Hear voices

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Hearing voices is André Heller's twelfth studio album . It came out about a year after Heller had given up his concert career.

Hear voices
Studio album by André Heller

Publication
(s)

1983

Label (s) EMI

Format (s)

LP CD cassette

Genre (s)

Chanson , songwriter

Title (number)

10

running time

39min 22s

occupation
  • André Heller (vocals)
  • Horacio Lopes (drums)
  • Mischa Krausz (bass)
  • Manogo Mujica et al. a.

production

André Heller

Studio (s)

  • Soundmillstudio
  • Austrophone studio
  • Hamburg recording studio
chronology
Curse Hear voices Fool songs

Style and production notes

The voices were recorded between November 1982 and March 1983 and were recorded in various recording studios in Vienna and Hamburg . Stylistically, it can hardly be classified as a “typical” Austropop album, it contains songwriting elements , as well as early examples of world music . As almost always with Heller, both prominent and outstanding guest musicians took part on the album. Among them the Argentine bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi , the American jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and the Austrian violinist Toni Stricker .

Important titles

Cut 6 Forever Young was recorded as a Bob Dylan cover in a duet with Wolfgang Ambros and is today, like Cut 2 Wie mei Herzschlag, one of the "classic" pieces of later Austropop. Cut 9 Rise Up Beloved was an important title for the peace movement of the early 1980s, it was performed with publicity on September 11, 1982 in Bochum's Ruhrstadion at a concert by Artists for Peace with a large cast, including the audience. The final comment on the album , which Heller wrote together with Konstantin Wecker , who accompanies him on the piano, also deals with the issue of peace . The pieces Der Mikado and Mir däumte , which, according to the liner notes, was written on a train trip to Canton, are examples of Heller's musical and poetic reference to the school of fantastic realism . Also noteworthy is the folk song Zehn Brider, sung in Yiddish by Heller and accompanied by Toni Stricker on the violin .

The cover shows a painting by Christian Ludwig Attersee using a Heller photograph taken by Gabriela Brandenstein.

Track list

  • The Mikado
  • Like my heartbeat
  • Tulio's song
  • The centenarian
  • Ten brothers
  • Forever Young
  • The first frost in Rimini
  • I dreamed
  • Rise up, beloved
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