Schall & Wahn

This article covers the music album "Schall & Wahn". For the novel of the same name by William Faulkner see Schall und Wahn .

Schall & Wahn
Studio album from Tocotronic
Label (s)	Vertigo Records
Format (s)	CD, vinyl
Genre (s)	Indie rock ( Hamburg school )
occupation	Singing , guitar : Dirk von Lowtzow Guitar: Rick McPhail Bass : Jan Müller Drums : Arne Zank
production	Moses Schneider
Studio (s)	Chez Chèrie, Berlin Transporter room, Berlin The Upper Room, Hamburg
chronology Surrender (2007) Schall & Wahn How we want to live (2013)

Schall & Wahn is the ninth studio album by the German indie rock band Tocotronic . It was released as the successor to the successful album Kapitulation on January 22nd, 2010 by Vertigo Records and thus marks the end of the so-called “Berlin trilogy”, consisting of the three albums recorded in Berlin: Pure Vernunft muss nie siegen , Kapitulation and Schall & Wahn . The record contains twelve songs.

Schall & Wahn entered the German album charts at number 1 immediately after its release , making it the first Tocotronic album to top the charts.

The album is named after the novel Schall und Wahn by William Faulkner , who used a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth for the title : “Life… is nothing more than a fable, told by an idiot, full of noise and madness that means nothing. "

Reviews

From the “most varied album to date” ( Wiener Zeitung ) to “The wait for the new album was worth it” ( Berliner Morgenpost ) - the press has largely given positive feedback to the album. Both the Wiener Zeitung and the Badische Zeitung agree: even if a song is called “No more masterpieces”, they have made one.

Matthias Möller from laut.de writes about the album:

"No doubt," Schall Und Wahn "is another masterpiece in the oeuvre of a band that is obviously not willing to afford failure."

Jan Wigger writes for Spiegel Online : “With“ Schall & Wahn ”these chronically uncomfortable refusal artists succeed in their quirkiest, craziest, bloodthirsty and most striking work reminiscent of the white album“ Tocotronic ”[…]” and “[…] oscillates between pure genius ("The blood on my hands"), wild madness ("Storm the castle"), highly comical crazy ideas ("Please oscillate") and death waltzes [...] ".

The Hamburger Abendblatt reports: “With the record 'Schall & Wahn', which is now out, the band moves between high culture and joke.” And “That the mannered works truly, the fairy-tale real and the stupid subtle, that's the delight of this one Plate."

Dirk Peitz from Die Zeit comments critically: "And so the band strolls through their meanwhile great musical possibilities without creating a compelling inner context.", "[...] the battle cries lack a recognizable goal, a catchy opponent, a concrete cause. "And" But precisely where Tocotronic has not been suspected for a long time, they make the breakthrough again: on the fun front. "

Cover design

The cover shows a bouquet of flowers by the Dutch artist duo Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij called Bouquet IV from 2005.

Singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Schall & Wahn   DE 1 02/05/2010 (7 weeks)   AT 5 01/22/2010 (3 weeks)   CH 13 02/07/2010 (5 weeks)

Singles

Don't do it yourself   DE 86 01/22/2010 (1 week)   AT 43 01/22/2010 (3 weeks)

The first single on February 5, 2010 was the song Do not make it yourself released as a 7 ”vinyl . It contains the previously unpublished B-side Farewell to Parents . Shortly after that came the 12 "version of the single, with 3 remixes of the title. On April 23, 2010, the second single Im Zweifel für den Zweifel will be released as a 12" vinyl maxi. It contains a remix by Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher and that so far unpublished song I carry nothing of you in me . In the video for In Doubt for Doubt , actress and singer Ingrid Caven appears. On October 15, 2010, the 7 "single Die Tortter never ends with a live recording of her classic The Idea is Good , but the world is not ready yet , which is over 10 minutes long.

Track list

1. Your love is killing me - 8:05
2. A hint of terror - 3:30
3. The torture never ends - 3:52
4. The blood on my hands - 4:38
5. Don't do it yourself - 4:09
6. Please oscillate - 2:30
7. Schall und Wahn - 5:54
8. When in doubt, for doubt - 4:26
9. No more masterpieces - 3:25
10. Storm the Castle - 2:48
11. Song of the Tyrant - 4:11
12. Poison - 8:29

Contributors

• Dirk von Lowtzow : vocals , guitar
• Rick McPhail : guitar , keyboard , choirs, recordings in “The Upper Room”, Hamburg
• Jan Müller : Bass , choirs
• Arne Zank : drums , choirs
• Julia Wilton, Michaela Meise: Additional chants
• Roland Satterwhite, Daniella Strasfogel, Ekkehard Windrich: Violins
• Boram Lie: violoncello
• Jakobus Durstewitz : brass instruments
• Moses Schneider : producer
• Torsten Otto: Recordings in the “Chez Chèrie” and “Transporterraum” studio, Berlin
• Michael Ilbert: Mixing in the "Hansa Mix Room", Berlin
• Michael Schwabe: Mastering in “Monoposto Mastering”, Düsseldorf
• Ebba Durstewitz , Jakobus Siebels : Arrangement of brass instruments
• Thomas Meadowcraft: String Arrangements

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media Control : Tocotronic with their first number 1 album . Retrieved February 2, 2010.
2. ^ "Schall und Wahn" - the new album from Tocotronic (accessed on January 27, 2010)
3. ↑ Tocotronic: Schall und Wahn at wienerzeitung.at (accessed on November 27, 2013)
4. ↑ Review at laut.de (accessed on January 27, 2010)
5. ↑ bugged. The most important CDs of the week . In: Spiegel Online - Kultur , January 12, 2010
6. ↑ "Schall & Wahn" - beyond all templates . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 15, 2010
7. ↑ Please deny it . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/2010
8. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH