Hear voices
Hearing voices is André Heller's twelfth studio album . It came out about a year after Heller had given up his concert career.
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Studio album by André Heller | ||||
Publication |
1983 |
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Label (s) | EMI | |||
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LP CD cassette |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
39min 22s |
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occupation |
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André Heller |
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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
- Post Comment
Web links
- Hearing voices - information on austriancharts.at
- Hearing voices - entry in the SRA