Wishes (Hannes Wader album)

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Wishes
Studio album by Hannes Wader

Publication
(s)

2001

Label (s) Plans - Aris

Genre (s)

Chanson / singer-songwriter

Title (number)

12

running time

54 min 43 s

occupation
  • Guitars: Stefan Dietz
  • Guitars: Chris Jones
  • Accordion: Hrolfur Vagnsson
  • Bass : Benjamin Hüllenkremer
  • Violin: Stefan Pintev
  • Violin: Rodrigo Reichel
  • Choir (mezzo-soprano): Susanne Wolf
  • Choir (mezzo-soprano): Claudia Alferding
  • Choir (alto): Anette Isenbart
  • Choir (soprano) Beate Kynast
  • Choir (tenor): Joachim Duske
  • Choir (alto): Gesine Grube
  • Choir (bass): Frederik Martin
  • Choir (soprano): Stephanie Stiller

production

Hannes Wader, Ben Ahrens

Studio (s)

Blue Noise recording studio Hamburg

chronology
What a Night (2001) Wishes Mey Wader Wecker - The Concert (2003)

Wish is an album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 2001.

History of origin

Wish is the first studio album since I thought of you - Wader sings Schubert (1997). Even after this album, the songwriter was not to produce a studio album for three years. The album was only produced in 2004 ... and times change .

Wish is a typical Wader album. Five songs are by Wader himself. The remaining songs are arrangements of foreign songs. There are also three political songs included. The rest is more likely to be assigned to the poetic-lyric area. Fans criticized Wader's departure from the political texts of earlier times.

Wader himself does not comment on this criticism, but admits that he is not prepared to be pressured into making political statements. In the song "Politics (times accepted)" from the album times accepted, he comments on these allegations. His continued interest in politics was shown e.g. B. in his engagement against the Iraq war at the demonstration on February 15, 2003. There he performed his famous anti-war song Es ist zu Zeit from the 1980 album with his colleagues Reinhard Mey and Konstantin Wecker .

Track list

  1. Stressed - 3:23
  2. Wishes - 3:46
  3. Victor Jara - 6:02
  4. Small town - 4:48
  5. Early spring - 4:04
  6. Summer night - 5:25
  7. November song - 5:38
  8. Winter night - 5:23 am
  9. Father's Land - 3:48
  10. From marriage - 3:03
  11. I'll get you through the night - 5:14
  12. Indian Summer - 3:24

Remarks

Again Hannes Wader produced this album in collaboration with Ben Ahrens.

Jo Barnikel, long-time accompanying musician Konstantin Weckers, can be heard for the second time on a Wader album. In the same year he accompanied Hannes Wader on the live album Was für eine Nacht , a sound document of the summer tour 2000 with Konstantin Wecker.

"Stressed" is originally an old English song to drive out the winter. The Steeleye Span group was the first to record. Wader himself got to know this song in 1991 and made his own lyrics on it ten years later.

“Wishes” is a free adaptation of the song “Solo le Pido a Dios” by the Argentine León Gieco .

Victor Jara was a Chilean theater maker and songwriter. The song of the same name pays homage to Jara, who was murdered in 1973.

"Small Town" is the takeover of a song by Phil Coulter . Wader wrote his own text and had the Alsatian city of Wissembourg in mind. On the album ... and times change Hannes Wader sings "Petit Ville", a French version of this title. The songwriter was assisted in the editing by Lydie Auvray , an accordion player with whom Wader toured between 1980 and 1985.

As a homage to the far north of Germany, where he lived for years, the songwriter wrote the season cycle consisting of “Early Spring”, “Summer Night”, “November Song” and “Winter Night”.

In “Father's Land” Hannes Wader deals with the topics of patriotism and national pride. He puts forward the thesis that Germans are only satisfied with themselves if they can stand over someone and step on them. The Germans' sense of identity remains inextricably linked to their military superiority over the rest of the world. Wader's request is therefore not to allow a German identity.

“About marriage” is the basis of a poem by Gibran Khalil Gibran . It was written about a hundred years ago and was often played at weddings. To make it sound solemn, the songwriter uses a melody by Johann Sebastian Bach .

With “I'll take you through the night”, Hannes Wader sings a song by his friend and colleague Reinhard Mey. It comes from the album Einhandsegler (2001). The song is a romantic love song.

With “Indian Summer” the songwriter sings the original for his song “ Today here, tomorrow there ” for the first time . Gary Bolstad, the original interpreter of "Indian Summer", published "Day To Day" an English version of Wader's text.

Individual evidence

  1. Duklas Frisch: Hannes Wader, Wünsche , (accessed June 13, 2015)
  2. Hannes Wader: Comments (on) the songs on the new CD ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 13, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scala-kuenstler.de