rain and sea

rain and sea
July
publication	May 2, 2005
length	3:38 (single version) 3:37 (album version)
Genre (s)	Pop rock
text	Jonas Pfetzing, Eva Briegel
music	Jonas Pfetzing, Eva Briegel, Diane Weigmann
Publisher (s)	EMI Music Publishing, Freibank Musikverlag
Label	Iceland
album	It's july

Regen und Meer is a song by the German band Juli . It appeared in September 2004 on their first album Es ist Juli and was released as a single in May 2005.

publication

Like most of the tracks on the album Es ist Juli , which was released on September 20, 2004, Regen und Meer was recorded in Mohrmann's studio in Bochum . After Perfect Welle and Geile Zeit , the song was the third single from the album. Regen und Meer was released as a standard version with four tracks and as Pock it :

Standard version

1. Rain and Sea (Single Version) - 3:38
2. Rain and Sea (album version) - 3:37
3. Rain and Sea (Now 18% more version) - 4:08
4. November (JULY Remix) - 3:08

Pock it

1. Rain and Sea (Single Version) - 3:38
2. November (JULY Remix) - 3:08

Music video

The official music video for Regen und Meer was produced by filmlounge GmbH under the direction of Bernd Possardt and Jeffrey Lisk and with cameraman Felix Storp. In addition to the band members, the actor Oliver Korittke plays a leading role. The video plays - as evidenced by the timestamp of a surveillance camera and superimposed newspaper clippings - in September 1977 in Berlin: The band members represent a terrorist organization, the "July 1st", from which Korittke is kidnapped. In the course of his several weeks imprisonment, Eva Briegel , as the only female member of the terrorist cell, and the kidnapping victim began to develop a tender love story, so that the kidnappers finally had to fight. In the end, their hiding place, an inconspicuous family house, is stormed by security forces and Korittke is freed. Before Eva Briegel and the other band members are taken away in the prisoner transport car, she and Korittke take one last look.

The deliberate content and visual similarity of the video to the German Autumn brought the video attention and some criticism. The picture called the video a "terror video" , which was also taken up critically by the picture blog . The band Juli stated in a statement:

“The video for 'Regen und Meer' was shot in the form of a short film and rather serves to illustrate the lyrics, an impossible love using the example of Stockholm Syndrome . In this respect, the video is about a kidnapping story and the relationship between the kidnapper and the kidnapped person, but not about the Schleyer kidnapping . The story portrayed in our video - like every previous evening thriller - does not end well for the kidnappers, they are arrested and the hostage released safely. "

- July : official statement

Contributors

Song production Eva Briegel : Singing Andreas "Dedi" Herd: Bass Jonas Pfetzing: guitar Simon Triebel : guitar Marcel Römer : drums Olaf Opal : Production , Mixing Oli Zülch: Engineering, mixing

Artwork Ben Wolf: photo Companies Universal Music Domestic Division: Music label Island Records: music label EMI Music Publishing: Music publisher Freibank Musikverlag: Musikverlag Miraphon Management: artist management Mohrmann-Studio, Bochum: recording studio Eike's graphic hoard: artwork

Charts and chart placements

In the German single charts, the title rose to number 31 on May 16, 2005, which was also its highest chart position, and stayed in the charts for nine weeks until July 2005. In the German airplay charts , the single reached the top position for two weeks . In Austria, the song entered the charts on May 15, 2005 and was able to stay there for 15 weeks until September 2005, with the highest position only being reached on August 21 and 28 at number 52. In Switzerland the song did not reach the charts.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	31 (9 weeks)	9
Austria (Ö3)	52 (15 weeks)	15th

Web links

• Music video on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July - Rain and Sea (2005). Crew United, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
2. ↑ point, point, point. BILDblog, May 9, 2005, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
3. ↑ JULY - The band's official statement on their controversial video. musikansich.de, accessed on June 13, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} July - rain and sea. Official German charts, accessed June 13, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Airplay Charts Germany Top 30. surfmusik.de, accessed on June 11, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} July - rain and sea. austriancharts.at, accessed on June 13, 2016 . 
7. ↑ July - Rain and Sea. hitparade.ch, accessed on June 13, 2016 .