Tabaluga and the luminous silence
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| Studio album by Peter Maffay | ||||
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1986 |
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| Label (s) | Teldec (1986) / Ariola (1993) | |||
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LP, MC, CD |
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13 |
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61 min |
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Tony Carey , Peter Wagner, Peter Maffay |
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Studio (s) |
Red Rooster Studios in Tutzing |
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Tabaluga and the Shining Silence is a 1986 concept album by Peter Maffay . The album is structured as a musical for children on which narrated passages and songs alternate. After Tabaluga or the journey to reason it was the second album in the series about the dragon Tabaluga .
The album is one of Maffay's most successful releases and entered the German album charts after its release in November 1986, where it remained at number one for three weeks and a total of 17 weeks.
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The dragon Tabaluga has stolen a magical jade stone from his father Tyrion's pocket and is caught playing with the stone. Before he can give him a moral sermon, Tabaluga asks him what this thing called "love" is. Tyrion does not answer him and Tabaluga wishes to move to another location using the jade stone. At the end of a rainbow, Tabaluga meets a crying girl, the half-child - the daughter of the sun and the moon. She is sad and cannot love herself, since the "shining silence" is missing, she only has sadness. The rainbow advises Tabaluga to use the jade stone to find out what a world would be like without love. Tabaluga follows this advice and enters a machine world populated by human robots who consider themselves perfect and omniscient; however, he overwhelmed the robots with the question of “love”.
Tabaluga tries further to find out what love is, and travels on with the jade stone and arrives in the world of the constantly shapeshifting dream woman. When Tabaluga wakes up from his dream, he is surprised by Deimon - the hate - and his snake companion Bilingua - the envy; instead of facing them, however, Tabaluga disappears into the crystal world of ice, where he meets the ice princess. The chorus of lost souls, forever trapped in the ice, can warn Tabaluga to flee from the cold-hearted princess. When Tabaluga has left the ice world, he is greeted by the one who tells him that it is time for Tabaluga to accompany him. However, it turns out that there is a mix-up and he was supposed to pick up Tyrion Dragon. Meanwhile, Tyrion had set out to look for his son. In search of him, he is drawn into an argument and then into a fight by the four winds, the north, east, south and west winds, stimulated by Deimon. Tyrion is able to beat the winds to flight, but is seriously injured in battle and is killed by Deimon with a lightning strike to the heart. He regrets that he did not answer Tabaluga correctly when asked about love and did not tell him that he loved him. When Tabaluga learns of his father's death, he is sad. Death alerts him to the star Tyrion has become, and Tabaluga senses that he will always love his father.
When Tabaluga flies over the country at dawn the next day, he enjoys the life of nature and meets the rainbow again and the now happy half-child. In a white light of the merging colors of the rainbow, Tabaluga recognizes the luminous silence. Looking at all of those he met on his journey, he understands what love is.
Graphic design
In contrast to Tabaluga or the journey to reason and later Tabaluga albums, the graphic design of the Tabaluga album and the luminous silence did not come from the father of the dragon figure Helme Heine , but from the illustrator Mela Rosenkind . The cover is kept white and shows, in addition to the prominent lettering of the title, the dragon Tabaluga, who stands on planet earth. The earth is illuminated by the sun, in the lower area there is the moon and a night sky. A rainbow ends at the kite's position , the other end of which ends at the back of the album in a cloud surrounded by lightning. The photos used come from Siggi Niedergesäß.
Track list
- Overture: The Shining Silence (1) / Dr. Bellos Frikadellos - 2:06
- Where am I from, where am I going? / Jadestein In Meiner Hand ( Peter Maffay , Peter Zentner , Gregor Rottschalk , Jean-Jacques Kravetz ) - 5:05
- Half-child ( Peter-Rudolph Heinen , Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 3:28
- The shining silence (Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Peter Maffay, Peter Zentner, Gregor Rottschalk) - 3:46
- Man made of steel ( Johan Daansen , Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 6:06
- Traumfrau / Bilinguas Lied ( Frank Diez , Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 5:34
- Ich bin der Haß (Daimons Lied) / The Chorus Of The Lost Souls (Johan Daansen, Peter Maffay, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 5:00
- It's cold (Frank Diez, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 4:15
- The happy fellow ( Hans-Jürgen Buchner , Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 3:33
- The path is also the goal (Kampf im Gebirge) (Peter Maffay, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 7:16
- The notes have faded away (Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Peter Maffay, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 5:14
- Thanks to life ( Carl Carlton , Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 5:30
- The shining silence (Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Peter Maffay, Gregor Rottschalk, Peter Zentner) - 4:14
Background and success
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After the success of the concept album Tabaluga or the journey to reason , Peter Maffay decided to create a successor in the form of Tabaluga and the shining silence as the second album in the series about the young dragon Tabaluga . In addition to the musicians in his band, who have already recorded the first Tabaluga album, Gregor Rottschalk was also involved again and acted as a speaker on the album. There are also other musicians and Tony Carey as a producer alongside Peter Wagner and Peter Maffay. The song The Happy Journeyman was also composed and sung by Hans-Jürgen Buchner , the singer and frontman of the band Haindling .
After its release in Germany, the album reached number 17 in the German album charts and rose to number one in the following weeks , where it lasted for three weeks. In total, it remained in the German charts for 17 weeks and received a triple gold record for over 750,000 copies sold. In the Swiss charts , the album debuted at rank 24 and reached position 13 overall, it held seven weeks in the charts. On the other hand, the album could not place in the Austrian charts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information from the cover of the album Tabaluga and the glowing silence
- ↑ a b Peter Maffay - Tabaluga and the luminous silence. officialcharts.de, accessed on July 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Peter Maffay - Tabaluga and the luminous silence. hitparade.ch, accessed on July 16, 2020 .
- ↑ GOLD / PLATINUM database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on July 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter Maffay - Tabaluga and the luminous silence. hitparade.at, accessed on July 16, 2020 .