Since September 28, 2012, the new JOACHIM WITT album "DOM" is available.
It is not a planned trilogy, but it is one: The 1981 single "Goldener Reiter", "Die Flut" 17 years later, and "Gloria" in 2012. The work of the artist Joachim Witt, condensed into milestones, describes the life of the person behind it - in three acts, with all imaginable highs and lows. Songs by Joachim Witt are more than just musical statements; they are also eyewitness accounts of a biography.
It is not a classic, continuous success story, the history of Joachim Witt. Until the age of 32, he is pursued by the fears, compulsions, and tensions of a German generation that tries to escape its former subservience to fascism by terrorizing the youth with incessant restrictions, Teutonic discipline, and supposed virtue. Witt breaks this system for himself by choosing his music; music that has a similar impact on Germany as the beat bands of the 60s had on the English-speaking world.
The "Goldene Reiter" - a product of deep depression and incredible disgust for existing conventions - hits the nerve of the masses in a peculiar way and becomes not only the anthem of an entire generation but also an instant classic. Joachim's long-held doubt of ever being able to escape the bourgeoisie of the mid and late seventies through his nonconformist soundscapes is dispelled. At least for now, because the Neue Deutsche Welle - initially an artistic breakthrough - degenerates into an industrial entertainment event, dragging its protagonists into the inevitable abyss. So too Joachim Witt.
Brave albums like the industrial-funk broadside "Mit Rucksack und Harpune" from 1985 or the tragicomedy "Kapitän der Träume" produced with Annette Humpe in 1992 turn into disastrous flops because the label NDW sticks to Witt like an old chewing gum. Six years off as a private man, a failed marriage, and a lost love later, "Die Flut" builds up in 1998, an eruption of world-weariness captured in chords that captivates many more - and above all different - listeners at the turn of the millennium than "Goldener Reiter". Witt has finally been able to leave the NDW stamp behind as the figurehead of the Neue Deutsche Welle.
The "Werkreihe Bayreuth" shows a completely new Joachim Witt; one who, as an eternal leftist, is not too refined to draw Wagner's pathos from the right swamp without swinging the actually obligatory moral club. When the commercial aspect of the series fades into the background after "Bayreuth zwei", his employer Sony Music wants to impose artistic regulations on him - and thereby loses one of its few indispensable stubborn heads.
Witt also loses, namely his financial support. The self-released works "Pop" and "Bayreuth 3" are, despite relatively high sales figures, flops that cannot even cover the horrendous advertising expenses. In 2007, Joachim Witt says goodbye to the music industry. Until, now in his late 50s, the thought of a "cathedral of pop music" comes to him.
The basic idea was provided by Harry Gutowski, that multi-instrumentalist and childhood friend who was already heard on bass during the recording of "Goldener Reiter". His orchestral film music for a ZDF production inspires Witt to rethink his "Bayreuth" concept and refine it with classical influences. The album title "DOM" grows naturally, the single "Gloria" is created - in collaboration with composer Michelle Leonard and producer Mirko Schaffer - in its original form in a single evening. Witt experiences the same high feeling while writing the piece as he did when composing his two previous classics - and he realizes that there always has to be a certain number of dreary years before he can deliver a masterpiece in the end. The trilogy gets its well-deserved happy ending.
Sony Music is proud to be able to release part three in cooperation with Starwatch Entertainment, the music and entertainment label of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group… and to have finally regained its indispensable stubborn head in Joachim Witt.
Tracklisting:
01. Gloria
02. Jetzt Geh
03. Tränen
04. Blut
05. Königreich
06. Beben
07. Mut eines Kriegers
08. Licht im Ozean
09. Komm nie wieder zurück
10. Leichtsinn
11. Untergehen
Shoplinks:
Amazon: www.amazon.de/dp/B008PXDM2C
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/dom-deluxe-version/id561508164
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