik Quintett (2017) • The Castle (2019)

Collaboration albums

Rock Music Christmas (2003) • Together (2014)

Live albums

Night performance (1996, 1999) • Mensch Meier (2006)