Tightrope walker dream

Tightrope walker dream
Studio album by Pur
Publication (s)	1993
Label (s)	Intercord (1993) / EMI , Universal Music (2002)
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	13 (1993) / 17 (2002)
running time	55:41 (1993) / 82:50 (2002)
occupation	Singing: Hartmut Engler Guitar: Rudi Buttas Drums, vocals: Roland Bless Keyboard: Ingo Reidl Bass, vocals: Joe Crawford
production	Dieter Falk
Studio (s)	Leonberg recording studio; Elch recording studio, Bietigheim-Bissingen; Hansahausstudio Bonn-Beuel; Masterfonics, Nashville
chronology Nothing Without Reason (1991) Tightrope walker dream Adventure Land (1995)
Single releases 1993 listen up 1993 Indians 1994 New bridges 1994 She sees the sun 1994 Into you (live)

Seiltänzertraum is a 1993 Intercord published music album the group Pur . With over 1.5 million copies, the album is one of the best-selling music albums in Germany .

Creation and publication

Tilting Dream was recorded and mixed in Leonberg , Bonn-Beuel , Bietigheim-Bissingen and Nashville . Dieter Falk acted as producer .

Even before the album was released, the single Hör gut zu was released, which reached number 27 in the German single charts in July 1993. The Stuttgarter Zeitung stated that the song was a hit and "with its refined interwoven vocal harmonies and guitar lines as soon not go out of your ear." The album Seiltänzertraum finally appeared on 1 August 1993. Although this place only at # 2 on the album charts it is one of the band's most successful albums: it stayed in the charts for 128 weeks; the first listing was on August 30, 1993, the last on February 5, 1996. After just three months, 600,000 units had been sold. In December 1994, the album was awarded double platinum for more than 1.2 million units sold.

Following the publication, Pur went on a tightrope walk, on which Hartmut Engler broke his arm at the end of September 1993. A concert had to be postponed, but the tour continued as planned. It ended in July 1994 in Purs hometown Bietigheim-Bissingen ; the group had given 120 concerts in front of more than a million spectators as part of the tour. The video for the tour, Seiltänzertraum-Tour 1993/94 , had already appeared in April 1994 .

Track list

No.	title	Author (s)	Producer (s)	length
1	listen up	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl	Dieter Falk	4:20
2	Tightrope walker dream			6:08
3	Indians			3:57
4th	New bridges			4:23
5	Hey you	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl, Martin Ansel		3:55
6th	Secretly	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl		4:38
7th	One more life			5:12
8th	She sees the sun			4:22
9	Never enough			5:43
10	The man at the window	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl, Martin Ansel, Reinhard Mey		4:23
11	Everything will be fine	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl		3:54
12	In you			4:06
13	Kowalski IV			0:40
	2002 Digitally Remastered Re-Release by EMI / Universal Music
14th	New Bridges (live)	Hartmut Engler, Ingo Reidl	Dieter Falk	5:03
15th	Tightrope walker dream (live)			7:22
16	Indians (live)			4:58
17th	Audio commentary A tightrope walker's dream			5:36

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Tightrope walker dream   DE 2 08/30/1993 (128 weeks)   AT 33 10/03/1993 (1 week)

Singles

listen up   DE 27 07/26/1993 (19 weeks) Indians   DE 48 11/15/1993 (14 weeks) New bridges   DE 79 03/21/1994 (5 weeks) She sees the sun   DE 66 08/08/1994 (10 weeks)

The Stuttgarter Zeitung wrote that Pur auf Seiltänzertraum "[have] become musically tougher, more guitar- focused and rockier". Above all Hartmut Engler stamping pure. "The polish of the German Christ-Pop pioneer Dieter Falk, who produced the last album [Seiltänzertraum], is unmistakable," wrote the Nürnberger Nachrichten and classified Pur as a "link between Reinhard Fendrich and Herbert Grönemeyer ".

Awards

Up to 1996, rope dancers' dream had sold over 1.5 million times and reached triple platinum in Germany.

Web links

• A tightrope walker's dream at Discogs
• A tightrope walker's dream at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 23, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information according to the CD booklet.
2. ↑ ^{a b} ub: On the high wire . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , September 6, 1993.
3. ↑ Seiltänzertraum on chartsurfer.de, accessed on November 11, 2015.
4. ↑ jo: Rock group Pur still under contract with Intercord . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 13, 1994.
5. ↑ Kai Holoch: Big celebration for the Bietigheimer group Pur - Double platinum for 1.2 million “tightrope walker dreams” . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , December 12, 1994.
6. ↑ Not while walking on the tightrope, but Hartmut broke his arm anyway… . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 5, 1993.
7. ↑ Ulrich Bauer: Balancing act high up on the rope . In; Stuttgarter Zeitung , November 20, 1993.
8. ↑ Kai Holoch: mood at the home game . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , July 12, 1994.
9. ^ "Pur" tour: More than a million visitors . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , July 14, 1994.
10. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
11. ↑ Stefan Mößler: Soul Comforter of the Nation . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , December 9, 1993.
12. ↑ Information according to the database on musikindustrie.de, accessed on November 11, 2015.