Auferstehung
Occupation
- Programming, Piano: Tobias Hahn
- Vocals: Dirk Riegert
- Vocals: Antje Schulz I want his head
- Vocals: Jessica Biedenkapp survival
- Narrator: Torsten Michaelis resurrection
- Narrator: Jürgen Neumann If you are standing in front of me
- Guitar: Oliver Lohmann
- Guitar, Programming: Jochen ski Betz
- Bass: Robert Beyer
- Drums: Lothar way
- Darbuka, Djembe: John Abdel- Sayed
- Orchestra: Violin, Viola: Katrin Ebert:
- Violin: Tina Koegel, Anja Schmitz, Claudia Laue
- Viola: Svenja Sauter, Torsten Rettinger
- Cello: Martin Höfert, Catherine Crane
- Bass: Natalie ice
- Trumpet, flugelhorn: Mathias son
- Trumpet: Jens Rau
- Flugelhorn: Peter Hergert
- Trombone: Carsten Christgau, Carsten Weinau
- Percussion, marimba: Lothar way
- Bells, Triangle: Eugene de la Fontaine
- Eckhard Stadler: Choral Conducting
- Soprano: Bianca Gröbe, Sigrid Schneisel, Daniela Winkler
- Old: Susann Graute, Anja Russow, jasmine bristle
- Tenor: Oliver Graute, Thilo Stern, Wolfgang Hecht
- Bass: Oliver Hoffmann, Gregory Haverkemper, Mathias Baitter
Resurrection is published in 2004, third studio album by the German band Janus. The individual pieces are connected by a thematic thread. Core content, all pieces are traumatic events and their effect on the human psyche, with a focus on female protagonists.
Content
Contrary to popular belief, resurrection would be created as a total concept album about the particularly unique character called Paula, singer Dirk Riegert describes the substantive theme of the album as a general:
"It's hard to say how this continuity has emerged in history. It was not thought that this is a person there, revolves around the plot. But it comes across so and many people interpret it that way, which I was quite surprised. One interpretation is, for example, that the songs, Paula once at the beginning and then at the end represent ... So that was never intended. We wanted to organize the songs only makes sense. I have hitherto never expected that people see as a common thread. "
Almost all texts are contrary to the earlier publications, father and sleeping dogs, mainly related to women. Core of all the titles are in the process of human borderline situations and trauma as well as the search for identity and invention.
" Traumatic events, such as the death of a loved one in " You look just like always" or the nightmare of a dark family secret in "survival" are the biggest threat to our fragile mental health. On this border between delusion and will to survive, all texts move from "Resurrection". "
Riegert describes the title of Paula's game, which before the album existed for a long time, as a creative nucleus of the album, around which other similar content pieces were arranged. After this substantive decision Janus decided when you 're standing in front of me to put forward the Kafka quote the album:
"When you stand before me and look at me, what do you know of the pain that is in me and what I know of yours. And when I would prostrate before you and cry and tell what you knew of me than of hell, if someone tells you it is hot and terrible. For this reason alone we should man so in awe of each other, so thoughtful, so loving stand like the entrance to hell. "
Riegert said this, that he considered that the common thread of resurrection by the quote " is summarized very powerful ." The Kafka quote should be first put the lyrics in the booklet beforehand. Later, however, the band decided the text, slightly altered, orchestral accompanied to let recite by the radio presenter and radio speaker Jürgen Neumann.
Almost all the other pieces thematize women's lives, either from authorial narrative perspective ( Paula's game, The days are getting closer, Paula's dream ) or from the perspective of a close male narrator ( I want his head, broken face, eighty-nine, survival, resurrection ).
This thread, however, with the piece You look like always, which circumscribes a sick visit to a dying friend, broken. Is also found in this story a woman again; but directs the encounter with the wife of the patient and their grief the title only. Their role decreases in the course of the play in importance, so that the piece deals with the beginning of the third stanza of direct confrontation with the thoughts and feelings of the narrator:
" The world without you, the thought slips away. So close and yet a strange world. We have never learned the other to keep it if it falls. We cling to the silence as a glimmer of hope and we dance our dance Do not let go. "
After Riegert is the piece, despite the substantive breach the " ideal link between the optimism at the end of" survival and the swan song in the title song dar. "
Style
The album is primarily associated with the New German hardness. In addition, the band uses a variety of other musical styles and arranged for example, the title shards face about big- beat rhythms or waiting with massive orchestral arrangement in the title track resurrection. Almost all the pieces were recorded with an abundance of guest and session musicians. Only Eighty-nine, which was the day of the final mixdown, has been recorded only by Tobias Hahn and Dirk Rieger.
Small fears
Shortly before the final completion of the album, and after three years of work on resurrection Trisol expressed the desire to publish a bonus CD. Janus, however, did not want quickly produced publication and could not get used to the idea of a simple bonus CD.
" A couple of remixes, live bootlegs and unreleased demos seemed to us little tempting. "
Once, however, turned to Oliver Graute by RPG publisher White Wolf with a corresponding request to the band changed the attitude of the band to release a bonus CD. Graute, which was responsible for the layout of the entire CD design, the belt for a few songs to the publication of that time at White Wolf newly laid RPG asked to write small fears.
"A few weeks later and daring ideas, we had seven all-new songs, set to music written by me a story about LITTLE FEARS and some excellent drawings of Oliver Schlemmer, which form a unit together with the songs and the story in the best tradition of JANUS. "
The bonus CD Small fears lay, including an additional 28-page Booklest, at about 3000 limited edition of the album at Resurrection. As an added bonus, the band released the story adventitious as a limited edition of 666 copies CD. In this version, which was to acquire only through the band's own website, the story appeared as a spoken by Reinhard Schulat - Rademacher audiobook.
Artwork
The entire creative design was for the Italian artist Alessandro Bavari, which has been responsible for the creative design of the Tea Party album The Interzone Mantras. His image Nuove prognathism inspired Dirk Riegert to transfer to him the design of the album. Oliver Schlemmer, who had already taken over the design of the previous albums father and sleeping dogs, contributed to the design of the audio book. The cover to Small fears Schlemmer has created together with Marko Djurdjevic. For the entire layouts and fonts eventually was responsible Oliver Graute of White Wolf.
Criticism
Lars Schubert of the music magazine DNA Six called Resurrection " a roller coaster ride through the human sense of the cosmos, which seems often to play underground. " Peter Sailer was in the music magazine Orcus 10 of 10 possible points for the album and called it the " perfect combination of music and text "and" a dark trip, on the one hand, although heavy upon the soul, on the other hand, is just as powerful - as soulful. " Sailer added criticism for the magazine Zillo and raised here, the texts produced. They were among the best in the thematic context of the album and were " both directly and aptly and metaphor only and veiled " Thorsten Kübler from the magazine Sonic Seducer summarizes the album and described it as " [e ] sublime igenständig and beyond any doubt ".