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Summer Days In Bloom

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Released: Jan 24, 2005

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Summer Days In Bloom
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Polyester
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No One's Child
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Nana (piano version)
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General Info

Genre: Acoustic / Alternative / Pop
Location Berlin, Deutschland
Profile Views: 468791
Last Login: 5/19/2012
Member Since 8/2/2005
Website www.maximilian-hecker.com
Record Label Blue Soldier Records / Pocket Records / Pastel Music / Gold Typhoon Music / Love Da Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
In 2008, German Singer-Songwriter Maximilian Hecker reached a point at which he was no longer able to find any satisfaction in his career. He felt that, since the decision he had taken seven years earlier to make music his profession, he had seldom been successful in expressing genuine emotion in concerts or studio recordings. Hecker felt himself to be constricted in a corset of perfectionism and conventions – partly self-inflicted, partly dictated by outsiders. Retrospectively, he explained, that a large part of what he had achieved on stage and in the studio had been only a rudimentary excerpt of his feelings, that the channel to his soul felt as if it had been obstructed in such recordings and live performances. The studio work on his last album »One Day« in April 2008 turned into some kind of torture for Hecker; a smouldering, gnawing fear of failure became his constant companion. He lost his voice, meaning that recordings had to be interrupted for weeks at a time. And his seventh tour of Asia that took place in November of the same year turned into an excruciating experience for him: sold-out concerts, the frequently quoted »squealing girls«, but Hecker did not find any redemption for his »death of heart«. And then there was Nana. Nana, a Japanese prostitute whom Hecker met in Tokyo at the moment he was at rock bottom. This encounter, which was cathartic and traumatic at the same time – described in the song of the same name on the album – heralded for Hecker his »decomposing mode«, as he calls it: in order to »survive«, he started to destroy all the suffocating elements in his environment – he liberated himself from narcissistic demands, stopped shaving, wore jogging pants as everyday clothing, distanced himself from women, even from the idea of finding true love one day. And he began to make street music again, or rather, to »meditate publicly«, up to six hours at a time, just singing if no one was specifically listening to him – for this was the only way to keep open the path to his soul. And eventually, Maximilian Hecker began to record his new songs at home, shortly after composing them, using the simplest equipment (often only one room microphone). Exposed to all the street noise and »dirt«. Holding on to the moment of inspiration. Hecker's soul, his pure emotions immortalised on tape. All rational processes that before had deadened and delayed Hecker's feeling – such as arranging, determining the instrumentation, writing succinct lyrics (the lyrics on the album derive largely from a stream of consciousness emanating directly from his heart, improvised at the moment of recording) and finally the professional recording – these were eliminated. Just the essence remains: the pure emotion, the pure artistic innocence. This [quote from Hecker] »challenge to the music business« gives Hecker the musical feeling he believed was lost, brings him artistic bliss and the missing identification with his own work. And this is what we find in »I Am Nothing But Emotion, No Human Being, No Son, Never Again Son«: a Maximilian Hecker, risen from the dead, stronger, radiant – like his previously hibernating soul.
Members
* BOOKING EUROPE: Gastspielreisen Rodenberg, contact person: Ann Schönwald, phone: ++ 49(30) 832 182 222, e-mail: as@gastspielreisen.com, website: http://www.gastspielreisen.com * BOOKING EAST ASIA: see label info below * MANAGEMENT EAST ASIA: Heiko Grupe, phone: ++ 852 690 600 99, e-mail: heiko.grupe@musicdetailist.com, website: http://www.myspace.com/musicdetailist * PROMOTION GERMANY: Verstärker Promotion, contact person: Carsten Stricker, phone: ++ 49(0)30 319 880 30, e-mail: carsten@verstaerker.com, website: http://www.verstaerker.com * RADIO PROMOTION GERMANY: Pool Promotion, contact person: Tina Rodloff, e-mail: tina.rodloff@poolpromotion.com, website: http://www.poolpromotion.com/ * PROMOTION EAST ASIA: see label info below * LABEL EUROPE: Blue Soldier Records, contact person: Till Wolf, phone: ++ 49(0)30 892 060 19, e-mail: till@laserlaser.biz, website: http://www.laserlaser.biz * LABEL CHINA: Pocket Records, contact person: Cui Zhongpeng, phone: ++ 86 10 684 753 87, e-mail: yuekoudai@gmail.com, website: http://www.douban.com/artist/pocketrecords * LABEL TAIWAN: Gold Typhoon Music, contact person: Christopher Shen, phone: ++ 886 227 462 624, e-mail: christopher.shen@typhoongrp.com, website: http://www.gold-typhoon.com.tw/ * LABEL HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA: Love Da Records, contact person: Elaine Ng, phone: ++ 852 226 410 25, e-mail: elaine@love-da-records.com, website: http://www.love-da-records.com * LABEL SOUTH KOREA: Pastel Music Inc., contact person: Lee Eung Min, phone: ++ 82 2 314 229 81, e-mail: lee@pastelmusic.com, website: http://www.pastelmusic.com * PUBLISHING: it sounds/BMG Rights Management GmbH, contact person: Sabine Ganske, phone: ++ 49(0)541 961 46 11, e-mail: sabine.ganske@it-sounds.de
Influences
Melanie, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, Chris de Burgh, Queen, Nirvana, Chokebore, Oasis, Radiohead, Travis, Grandaddy, Sigur Ros, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan
Sounds Like
Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Grandaddy, Radiohead, Travis, Richard Ashcroft

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The Forsakenness Of Raging Love (live at KenFM), April 2012. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/FtSr1bYbbiw/

The Whereabouts Of Love, fan video, April 2012. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/K2omKVMmUx8/

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, from the movie »Schilf«, March 2012. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/fodTdWg3sjY/

Maximilian Hecker recording his new album, November 2011. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rvlxx9UfKWk/

Maximilian Hecker on tour in China, autumn 2011. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qQLdZ3QQC6w/

Maximilian Hecker & Pledge Music. September 2011. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ii9pauHY_iU/

Court My Eyes Alone - official video clip. Directed and produced by Ken-Tonio Yamamoto and Daniela Haitzler. June 2010. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Fqqt0KEkVto/

No One's Child - official video clip. By Nuflicks (www.nuflicks.de), March 2010. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/vOicLp2X5Z4/

Nana - official video clip. By Til Obladen/Felix de Novo Oliveira/Ismo Wolffson, February 2010. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/67ztzY1kv7s/

The Space That You're In. By Til Obladen, 2009. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/_IDko4kfmmM/

Heroin (The Velvet Underground), Radiokulturhaus, Vienna [AT], 2009-03-26. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qpCg7PNLw8A/

Maximilian Hecker Hits Rock Bottom Truth. By Natz Spetsman. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/a3CPZXrlXZk/

Samsung commercial, South Korea and China, 2007. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/yDkUkQKkdXI/

Haneul Bori commercial, South Korea, 2007. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/dUaqTES9OQY/

Dunkin' Donuts commercial, South Korea, 2008. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/RAeBu803eKQ/

Maximilian Hecker on tour in Asia. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/j2n9XzSxAHo/

困在, sung by Waa, written by Maximilian Hecker and Sodagreen singer Wu Quingfeng, May 2010. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/mX2tdc87fcM/

Miss Underwater, sung by Taiwanese pop star Faith Yang. 如果你在中国大陆，可以点击该链接观看视频: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/sZ1GKzc5xEQ/