Showtime (Bro'Sis album)
Occupation
Ross Antony Hila Bronstein Shaham Joyce Faiz Mangat Giovanni Zarrella
Showtime (English for the performance begins ) is the third and final album by the German R & B band Bro'Sis. The record reached number 24 in the German Media Control Album Charts.
Background
The third album Showtime Bro'Sis had the first time the possibility of self-written and produced songs bring. After the failure of the second album the band decided to align the identity of the new group and to fight against the prejudices than casting tape. The band wanted to be seen as credible R & B- hip-hop - pop band. "We wanted the past largely behind us and start again, to reinvent ourselves virtually. " Faiz Mangat explained the goals for the third album. Hila Bronstein also was euphoric: "With this record, we are free to fight us and enforce our actual musical style to one hundred percent. Our main goal is that people recognize us for what we really are. "
The recordings began in October 2003 and lasted four months. In the first two months of the recordings in the Benz Town Studios took place in Stuttgart, where the band worked on eight original songs. Here, the producer Peter Hoff gave them examples of music and the members enrolled separately in different rooms of their parts. Ross Antony and Giovanni Zarrella wrote the verses, Faiz Mangat the chorus, Hila Bronstein, the Bridges and Shaham Joyce Rapp Arts.
Add to Better Music Studios in Frankfurt, the band recorded songs from other producers in the next two months.
Overall, it finally did on the album two self-penned songs. In addition to the written by the whole band ballad Wanna Be Free provides the Funk U written by Faiz Mangat a settlement with the excreted Indira and the critics of the band dar. addition, three on the album written by the band introductions ( intro ) and an outro available. The song included on the album Lie About Us was later released as a duet with Avant and Nicole Scherzinger.
On March 29, was published in 2004 as a forerunner to the album, the single U Build Me Up. Written and produced was the first single from Fredrik " Fredro " Odesjo, who had worked for Dannii Minogue and Billy Crawford. The video was shot in the disused power station Berlin Rummelsburg in the Köpenick district. The main part of the clip plays in the former staff room of the power plant. In addition, backstage scenes of the band included, which the manager Anja Lukaseder had turned in recent years in the video. However, the single failed to meet expectations and rose in the German single charts only ranked 20. This had the consequence that the announced for 19 April 2004, the release was postponed several times.
For the album release on 30 August 2004, the song Make Up Your Mind was decoupled, which was, however, no longer published as a single, but only as a video and promo CD. The video was shot in an unfinished subway tunnel under the Berlin Reichstag. The album got positive reviews, in which the new sound of the band with that of the early Black Eyed Peas were compared.
Showtime recorded the least successful album of the band started with number 24. After three weeks, the album fell off the charts. In Austria and Switzerland, the album missed the chart entry.
Due to the disappointing sales figures, the animated series Wiggle It was - The Adventures of Bro'Sis, save in the Bro'Sis in 13 episodes in addition to her music career as an agent the world, not broadcast. Actually a broadcast on RTL 2 in the fall of 2004 was planned. Since then, the broadcast of the series is on hold.
In late 2004 the band a record deal with Universal expired and was not renewed. In 2005, the band embarked mainly live performances. It also gave the opportunity to work on individual projects. The in fall 2005 announced as " artistic break " break who wanted to use the individual members for their solo projects, in early 2006 proved to be a definitive separation.
Title list
Chart positions
Album
Singles
U Build Me Up (29 March 2004)
U Build Me Up ( Pock It) (29 March 2004)
Music videos
Live
Since Bro'Sis could no longer fill the halls with their own tour, they accepted the offer to join as a " Special Guest ", the new Popstars band Overground and Preluders on tour and introduced five new songs of the third album.