White Noise (Album)
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15th January 2016 |
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Weisses Rauschen is the second studio album by German rock singer Erik Cohen . It was published on January 15, 2016 by RYL NKR and brought the artist the first chart placement .
Emergence
After the positive reactions to his debut album Nostalgia for the Future , Erik Cohen decided to record a second studio album. He began working on the new songs immediately after the debut was released. Lyrically, Cohen worked more and more with metaphors in the new songs . Cohen took inspiration for the texts from literary works, e. B. by Christian Morgenstern or Georg Trakl . Some of the texts were written while Cohen was sitting on the Kiel Canal .
Musically, Cohen tried to achieve a wave- rocky production that puts more emphasis on the bass than on the guitars . At the same time, Cohen tried new styles, such as B. Country on Just a Heartbeat or Blues on The Holy Grail . In total, Cohen had ten song sketches before recording, all of which ended up on the album.
As with the first album, Cohen produced and recorded the album himself. The recordings took place in Kiel in the former rehearsal room of the band Smoke Blow . Cohen was supported by the guitarist Jan Späth, the bassist Björn Seitz and the drummer Norm Rehse.
For the songs here is not Hollywood and New blood were music videos rotated. Hollywood is not here was released as a single on October 16, 2015 as part of Record Store Week. In addition to the title song, the single contains an acoustic version of the song Kapitän as the B-side .
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With the album title, Erik Cohen wants to express the inner artistic calm and satisfaction that comes with hearing the songs. The texts by Weisses Rauschen deal with problems that, according to Erik Cohen, everyone has to struggle with. Partly it is about his own person, partly the lyrics are also about his musical socialization.
The song Your Demons is about a love relationship in which both partners notice that one is not doing each other well and both partners pull each other down. Nevertheless, the two people cannot get away from each other. In the song New Blood , Erik Cohen sings about his years of experience in the music business. He refers to people with whom he has to fight, for hatred and resentment . With the song The Holy Grail , Cohen settles accounts with self-appointed scene guards who describe him as a traitor because of the musical direction of his solo project .
“These people are afraid that someone will take something away from them. That's totally banana. I don't belong to any scene, I'm my own! "
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For Katrin Riedl from the German magazine Metal Hammer , Weisses Rauschen is an album that “packs heavy words into light melodies”. Erik Cohen described her as a “fragile, eloquent and gifted German poet with his heart in the right place”. The lyrics of songs like your demons , rain and the holy grail would "make you think with their difficult to decipherable phrases". Riedl rated the album with six out of seven points. According to Ronny Bittner from the German magazine Rock Hard , Cohen would “sit between the chairs even more than with his debut album”. On Weisses Rauschen there are “plenty of good songs again”. "Anyone who takes off their blinkers and lets themselves fall into Cohen World will be rewarded with a great listening experience," for which Bittner awarded eight out of ten points. Markus Hockenbrink from the German magazine Visions was more critical . Although he praised Cohen's "blunt rock sound that coolly defies the hip indie and hardcore shit", he criticized at the same time that "this works mainly thanks to Jack Lotten's casual I-have-seen-everything-right". Hockenbrink awarded seven out of twelve points.
Weisses Rauschen entered the German album charts at number 74.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Melanie Sauter: Erik Cohen - Walk of f (l) ame. (No longer available online.) Whiskey-soda.de , archived from the original on January 19, 2016 ; Retrieved January 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Frank Thiessies: The single scene fighter . In: Metal Hammer , February 2016, page 54
- ↑ a b c Flo Hayler: Schizophrenia of everyday life . In: Visions , issue 274, page 30
- ↑ a b Richard Mertens: Interview on the new album "Weisses Rauschen". (No longer available online.) Metal.de, archived from the original on January 19, 2016 ; Retrieved January 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Erik Cohen in the German charts. GfK Entertainment, accessed on January 23, 2016 .
- ^ Katrin Riedl: Erik Cohen - Weisses Rauschen . In: Metal Hammer, February 2016, page 84
- ^ Ronny Bittner: Erik Cohen - Weisses Rauschen . In: Rock Hard , February 2016, page 99
- ^ Markus Hockenbrink: Erik Cohen - Weisses Rauschen . In: Visions, issue 274, page 95
