Waiting room (album)

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Waiting room
Studio album by Bosse

Publication
(s)

February 25, 2011

Label (s) Vertigo Berlin , Universal Music Group

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

pop music

Title (number)

12 (bonus CD with 7 acoustic tracks)

running time

41:36
25:48 (Bonus CD)

occupation
  • Singing, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, piano, percussions: Axel Bosse
  • (Acoustic) guitar: Thorsten Sala 1–3, 5, 6, 9, 12
  • Piano and vibraphone: Tobias Philippen 1, 2, 4, 5–9, 11, 12
  • Trumpet and flugelhorn: Tobias Weidiniger 1, 5, 6, 10–12
  • Violin & viola, accordion: Anne De Wolff 1–3, 7, 11
  • Cello: Sonja Glass 1–4, 6, 7, 9
  • Drums & programming, percussion, bass, guitars, synthesizers, glasses, glockenspiel: Jochen Naaf 2–4, 6–11
  • Choirs: Jochen Naaf 8 & Axel Bosse 8
  • Singing: Anna Loos 10
  • Lapsteel and electric guitar: Ulrich Rode 11

production

Jochen Naaf , Sebastian Blaschke 5 & ​​12

Studio (s)

  • Topspin Hangar, Cologne
  • Gotteswegstudio A, Cologne 5 & ​​12 (piano)
  • Maarweg Studio 2, Cologne (wind instruments, additional drums and guitars)
  • Moormusicstudio, Hamburg (strings, accordion & additional guitars)
  • Danzmusik Studio 10 (vocals Anna Loos)
chronology
Taxi
(2009) 		Waiting room Cranes
(2013)
Single releases
February 11, 2011 Far away
May 27, 2011 Waiting room
September 9, 2011 Frankfurt / Oder

Wartesaal is the fourth studio album by the German singer and songwriter Bosse .

Emergence

Axel Bosse wrote a large part of the songs for the waiting room in a 1970s caravan on the Elbe beach. The recordings took place in the Topspin hangar in Cologne. Like its predecessor Taxi, the album was produced by Jochen Naaf . In contrast, the titles Nach Haus and Next Summer were partly recorded by Sebastian Blaschke in Gotteswegstudio A in Cologne.

Title, cover, booklet

“The waiting room is about this room, in which two people sit who just can't seem to reach for their happiness. Because they may be too confused, or too distracted, or already used to waiting. In the end they might make it. "

- bosses

The album was named after the song Waiting Room, because it "is musically in the middle of the album, with every instrument [e], and [...] the chorus [lyrically] gets to the point." The album is about getting happy and being happy.

The cover shows Bosses upper body in a black training jacket against a cloudy sky (Photo: Patrick Wamsganz). The rest of the cover is in a strong red. BOSSE is written in large letters above the photo and the album title in black letters below it. The inside of the booklet is white with black lettering. A small symbol that reflects the title is inserted above each title, including the lyrics.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Waiting room
  DE 16 03/11/2011 (11 weeks)
Singles
Far away
  DE 53 02/28/2011 (7 weeks)
Frankfurt / Oder
  DE 35 09/23/2011 (10 weeks)
  1. Waiting room - 3:51 am
  2. Far away - 4:20
  3. Metropolis - 3:27
  4. The night - 3:27
  5. Home - 3:47
  6. You spring - 3:42
  7. Turn of Time - 3:17
  8. The direction - 4:00
  9. Robot Legs - 3:49
  10. Frankfurt Oder (feat.Anna Loos) - 3:37
  11. Yipi - 2:56
  12. Next summer - 4:23 am

Bonus CD

The album is available in a limited deluxe version that includes a bonus CD with seven of the songs in acoustic version.

  1. Waiting room - 3:51 am
  2. Far away - 4:09
  3. Metropolis - 3:39
  4. The night - 3:29
  5. Turn of Time - 3:49
  6. Robot Legs - 3:32
  7. Yipi - 3:19

Outcouplings

The videos for the three songs Weit Weg , Wartesaal and Metropole were shot within a week in Tokyo, Mount Fuji and Shibuya. Directed by Christopher Häring and Katja Malinowski .

Far away

Far Away was the first song from the album released on February 11, 2011. The song was able to place itself at number 53 in the German single charts. The single contains a single and acoustic version as well as the Koletzki remix. Far away describes a moment in which one disappears mentally or physically, i. H. simply fades out everything around you.

Waiting room

Waiting room was released on May 27, 2011 as the second song from the album of the same name. In addition to a radio version and the album version of Waiting Room, the single also contains the acoustic versions of Next Summer and Die Regie . The video for the waiting room is also available from iTunes .

“The title song 'Waiting Room', for example, paints the picture of two people sitting in a bar just a few meters away from each other, day in and day out, but still failing to take their luck into their own hands and approach each other. "That was such a song, it was written after ten minutes and finished" "

- bosses

Frankfurt / Oder

Frankfurt / Oder was already released on Bosses previous album Guten Morgen Spinner (2006). It was supposed to be released as a single at the time, but Bosses label EMI was bought up and work on the single was stopped. It is a love song that describes how everything is not right on the outside, but you are still happy because you have a certain other person with you. For Bosse, Frankfurt / Oder is the symbol of loneliness.
On waiting room it was re-released in a remix by Moritz Enders together with Silly singer Anna Loos and released on September 9, 2011 as the third single. Both competed with the song at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 for Lower Saxony and took 3rd place. The song was able to place itself at number 35 in the German single charts. The single also has an acoustic version of the song. In iTunes live versions of the songs are also Yipi and the night to get.

metropolis

The video premiere for Metropole took place on November 11, 2011. The video was shot spontaneously on a large intersection in Shibuya within 15 minutes. Metropole was apparently not officially released as a single.

criticism

“ You are probably the best way to reproduce the overall mood of Bosses fourth work. Melancholy? Yes gladly. Why not. But then please be relaxed and fluffy paired with a good shot of confidence. [...] Axel Bosse has something to say and does so in what is probably the best song he has written so far. [...] If you want an invitation to reflect and dream, you will get it here honestly and without embarrassment. [...] And so Bosse tells stories that everyone has somehow experienced themselves. Sometimes more, sometimes less on the verge of kitsch. From insomnia, low-cost airlines, limp potatoes, crying hip-hop girls, from being drunk, going away and coming back. "

- Jochen Gedwien

“On 'Waiting Room' the listener will find intelligently arranged indie pop and rock with a melancholy touch. The work captivates with clever, sensitive texts that are taken directly from life. "

- Neon.de

“It ignites this new album by Axel Bosse, even if some will have problems with the noble pop glaze. But 'Waiting Room' has become a full-bodied album that also shows different facets, and he wears his heart on his tongue when it comes to the lyrics. No big twisted sentences, rather straightforward, yet not bold and clumsy, but clever. "

- Hauke ​​Heesch

“The waiting room wants to give Bosse an absolute breakthrough. That is precisely why musical pleasure is so important. You can tell from the lyrics that Bosse goes to work with a lot of ambition, of course getting bogged down in it or declaiming banal, poetic empty phrases. A handful of songs can avert the misfortune, reconcile those listener with the album who does not immediately puff up little thoughts from Lieschen Müller. To sound unconventionally conventional, such a demeanor does not look good on Bosse. Even single strong songs don't hide that. "

- Lieinthesound

tour

Waiting room tour 2011
Cover
from bosses
Presentation album Waiting room
Beginning of the tour March 24, 2011
End of the tour February 24, 2012
Total concerts
(by country) 		GermanyGermany Germany
Concerts in total 38

Bosse promoted the album on a tour from March 24, 2011 (two parts: March 24 to April 17 and November 15, 2011 to December 11, 2011). He was supported by various bands such as Flimmerfrühstück , Boy , P-lot and Maks Schröder . The tour had to be interrupted at the end of November / beginning of December due to an acute laryngitis of Bosse. The canceled concerts were rescheduled in February 2012.

This list is an overview of the concerts that were played on Bosses Waiting Room Tour 2011 .

date city Opening act Venue country
March 24, 2011 Leipzig boy Moritzbastei GermanyGermany Germany
March 25, 2011 Nuremberg deer
March 26, 2011 Kaiserslautern worsted
March 29, 2011 Munich 59: 1
March 30, 2011 Stuttgart tube
March 31, 2011 Frankfurt am Main Batschkapp
April 1, 2011 Erfurt Elke Brauweiler HsD union building
April 2, 2011 Dresden beatpol
April 6, 2011 Cologne boy Luxor
April 7, 2011 Bochum Colliery
April 8, 2011 Osnabrück Boy, Kat Frankie storage hall
April 9, 2011 Hamburg Elke Brauweiler Great freedom 36
April 13, 2011 Goettingen boy Musa
April 14, 2011 Braunschweig Meier Music Hall
April 15, 2011 Bremen slaughterhouse
April 16, 2011 Berlin Postbahnhof
April 17, 2011
November 15, 2011 Cologne Flicker breakfast Live music hall
November 16, 2011 Fulda cross
November 17, 2011 Frankfurt am Main Batschkapp
November 18, 2011 Karlsruhe Substage
November 19, 2011 trier Exhaus
November 23, 2011 Muenster boy Jovel
December 2, 2011 Munich Plot Theater factory
December 3, 2011 Tübingen Brewhouse
5th December 2011 Freiburg Special guest Jazz house
December 6, 2011 Saarbrücken boy garage
December 7, 2011 Dortmund FZW
December 9, 2011 Wilhelmshaven Pumping station
December 10, 2011 Hamburg Maks Schröder Great freedom 36
December 11, 2011 Special guest
February 2, 2012 Wurzburg Plot Post Hall
February 18, 2012 Rostock City Hall
19th February 2012 cottbus Gladhouse
February 21, 2012 Potsdam Wash house
February 22, 2012 Hanover Capitol
February 23, 2012 Leipzig Plant II
February 24, 2012 Neubrandenburg Freight depot

As part of the promotion for the album, Bosse also appeared on Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten . He also performed several appearances in Switzerland with Boy in May and October 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b n-tv.de: "Monsterbombe des Glücks" - From the waiting room into the limelight: bosses. February 25, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Bosse in an interview: "The waiting room is a bar". March 11, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  3. ↑ “Becoming happy and being happy” - an interview with singer-songwriter Axel Bosse. February 25, 2011, archived from the original on October 31, 2013 ; Retrieved October 30, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Charts DE
  5. ↑ Verena Köplin: Please take a seat in the waiting room. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 24, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Interview: BOSSE "In the waiting room for happiness". February 15, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Bosse & Anna Loos take third place at the BuViSoCo! September 30, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  8. ↑ November 11th: Bosses "Metropole" celebrates video premiere. November 9, 2011, accessed October 29, 2013 .
  9. ↑ official music video for Metropole at youtube.com
  10. ↑ hot time. Retrieved October 30, 2013 .
  11. ↑ No more waiting in the waiting room - Bosse is back. February 23, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Waiting room. March 8, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  13. ↑ In the no man's land between prettied up trivia and moments of profundity - bosses. March 2, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Acute laryngitis: numerous concerts postponed. November 24, 2011, accessed October 30, 2013 .
  15. ↑ a b Tour data archive on the official homepage. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013 ; Retrieved October 30, 2013 .