The style of the German shock-rockers seems light-years of the classic music removed — but only at first glance. Upon closer Listening, one can see clear Similarities, says DW-music editor, Rick Fulker.
“This is art!”, the German composer Torsten said on the music of Rammstein. Quickly, some Songs of the Band, edited and made a song cycle for solo voice and Symphony orchestra of it, appeared to burn on CD in 2004 under the title My heart.
The result is not a Crossover project, the move to a low common denominator was: In the free editing of the songs, the Similarity to the Original is not always audible. Rapidly settled mainly by the lyrics inspire you and gave you a stylish garment that looks more like contemporary serious music and to the voice of the renowned Opera singer René Pape was tailored.
An adaptation of a Rammstein song, the something “sounds classical,” was “sailor”, 2003 by Nina Hagen and the group Apolyptica covered. In the following year, the Band Gregorian recorded the song “angel” and flavored it with male vocals in the style of Gregorian chant.
On an affinity for the “classical” culture in a broader sense, Rammstein lead singer Till interpret Lindemann’s interest in the poetry of Bertolt Brecht’s and a book with his own poems, which appeared in 2013 under the name of silent nights.
Abroad rain Rammstein lyrics people the English to learn. There are also people who learn to play the piano, to play the songs yourself?
Classic style elements and allusions
Information on the proximity of the Band to the classical music, there are many. On the current European stadium tour, the audience is fueled by a Duo called Jatekok, with the French pianists of Adélaïde Panaget and Naïri Bandal: play songs from Rammstein’s Best-Of Album piano. Together with the recordings of an 80-page, hardcover note book 2015, from the Fans to the songs on the home piano again, can give. A recognition of an old Tradition, because prior to the invention of the phonograph piano excerpts served as a means for mass dissemination of music. The clear structure of the songs and their catchy tunes make this form more appropriate than the music of any other band that comes to mind.
As a nice nod to the pyrotechnics, you may at a Rammstein Show, expect the sound of Georg Friedrich Handel’s fireworks music between the Jatekok insert and the loud Bang that heralds the appearance of Rammstein itself.
Rammstein and classical music: It is more than the edits, references, and support bands. Also the stylistic characteristics: The current song of Germany ends with a long, melancholy piano solo. String sounds determine is burning the Track in My heart , and Show yourself to lush choir is heard singing.
Basically, classic
During the 27-city tour, the media reports almost on a daily basis. It Shows in Riga and Tampere is yet to come, from there it goes to Stockholm and Oslo, then to the final in Vienna on 22. August. In the Reports there was once a dispute between Lindemann and a Fan, with application of physical violence. Other topics included the wiring of the jaw of the front man were to let light out of his mouth radiation – or the same-sex kiss, and Rammstein’s performances in Russia scandal materialized: In the Land of homosexual Propaganda “is”, namely a criminal offence.
Often small differences in the performance of individual songs are sufficient, however, to call music journalists on the Plan that you suggest then. This can only be because the Songs and the performances so well-known and fully developed, that they serve as a reference. Far from the spontaneous, seemingly chaotic Jam Session-character, the Rock-and – Metal grace signed concerts often, the Rammstein band members in a self-developed frame of reference of their through-composed songs, and precisely staged performances. This can certainly be called “classic”.
Between “classical” and “classical music” is a difference, of Course, Rammstein doesn’t sound even remotely like the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky or A little night music by Mozart. How are you then classic? A glance at the dictionary will help you. Among the many definitions of the word in the dictionary is this: “(in terms of appearance or shape) in a (long standing) patterns of valid ways (listed below), complete, timeless”.
Typical Rammstein: Even in the costumes of Horror and Ulk stuck
Artistic expression on different levels
It is also a form of completion. Also the unmistakably own sound of epic is not the ends – of the sounds to say the least, and often quite nice. In 2001, a critic of the magazine Jam Showbiz about the Song mother wrote that this was “music, could you invaded Poland”. The “droning, subliminal voice” of Till Lindemann described the Southland Times of new Zealand as something that “the farmer is hunting in your barns, and you have to lock your doors”.
The guys from Rammstein have found your style and get. Her Motto: “do your thing and overdo it!” said it again, the drummer Christoph Schneider.
But where is the style? To Ljubljana, there are different influences of Nina Hagen, Depeche Mode and the Slovenian Band. Include style elements of Industrial Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, and electronics; also: Punk, Rock, Pop and Gothic.
But probably the decisive factor keyboardist Christian “Flake explains,” Lorenz understandable way: “The style we did, we did not know all of exactly what we want. We have realized that we can only music that we play. And is hold very simple, dull, monotonous.”
You could add also a profound, startling, and sometimes but also tender and melancholic. If you would call a classical composer who has a similar uncompromising attack on the soul of the household, then he would be Richard Wagner.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinNot dissimilar to: Wagner and Rammstein
Both polarize. You either love their music or you hate it. This is not the only one Richard Wagner, and the Band Rammstein have in common. The music of both has depth and is not afraid of any extreme state of mind. If you love Wagner, it is well possible that it is also love Rammstein.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinIt was pretty scary
Rammstein’s lyrics often concern serious issues, including child abuse, cannibalism or necrophilia. In Wagner’s experience, in addition to robbery and murder, even incest, or a Ghost ship that is doomed to eternal sailing. The latter story sounds today, almost cute, but had to dread earlier times potential. Disgust, fear, thrill and taboo appealed to people then as it is today.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinAbroad estimated
Rammstein are in some countries known as some celebrity in Germany. And although many Germans do not feel in the case of Richard Wagner, in some way, it is estimated partly in the foreign higher: English and Japanese pilgrims every year to the Bayreuth festival. And no country can surpass France in terms of “Wagnerisme”.
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Wagne(r)ammstein“Mother, give me strength!”
The character, Siegfried in the eponymous Wagner Opera thinks about the mother he never knew. Rammstein’s Song “mother” is from the dystopia of a retort child; the singer screams: “mother, give me strength!” Siegfried sings in his turn: “Oh, I’d like to see the son of my mother!” The existential Need is great: On a scale of 1 to 10 is an 11.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinA total work of art on the stage
It is the combination of music, Text and Drama, the essence of Wagner’s total work of art. Similar to Rammstein, the not get along not only with shock effect and bezirzender music. To belong to Rammstein, the perfectly produced music videos and stage shows subtle with pyrotechnics, and many other overwhelming effects.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinNotes for the house music
21. Anniversary of the band have issued Rammstein 2015 “XXI – The music book piano”: It includes 13 songs from six albums, for high voice and piano edited. On this path you made earlier also Wagner’s music for the mass: Before there were vinyl records or CDs, you could play Siegfried’s forging song, or the ride of the Valkyries in the own four walls.
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Wagne(r)ammsteinTexts in the German language
Wagner wrote his operas themselves. The verquaste Wagner English, however, language study is not recommended. Better for the texts of Rammstein’s suitable. And that is exactly what is done: On a number of Internet portals, it says: “learn German with Rammstein.”
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Wagne(r)ammsteinMusic on the Index
Works in Germany on the Index, must not be sold to young people. Again and again we tried to index the Rammstein Tracks, mostly without success. Wagner, in turn, stands on a kind of unofficial Index in Israel. Due to the anti – Semitism of the composer and many there do not want to be on the music evokes, which was celebrated on the NS-time, so exuberant.
Here is a piece of music theory, very simply explained: major keys often sound happy, minor for sad. Almost all of the songs Rammstein’s in a minor key-are keys, is not particularly remarkable: This obviously applies to most pop songs today. But would it be possible to surpass the abysmal sadness in the song angel once, in what Genre, always?
You or you hate?
The performances of Rammstein have more to do with an Opera production than the average rock concert. Also Gags, we have known for years — such as the Preserving of the “Flake” Lorenz in a large soup pot when cannibalism-song — be detail studiously acted and act again and again.
Of course there are also those other side Rammstein: In your texts, conspiracy theorist constantly looking for secret knowledge, and the tape remains in the right-hand corner of the popular – even if you are not belonging there. Discomfort contemporary German, the use of film sequences, with echoes of the work of Leni Riefenstahl, the film propagandist of Adolf Hitler – or the apparent glorification of Macho-posturing, or simply Lindemann’s rolling “R”, which is reminiscent of the time of the third Reich and the, deserved or not, the perception of the group as a very “English” in foreign countries contributing.
The other day, a colleague from a trip to Canada, told me. When he said people where he came from, someone said, “Ahh, Germany! Rammstein!” He was then asked, what is the song title of “You’re” means – in the assumption that it would probably be something terrible. The canadian was almost disappointed to learn that the title seems harmless and that it goes in the song to a marriage proposal. Well, it sounds like “You hate” – and for Rammstein typical ambiguous way, has translated the tape once the title with a Translation in English as “You Hate”.
The audience in mind
Whether there are among the tens of Thousands who have heard of Rammstein along with Jatekok now, a lot of interested in, then for Piano duos, is unknown.
On tour with Rammstein and Jatekok “angel on the run” together
But when it comes to the musical overall effect of the Band, comes a letter in the sense that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his father wrote. He places the view in the composer workshop, and it shows that these professionals, has been included at the end of the high art of his listeners into account. About the piano concertos, where Amadeus was working, he wrote: “The Concerts are just the medium between what is too hard and too easy … here and there – can get connoisseur alone satisfaction, but so that the don’t have to be a connoisseur happy, without knowing why.”
A Rammstein-Song. He is accessible, and you can win the first time you Listen to a lot of. You listen to him, but later, you realize that it can be received on different levels. This is a “classic”.