Maybe?
| Maybe? | |
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| Alvarez & Heppner | |
| publication | October 3, 2005 |
| length | 3:52 |
| Genre (s) | Dance pop |
| Author (s) |
Jose Alvarez-Brill , Peter Heppner , Henning Verlage |
| album | Alvarez Presents Time Machine Remixed |
Maybe? is a song by the German musician Jose Alvarez-Brill , in cooperation with the German synth pop - singer Peter Heppner , from whose remix album Alvarez Presents Time Machine Remixed .
Creation and publication
The song was written jointly by Jose Alvarez-Brill, Peter Heppner and Henning Verlage . The single was produced by Alvarez-Brill and publishers. The mastering was done by Götz Rieth from Emil Berliner Studios . Verlage was largely responsible for the musical recording, he recorded the keyboard sounds. The song also contains guitar sounds that were recorded by external - unknown - studio musicians.
The first release of Maybe? took place on October 3, 2005 as a CD and vinyl record in Germany. The song was published under the music labels Island Records and Universal Music Domestic Division , published by Arabella Musikverlag, Edition Pleasure Park, Fansation Musikverlag, Hanseatic MV and pH-Werk Musikverlag and distributed by Universal Music Publishing . This is not a conventional single , which is why the song has never been released as a maxi single until today . The single was only released as a promo single . The pressing of the records was taken over by the company Optimal Media Production. The single contains only three remix versions of Maybe? , the original was only released on Alvarez Brill's album Alvarez Presents Time Machine Remixed . Among other things, remixes by Robert Kottok and Northern Lite can be found on the promotional sound carrier.
background information
Maybe? is not the first collaboration between Jose Alvarez-Brill and Peter Heppner. In the past, Alvarez has often worked as a producer for Heppner's band project Wolfsheim . He also produced Heppner as a solo artist in advance. In 1998 he produced the single Die Flut von Witt / Heppner. In 2010, the two worked together again and released the promo single This Moment .
In the booklet to Alvarez Presents Zeitmaschine Remixed you can find the following statement from Alvarez about the collaboration with Heppner: “One of my greatest wishes has always been to write a song with Peter. We used to say we had to do something. But as it is, 13 years have passed, with 13 being my lucky number. It was a very intensive work on this piece, which we accomplished largely new creative workshop pH-Werk. These rooms were just being renovated and so we sat mostly at night between paint and Psppkartons with our basic studio technology and made concentrated music. We both had the same feeling: "It's like before, kind of good !!!" "
content
The lyrics to Maybe? is written in German. The music was written by Jose Alvarez-Brill and Henning Verlage, the text by Peter Heppner. Musically, the song moves in the area of dance pop . The composition combines modern music with poetry from the turn of the century . The song has two stanzas, a refrain between the stanzas and a repetitive one at the end of the song. The lyrics consist of a series of “maybe” statements or questions, some of which rhyme . The questions mainly deal with the topic of a love relationship.
"Maybe now and then
, maybe something new will start,
maybe for you and me,
maybe ..."
Music video
The music video for Maybe? was shot on September 7, 2005 and premiered in October. It shows how Heppner - singing with a camera - wanders through landscapes and meets people who, like himself, film themselves in certain places. Heppner films himself at a bus stop , in front of a brick wall (on which a large white heart has been painted) and in front of a large tree. On his hike he meets Alvarez-Brill, who is making a family video of himself, his wife and two children in front of their own home. Furthermore, he meets two women who are filming each other while modeling in front of a lake, a man who films himself during a monologue in a meadow, an older woman who puts on make- up on a park bench , a young person who films herself holding up at a ball and a blonde woman filming himself in a meadow against the backdrop of a bridge at dusk. This very woman meets Heppner at the end of the video and hands him the recordings she made. There is a small heart on the case of the cassette. The video ends with Heppner following the woman. The total length of the video is 3:50 minutes. As with Leben… I Feel You, the director was again Hans Hammers Jr. II. In addition, cameraman Ben Wolf and production manager Florian Buba worked on the video. The music video was produced by Luminus Film.
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reception
To date, the song could not place in any official charts and exact sales figures are also not known. The title appeared on Alvarez Remixalbum Alvarez Presents Zeitmaschine Remixed and on the sampler Bravo Hits 52 .
- Reviews
The website depechemode.de describes the production as a reference to the current music landscape. It is a "solid" single that was produced without any major "rough edges" and goes straight to the ear. Lyrically, you give the listener scope for their own interpretations. In particular, the “Lite Remix” made by Northern Lite stood out, as the remix was played at a “more contemplative” pace and enriched with “distinctive synths”.
Web links
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- ↑ a b c Repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Alvarez & Heppner - Maybe? discogs.com, accessed December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Alvarez - Presents Time Machine Remixed. discogs.com, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Alvarez & Heppner - “Maybe?” … Sometime? depechemode.de, accessed on December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Booklet: Jose Alvarez-Brill - Alvarez Presents Zeitmaschine Remixed , Island Records, December 31, 2015.
- ↑ Alvarez feat. Heppner - Maybe (2006). crew-united.com, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Bravo Hits 52. austriancharts.at, accessed on December 29, 2017 .