Fatherland (album)
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| Studio album by Konstantin Wecker | ||||
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Publication |
2001 |
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| Label (s) | BMG Globeart Musicon | |||
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Title (number) |
17 + 1 |
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running time |
73:52 |
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Studio (s) |
Sator Studio, Munich |
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Vaterland is the 17th studio album by the singer and songwriter Konstantin Wecker from 2001.
content
The song of the same name on the album Vaterland is Wecker's second song with this title after the Vaterland from 1979. 2018 appeared on the album Sage No! Antifascist songs 1978 to this day the song Vaterland? . With songs like Amerika , Wenn die Börsianer Tanz or the theme song Vaterland , Wecker draws attention to problems that are looming for the coming years. This is Wecker's second song with this title after the fatherland from 1979. Wecker sets the Goethe poem to music with An den Mond , the text of the Italian Girasoli is by Stefan Winkler, Alexa Rodrian acted as a duo partner. Hanns Dieter Hüsch can be heard at the beginning of his song Do you know these sudden seconds . Wehdam (Bavarian for pain, discomfort ) is a “Bavarian blues” according to the title, with I werd oid the refrain is in Bavarian. The CD also contains the lullaby (here as Lullaby II ) that Wecker had written and set to music two years earlier for the multimedia project “There was a child on the trees” by Jutta Richter and Katrin Engelking . He had already published " Liebesdank " on the CD "Liebeslieder".
Version III by Willy follows as a bonus track . The CD ends with a hidden track : It is a recording that was made with Wecker as a student by his music teacher Bissinger at the Wilhelmsgymnasium and his piano accompaniment. Wecker sings the Heidenröslein in the setting by Franz Schubert .
publication
The CD was presented on September 10, 2001. The desired media attention was low due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . Wecker reacted to the attacks on the blog on his website. On the following tour and the CD Vaterland live 01/02, he added the incidents according to the song Willy to a new version and classified the song America accordingly.
Guest musician
The following musicians contributed to the creation of the album:
Mark Ramsden, Wolfgang Roth, Claus Reichstaller , Lenz Retzer, Stephan Maass , John Jones, Hans-Heiner Bettinger, Peter Tuscher, Leo Gmelch, Axel Kühn , Harald Kümpfel, Michael Gerlach, Tom Peschel, String of Pearls
production
Gerd Baumann was the producer and Peter Kirsten was executive producer . The arrangements of the songs were done by Gerd Baumann, Jens Fischer Rodrian, Jo Barnikel and Wolfgang Roth. The sound engineer was Klaus Strazicky with his assistant Martin Schweikhofer, the sound engineer was Michael Gerlach with his assistant Lukas Roth. The mixing took place in the recording studio Robert Hafner (Ebreichsdorf near Vienna) with sound engineer Jörg Mayr, assistant Bernd Unterweger. The CD was mastered by Kai Blankenburg in the Skyline Studios Düsseldorf.
The design of the CD was done by Martin Kett, the photos of the booklet are by Thomas Carsten.
Track list
- November song - 4:32
- Wehdam - 4:23
- We're fine - 3:24
- All that and more - 5:57
- Do you know those sudden seconds (with Hanns Dieter Hüsch ) - 3:32
- I will oid - 2:29
- Expert II - 3:03
- America - 4:00
- When the traders dance - 3:33
- Fatherland - 5:04
- To the moon - 4:35
- Ignited by the world fire - 3:59
- Alone - 3:07
- Girasoli (with Alexa Rodrian ) - 4:43
- Lullaby II - 2:13
- Thank you - 4:09
- Bonus track: Willy III - 7:52
- Hidden track: saw a boy stand a rose - 1:39
swell
- Booklet of the CD Vaterland
- Roland Rottenfusser : Fatherland and September 11, 2001 . In: Konstantin Wecker : The whole terribly beautiful life , (with Günter Bauch and Roland Rottenfußer), Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08644-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konstantin Wecker: The whole terribly beautiful life , (with Günter Bauch and Roland Rottenfußer), Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08644-6 , p. 38f