The Color of Snow

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The Color of Snow
Studio album from Arctic Circle 18

Publication
(s)

October 17, 2008

Label (s) Universal

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Pop-rock , electro-pop , post-rock

Title (number)

10

running time

42:05

occupation
  • Guitar, piano: Philipp Makolis
  • Piano, guitar, trumpet : Ludwig Bauer
  • Drums : Christian Grochau

production

Studio (s)

chronology
Arctic Circle 18
(2007) 		The Color of Snow Free
(2010)

The Color of Snow is the second studio album by the German pop-rock band Polarkreis 18 . It was released in Germany on October 17th, 2008. According to the band members, the songs on the album mostly have “a clear song structure”. It stands out from the first album, which still had many “corners”. The way the songs were created was also changed, with some pieces only being written on guitar or piano.

The album is sold as a digipack version and includes a 35 × 24 cm poster with the band depicted on the front, frozen in a block of ice . On the back are the "credits" for the album.

Track list

  1. Tourist - 3:22
  2. Alone Alone - 4:00
  3. Prisoner - 4:42
  4. Untitled Picture - 2:08
  5. The Color Of Snow - 3:42
  6. 130/70 - 3:52
  7. Rainhouse - 3:49
  8. River Loves The Ocean - 5:13
  9. Name On My ID - 4:47
  10. Happy Go Lucky - 5:19

Singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Alone alone
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 10/17/2008 (40 weeks)
  AT 2 10/17/2008 (34 weeks)
  CH 7th 10/26/2008 (36 weeks)
The Color of Snow
  DE 5 02/27/2009 (9 weeks)
  AT 38 02/27/2009 (4 weeks)
Happy Go Lucky
  DE 72 06/26/2009 (1 week)

Alone alone

Alone Alone was the first single from the album and was released on October 3rd (online) and October 4th (in retail) in Germany. The song debuted at number 8 in the first week. In the third week after it started, the song reached number 1 in the German single charts and stayed there for five weeks.

The Color of Snow

The Color of Snow was released as the second single and released on February 13, 2009. With a German / English version of the song not available on the album, Polarkreis 18 took part in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2009 , in which they achieved second place with 131 points.

Happy Go Lucky

In April 2009 it was announced on the official homepage of the band that Happy Go Lucky will be the third release from the album The Color of Snow . The video, in which Felix Räuber's grandfather also plays, premiered in May. The single was released on June 12, 2009.

Chart placements

year title Chart placements
DE AT CH
2008 The Color of Snow 14th - 62

Contributing musicians

  • The harp on the song " River Loves The Ocean " plays Andreas Gundlach .
  • Three choirs were needed for the different songs . The Berlin children's choir Canzonetta under the direction of J. Wittur sang on the song " The Color Of Snow ". The two titles " River Loves The Ocean " and " Happy Go Lucky " were represented by five women and three men as a choir. M. Wagner , T. Adam and L. Bauer sang on " Name On My ID " .
  • The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg under the direction of Jörg Iwer supported Polarkreis 18 in " Alone Alone ", " 130/70 ", " Prisoner ", " The Color Of Snow ", " River Loves The Ocean ", " Happy Go Lucky ".
  • Furthermore, M. Wenzel , F. Kern and C. Keppler were represented as schoolchildren for the song " The Color Of Snow " , and H. Räuber as the speaker for " Happy Go Lucky " .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in the SZ from October 14, 2008
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  3. ↑ Report on "sz-online.de"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sz-online.de  
  4. ↑ The Color of Snow (single) on Musicline
  5. ↑ Bundesvision Song Contest 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on prosieben.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tvtotal.prosieben.de
  6. ↑ Album chart source DE ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / musicline.de
  7. ↑ Source information see booklet

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