Wherever
| Wherever | |
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| Peter Heppner | |
| publication | January 27, 2009 |
| length | 4:13 |
| Genre (s) | Synth pop |
| Author (s) | Peter Heppner, Dirk Riegner |
| album | solo |
Wherever ( English for ". Wherever") is a song of the German synth pop - singer Peter Heppner . The piece is the second and final single from his debut album solo .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Peter Heppner and Dirk Riegner. The instrumentalization, production and programming was done by the British musician Peter-John Vettese . The programming was done by Vettese in collaboration with Mark "Tufty" Evans. He was also responsible for mixing and the final engineering. The piece was mastered in the Hamburg Master & Servant Studios, under the direction of Tom Meyer. The sound recordings were made from April to May 2008 in London Area 21, the mixing took place in London's Wispington Studio.
For the cover picture , Heppner was photographed on the one hand in a black and on the other hand in a white outfit while sitting on a stool . On the cover of the single, in addition to the artist name and album title, only Heppner can be seen. It is kept in black and white and consists of two different photographs that meet or are divided in the middle of the cover. On the left half of the cover you can see Heppner, who has turned his gaze to the left and is wearing a white shirt. On the right half of the cover he wears a black outfit. Both pictures were taken from the front, but the pictures are placed in such a way that Heppner's face cannot be recognized. It is the same cover picture as for the previously released single Aloneein . The same artwork concept can be found in a different variant on the cover image of the album solo . The photographs are by Mathias Bothor and Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube. The design concept comes from HORT-Berlin.
Publication and promotion
Wherever was first published on January 27, 2009 as a single download in Germany. The single was released under the Warner Bros. Records label, published by Hanseatic MV and pH-Werk Musikverlag, and distributed by Universal Music Publishing . A music video for Wherever was not made. On January 28, 2014, Heppner published an acoustic version of the song with the title Wherever (… There's Wintertime…) on its various social media platforms . He was only accompanied musically by Dirk Riegner on the keyboard.
content
The lyrics to Wherever are written in English, translated into German the title means something like: "Wherever". The music was written by Peter Heppner and Dirk Riegner, the text specially written by Heppner. Musically, the song moves in the field of synth pop . The song is built on two stanzas and a chorus between the stanzas as well as a repetitive one after the second stanza.
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reception
To date, the single has not been able to place in any official charts and exact sales figures are also not known.
- Reviews
The German-language online magazine laut.de rated the overall product solo with 3/5 stars. Artur Schulz called Wherever during his review as "indulgent". With the piece, Heppner finally hits the “victorious blow” against the “never-tired, insatiable powers of darkness”.
Frank Stienen from the German-language music website monkeypress.de is of the opinion that Wherever could have been a nice B-Side. No more and no less.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Online database - musical works. online.gema.de, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Peter Heppner - solo. discogs.com, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Wherever - Single. itunes.apple.com, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ^ Peter Heppner - Articles. facebook.com, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ On the brink of midnight, the Whisperer will save you. laut.de, accessed on December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Peter Heppner - solo. monkeypress.de, accessed December 30, 2017 .