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01. ANDREAS DORAU - Immer nur warten
02. ANDREAS DORAU - Sei steif!
03. ANDREAS DORAU - Demokratie
04. ANDREAS DORAU - Sucht eure Tat
05. ANDREAS DORAU - Taxi nach Shibuya
06. ANDREAS DORAU - Blume 86
07. ANDREAS DORAU - Tradition
08. ANDREAS DORAU - Frauenfüße
09. ANDREAS DORAU - Stehst du an der Himmelspforte
10. ANDREAS DORAU - Na, du alte Kuh
11. ANDREAS DORAU - Ein Liebesraum
12. ANDREAS DORAU - Ein Fall für Dr. D
13. ANDREAS DORAU - Immer noch warten
14. ANDREAS DORAU - Willi im Busch
15. ANDREAS DORAU - Ein Tropfen geht ans Land
16. ANDREAS DORAU - Menschenschicksale (1st Version)
17. ANDREAS DORAU - Ein Liebesraum (Remix)
ARTIST
TITLE
Demokratie
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BB 113CD BB 113CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2012

German new wave (Neue Deutsche Welle, NDW) reached its peak in 1983. In the public eye, Andreas Dorau was considered an important representative of NDW. But the sensitive artist had no desire to be thrown in the same basket as the terrible monstrosities of what had become a commercially exploited trend. Not that he felt any closer to the contemporary "underground" music of the day. "All far too dark. I didn't want to have anything more to do with music. Back then underground music wasn't allowed to be melodic. The dominant belief was: melody = stupid. And I wanted melodies." Dorau turned his back to the music business and moved to Munich and took his film studies seriously. Until one day, Ata Tak founder Moritz Rrr called him up and asked Dorau if he fancied an informal exchange of ideas with artists from Berlin, no strings attached. He did fancy it, and slowly but surely, he began to have fun again with music. At the same time, Dorau amassed a formidable record collection, largely from the 1960s. And so names like The Left Banke, Van Dyke Parks and The Move rotated on his record player. The idea to make a new album dawned on him gradually. Dorau recorded, discarded material, wrote lyrics, overdubbed, arranged, discarded more material. So, he would rearrange, one track after another, so on and so forth. It was clearly a painstaking process. Still, a few songs fell into place. What he needed now was a producer. Off he went, to Birmingham to enlist his idol Roy Wood (The Move, ELO) as his producer. It could have been the beginning of a beautiful musical collaboration, if Wood had not happened to play an album by his favorite artist at that time. Dorau was back on the train to London before the first side of No Jacket Required had ended. Efforts to enlist Peter Thomas as producer also came to nothing and Dorau ultimately decided to take care of the job himself. David Cunningham (Flying Lizards) helped Dorau to enlist the English composer Michael Nyman as arranger on Demokratie. Says Dorau: "I wanted to create pop music, as far as possible without guitars, simply different." Baroque pop/Roy Wood/Michael Nyman/melodies/no guitars, or thereabouts/electronics/Mayo Thompson also gets in on the act: an interesting mix! Includes two bonus tracks.