Bärenmann
by bergen
-
Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
€8 EUR or more
-
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumIncludes unlimited streaming of Bärenmann via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 days
€13 EUR or more
1. |
Bärenmann
04:31
|
|
||
2. |
Wie ist das bei Dir?
04:54
|
|
||
3. |
Haus aus Orange
03:44
|
|
||
4. |
Bärenmann 2
06:16
|
|
||
5. |
Rennen
04:03
|
|
||
6. |
Schwierige Zeiten
06:58
|
|
||
7. |
Für eine weitere Nacht
04:06
|
|
||
8. |
Iona
06:01
|
|
about
bergen ist eine Band aus Dresden und ihr Ansatz ist ein, nun ja, eher spezieller. Denn statt über Störche, Tütensuppe und reitende Prinzen (auf dem bergen-Debüt „Gegenteil von Stadt“ von 2009) singen die Sachsen auf ihrem zweiten Album Bärenmann auf einmal über alte Zausel, die sich Fell ins Gesicht kleben, um zwischen sieben und acht auf eigene Faust den Verkehr zu regeln, runzelige Frauen am Badewannenrand, verknallte Paare, die sich am Feierabend einen Suizid per Livestream im Internet angucken oder immer wieder über verkitschte, nicht mehr ganz so jugendliche Liebe, die einen durch den nächsten Winter bringen muss und dabei vielleicht auch schon die letzte ist. Verpackt wird das Ganze in einfache Popsongs mit Folk-Appeal, mit Klavier, Gitarren, Schlagzeug, Bass, Klarinetten und große Melodiebögen zeichnende Bläser. bergen machen in der Sache da weiter, wo Distelmeyers Apfelmann aufgehört hat, sind kauzig und verschachtelt aber dann in ihren Harmonien wieder so simpel, traditionell und angenehm, dass man beim Hören reflexartig die Füße hochlegen möchte.
English:
bergen is a band from Dresden, Germany, and their approach to music is a peculiar one. Rather than storks, powdered soup and princes galloping on their horses (topics from their debut “Gegenteil von Stadt” in 2009), the songs off their second record “Bärenmann” deal with windswept, old fellows gluing fur to their faces and regulating traffic in the early morning, with wrinkly women on the edge of their bathtub, and lovey-dovey couples watching someone’s suicide via livestream at the end of the day. You get the idea. Mainly though, their songs deal with love. A love that’s neither wild nor youthful anymore, but one that you depend on to get you through the winter. A love that may already be your last. Their simple, folksy pop songs bear an irritatingly close relation to German Schlager music. Expansive melodies by brass and wind instruments, piano, clarinets, guitar, drums, and bass. The intricate and the odd bouncing off of the traditional and the homely. These songs appear both, conservative and strange, eccentric and lethargic. Most likely, it was these contrasts that convinced Ekimas - producer and bassist of the German critic’s darlings Erdmöbel - to sew the fitting costume for bergen’s “Bärenmann” (engl. “bear man”). Eight extensive songs about hopeless battles, weirdos, and relationships way beyond the “Sturm und Drang”.
English:
bergen is a band from Dresden, Germany, and their approach to music is a peculiar one. Rather than storks, powdered soup and princes galloping on their horses (topics from their debut “Gegenteil von Stadt” in 2009), the songs off their second record “Bärenmann” deal with windswept, old fellows gluing fur to their faces and regulating traffic in the early morning, with wrinkly women on the edge of their bathtub, and lovey-dovey couples watching someone’s suicide via livestream at the end of the day. You get the idea. Mainly though, their songs deal with love. A love that’s neither wild nor youthful anymore, but one that you depend on to get you through the winter. A love that may already be your last. Their simple, folksy pop songs bear an irritatingly close relation to German Schlager music. Expansive melodies by brass and wind instruments, piano, clarinets, guitar, drums, and bass. The intricate and the odd bouncing off of the traditional and the homely. These songs appear both, conservative and strange, eccentric and lethargic. Most likely, it was these contrasts that convinced Ekimas - producer and bassist of the German critic’s darlings Erdmöbel - to sew the fitting costume for bergen’s “Bärenmann” (engl. “bear man”). Eight extensive songs about hopeless battles, weirdos, and relationships way beyond the “Sturm und Drang”.
credits
released January 18, 2013
tags
license
all rights reserved
about
K&F Records Dresden, Germany
Das Dresdner Label K&F Records kommt ursprünglich aus der Singer/Songwriter-Ecke, knarzt, rummst und klackert aber in
letzter Zeit immer wieder von ganzem Herzen.
K&F Records is primarily in the Singer-/ Songwriter business. Still it also likes the full band swing. It has an office in Dresden, Germany, in which everyone is working the nightshift.
... more
discography
-
Jan 2017 -
Nov 2016 -
Nov 2016 -
Nov 2016
