True Faith
| True Faith | |
|---|---|
| New order | |
| publication | July 20, 1987 |
| length | 5:53 (Original Version ) 4:12 (Edit) |
| Genre (s) | Synth pop , electronic dance music |
| Author (s) | Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook , Stephen Morris , Gillian Gilbert , Stephen Hague |
| Producer (s) | New Order, Stephen Hague |
| Label | Factory Records |
| album | Substance 1987 |
True Faith is a song of the British new wave - band New Order , one of her best known. It was released in July 1987 as the only 12 "maxi single from the compilation album Substance 1987. Two separate maxi singles were released. The second version contained two remixes by Shep Pettibone .
Emergence
New Order wrote and recorded True Faith during a ten-day studio session with producer Stephen Hague , which also included the 1963 song . The two songs were written as new material for New Order's first single compilation album, Substance, in 1987 . After the two songs were recorded, the band's US management decided that True Faith was the stronger track and should be released as the b-side as a new single in 1963 . 1963 was re-mixed as a single in 1994.
The song was recorded at Advision Studio One in Fitzrovia , London . According to Hague, the studio included "... a first-generation SSL mixer and big old Urei time-align monitors." True Faith was created using a wide variety of electronic music devices. According to an interview in Sound on Sound , New Order used a Yamaha QX 1, an Octave Voyetra 8 Polyphonic Synthesizer, a Yamaha DX 5 and an Akai S900 sampler, as well as an E-Mu Emulator II and an E-Mu SP12.
"It wasn't a really happy time in New Order's life," recalled bassist Peter Hook. "Let's just say it was quite a struggle for me to get through there, besides wanting to help write the song. Musically, we were moving more towards straight dance and I was keen to keep the New Order that I knew and loved. I finally managed to get my bass to the original version. But of course the first thing remixers do is take my bass away and put their own on top. Sometimes I want to attach a note that says, How about keeping the bass? "
Publication and reception
The maxi singles were released on July 20, 1987 and August 10, 1987 on Factory Records . The song reached number four on the British charts, number eight in Germany , number 13 in Switzerland and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 . In Australia , the single reached number eight and New Zealand fourth. In 1994 a remix version of the song, True Faith '94 , was released, which reached number nine on the UK charts. Another remix was released in 2001.
True Faith was never a track on a regular album. However, the song later appeared on most of New Order's best-of compilations ( Substance 1987 , The Best of New Order , Retro , International , Singles, and Total ). The first public performance of the song took place in 1987 at the Glastonbury Festival . This version appears on the group's BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert album . The original 7 "version of the song didn't appear on a compilation until 2011, on Total: From Joy Division to New Order .
Music video
A surreal music video was shot for True Faith , staged and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé and produced by Michael H. Shamberg .
The opening sequence, in which two men hit each other, refers to Marina Abramović's and Ulay's video performance Light / Dark from 1977. Costumed dancers jump around to the beat of the music, fighting and hitting each other while one person in dark green make-up -up comes out of the punching bag of an upside down boxer and signs the texts (in LSF ). The video has been voted one of the best of the year several times. The television station Sky , The Amp , classified it, for example, as the best video of the year 1987, the readers of Smash Hits magazine as the third best video of the year 1987, and it won the 1988 BRIT Award for "British Video of the Year" . The video was also inspired by the Triadic Ballet by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer .
The overall tonality, themes and various elements of the video were resumed in Decouflé's scenography and choreography for the 1992 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Albertville.
Cover versions
Cover versions exist among others by George Michael , Sophie Ellis-Bextor , Gregorian , Lotte Kestner as well as by Too Shy feat. Anthony C.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Buskin: Classic Tracks: New Order 'New Faith' . In: Sound on Sound . March 2005. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
- ↑ Peter Hook, Q , May 2001
- ↑ a b 'New Order - True Faith , hitparade.ch
- ↑ a b Stephanie Jordan: Dance & music video . In: Parallel lines: media representations of dance (= Arts Council series). Indiana University Press , 1993, ISBN 978-0-86196-371-3 , p. 72.
- ↑ Chris Kaltenbach: Remembrance: Michael Shamberg, from Baltimore to New Order and beyond . In: The Baltimore Sun , November 15, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
- ^ Dianne Bourne: New Order pay tribute to video producer Michael H. Shamberg . In: Manchester Evening News , November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014. Retrieved on November 29, 2014.
- ^ Marina Abramović and Ulay Light / Dark . YouTube . 1977. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ↑ The 8th Annual Smash Hits Readers' Poll> Best Video . In: Smash Hits . , London, UK16, p. 40. Retrieved October 8, 2019.