Renaissance (Stress Album)
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Renaissance is the third solo album by the Swiss rapper Stress . It was released on February 16, 2007 on the Universal Music label . Renaissance was the musician's first publication to reach number one on the Swiss album charts. Overall, the album stayed in the charts for over a year and a half. When Renaissance reached platinum status with over 30,000 units sold, a new version of the album was released under the name Renaissance Platinum Edition . In addition to two additional songs, the Platinum Edition also includes a bonus DVD with recordings of live concerts and a documentary about the creation of the album.
The title Renaissance (French for: "rebirth") refers to the epoch of art and culture of the same name . With both the title and the cover, the rapper wants to refer to the fact that "old Switzerland" is dead and to take action against political conservatism .
“It means the rebirth of Switzerland. For me there is a new Switzerland. Good old Switzerland is dead. The new Switzerland is more cultural, more flexible and independent. It also means a personal rebirth, because I am also going through a new private situation. "
background
In 2005, after a year and a half of work, Stress released his second solo album, July 25th , 2003 , which stayed in the Swiss album charts for more than a year and reached number 3 as the highest place. When the sound carrier reached gold status, a special version with the title 07/25/03 Gold Edition was released.
This was followed by the breakup of the hip-hop group Double Pact , which Stress had also been a part of. The band split to support the successful solo careers of each artist. Double Pact released a best-of album called Au Revoir in 2006 before Stress began working on Renaissance . At the same time, the producers of the film Breakout asked him to turn the music into a film. For this purpose he selected songs from his two solo albums Billy Bear and 07/25/03 as well as pieces that had been created for the new album and some tracks from Double Pact. Stress and his team, consisting of the singer Karolyn, the rapper Nega and the producer Yvan Jaquemet, were under enormous time pressure, which increased when the rapper took on a dominant supporting role in the film and was therefore also busy with the shooting .
Track list
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Most important songs
Corn où?
This is the second single from the album. Stress verbally attacks the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP) and its then Federal Councilor Christoph Blocher . In 2005 he released a song called F * ck Blocher and was then asked to apologize by the SVP Young Party . In Mais où he particularly addresses the SVP's voting methods (see also: Schäfchenplakat ). He is of the opinion - and wants to express this - that the SVP is manipulating the people with provocative and sometimes racist campaigns.
“The current campaign with the sheep and all the things they're doing right now really piss me off. […] The message that the SVP is spreading is unsustainable. That does nothing for this country except to want to separate us, to bring the cohesion to zero. To be honest, keep it up: "Fuck Blocher". "
The video clip for Mais où? won the Swiss Music Award in the Best Videoclip National category in 2008.
Avenues
Featuring : Karolyn. Avenues is the first single from the album and the official soundtrack for Breakout . Stress deals with the loss of a loved one, which also dominates the plot of the film. A video clip was shot for Avenues , which shows the rapper in a church and how he drives a car along a country road. In between, scenes from the film can be seen.
Avenues entered the Swiss singles charts at number 47 on January 28, 2008 and reached number 4 as the highest ranking.
Rester soi-même
In the third single from the album, the rapper calls on you to stay yourself and not to give in to external influence. The video clip was shot during live performances and in the backstage area. As with the musician's first single, Billy Bear / Ma Musique Meurt , the video combines excerpts from two songs, namely Rester soi-même and Mode de vie .
Ma Suisse
Featuring : Gimma & Baze. The song begins with a call from the rapper to an employee of the federal administration , who he asks for Christoph Blocher's cell phone number. In the actual song, Stress and the two dialect rappers Gimma and Baze make fun of the clichés of Switzerland and emphasize that "old" and conservative Switzerland is "dead". Finally, Stress calls the Bundeshaus again and asks for Christoph Mörgeli , whom he wants to give tickets for a stress concert.
On n'a qu'une terre
Stress only developed and released this single after the release of Renaissance . On n'a qu'une terre (Eng .: “We only have one earth”) was created in collaboration with the retail group Coop . In the song, the rapper takes up the topics of environmental pollution , scarcity of resources and global warming . He denounces humanity, but emphasizes that he feels guilty about himself, especially towards the next generations. A video clip was also shot for the piece. To do this, the artist traveled with a film team to Kazakhstan , where they recorded the video in the drying Aral Sea , near a rusted shipwreck . According to the rapper, the fact that the desert-like filming location used to be a huge lake is intended to underline the urgency of environmental rescue. The beginning of the music video is used as a co-op advertisement.
illustration
The cover of the Standard Edition shows a night scene in a cemetery . Stress wears a black suit and sunglasses and has a bouquet of flowers in his hand. He stands in front of a tombstone with the word Suisse on it and 1291-2006 underneath . This is supposed to underline the title of the album as well as some songs like Mais où or Ma Suisse and show the conservative, original Switzerland as "dead". The album comes with a booklet which contains the lyrics to Mais où , Mélodies de nos vies , 07/20/03 , Ma Suisse and Zone as well as photos of the rapper.
The cover of the Platinum Edition only shows the rapper's face, in white and with shaded eyes and edges, on a black background. The lyrics to On n'a qu'une terre and a table of contents of the bonus DVD have been added to the booklet . The back cover has also been changed. In addition, the Platinum Edition is presented in a more elegant case.
Platinum Edition
Due to the great success of Renaissance and the singles that went with it, Stress decided to release a special version with two additional bonus tracks and a DVD , as with the previous album July 25th , 2003. In addition to the single On n'a qu'une terre , a “5 heure du matin” version of Elle & Moi was added to the track list. The instrumental line-up is identical to that of the original. The Platinum Edition received a new cover and the accompanying booklet was expanded. The bonus DVD shows the four music videos extracted from the album, as well as an eleven-minute documentary about Stress's trip to Kazakhstan and the recording of the video for On n'a qu'une terre . Another documentary lasts half an hour and shows the work on the album and the film Breakout , deals with the concerts and introduces the rapper's live band. In addition, Stress and Yvan, among others, have their say in interviews. The Platinum Edition also contains a compilation of the recordings of five major live performances.
The Platinum Edition was released on November 16, 2007.
reception
Chart success
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On March 4, 2007, Renaissance entered the Swiss album charts at number 1. At the beginning of June the album had dropped to 91st place, but was able to achieve better placements again in August and September and once again reached the top ten thanks to the release of the Platinum Edition in December and January. Renaissance remained in the charts until October 5th, 2008, with two short and one longer interruptions over the next few weeks. On March 15, 2009 the album was finally at number 96.
The single Avenues rose to number 47 on January 28, 2007 in the single charts. In the fourth week, the title made it into the top ten for the first time in 8th place, and in the fifth week it reached 4th place. Overall, the single stayed in the charts for 19 weeks. The last place was rank 71.
Rester soi-même started on August 12th of the year of publication as first place on the 24th place in the single charts. In the third of a total of 26 weeks, the best rank, 16th place, was achieved. The title was last seen on February 10, 2008 at number 89.
The single On n'a qu'une terre , which was initially released independently of the album and can also be heard on the Platinum Edition, entered the Swiss single charts on October 28, 2007 at number 14. From the 2nd to the 12th week of the chart, the title was among the ten best-selling singles. From then on, the single stayed in the charts with a total of nine interruptions until December 13, 2009.
Awards
The musician's third solo album reached gold status seven days after its release and platinum status after ten days, with more than 30,000 units sold. For a long time, Renaissance retained the double platinum level it achieved in mid-2007, but the publication has now triple platinum. Over 100,000 copies of the album were sold in Switzerland.
On February 27, 2008, the first Swiss Music Award was presented in the Kaufleuten restaurant in Zurich , which is to become Switzerland's most important music award in the future. The rapper was able to win in three of the ten categories; with Renaissance for Best Album Urban National was selected and the single On n'a qu'une terre the title Best Song National received. Corn où? received the award for the best national video clip .
Production and music
The main producer of Stress' third solo album was Yvan Jaquemet, who formed the hip-hop group Double Pact with Stress and the rapper Nega and uses his first name as an artist's pseudonym as a producer. He provided the background music for a large part of the titles and acted as guitarist on the piece Billyzeries . Zone and Comment were produced by Version F, the latter in collaboration with Yvan. Producers G. Whurman and Totorhead are responsible for the beat for Elle & Moi . Sensay produced Ma Suisse and Jayem created the music for Musique de zoo together with Yvan.
Simon Adoboli, who also accompanies the rapper on his concert tours, played guitar for the songs Mode de vie , Rester soi-même , Billyzeries , Nos guerres civiles and Comment? , Totorhead for Moutons , Nous contre eux and On n'a qu'une terre . Vulzor contributed the electric bass to Moutons . On Elle & Moi also Bio Virginie Favre as a violinist and Sarah Oswald are a drummer to hear as cellist. The technique of scratching is used by Green Giant in Track Mode de Vie .
Karolyn and Soraya were responsible for the backing vocals and the choir singing. Karolyn also played important roles in three titles and was referred to as a guest musician there. Dynamike sings the hookline in the title Mélodies de nos vies , Chris Wicky in Nous contre eux . G. Whurman and Claire Huguenin take on this role in Elle & Moi .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Issue date. Exlibris.ch
- ↑ Interview with the artist Hitparade.ch
- ↑ a b c Documentation on the bonus DVD of the album
- ↑ Report on Stress. cultural place
- ^ Website of the Swiss Music Awards ( Memento of the original from February 22, 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.
- ↑ German lyrics of Avenues . Magistrix.de
- ↑ About the single On n'a qu'une terre . ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2008 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. Stressmusic.ch
- ↑ The Platinum Edition was released
- ↑ Charts CH
- ↑ Chart history of Renaissance
- ↑ Chart history of Avenues
- ↑ Chart positions by Rester soi-même
- ↑ Chart positions by On n'a qu'une terre .
- ↑ Platinum after ten days. ( Memento from September 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) VivaTV.ch
- ↑ Number of units sold. Bilanz.ch
- ↑ Swiss Music Award prizes. News.ch
- ↑ Booklet of the album
