note: this is going to be a very very long entry because the whole album just pulled a heartstring of mine and is really good. I tried to make it short and simple but still words just spilled out uncontrollably. this is THE short version. the draft is much longer.
Actually, the full name for this album is I Am Nothing But Emotion, No Human Being, No Son, Never Again Son by Maximilian Hecker. A German singer-songwriter. This is his 7th album so far, released last month in German first then follow up by international released.
If you did listened to his previous works and you think that this album is going to be the same then you have to scrap that. I guess what happens was that his music matured over the years. His music used to be ‘popky’. But this album is raw, depth and real. Perhaps, this is the most ‘honest’ album he ever made. Close to his heart. Plus, I think he try to minimize the need to ‘smoothen’ the songs using the computer. Like how all the usual songs that being ‘processed’ to make the songs sound much better but it compromised the emotion of the songs. So I quote the starting track of this album, this album basically ‘pukes emotion’.
Piano played an important role in this album and when Maximilian Hecker sings boy that was good. Deliciously good. Peacefully melodious and melancholy. A beautiful kind of sorrow.
The beginning of the album starts off with Blue Soldier Night. It was not a song actually; it was a recording of a woman in a static voice. No emotion at all, speaking in a flat monotone. I can’t help but to think these 2.01mins of recording is actually a summarising of the album. The story that she told, you actually can find the resemblance in the lyrics of all the song in this album and also the way the tracks being numbered.
Holy Dungeon is the second track and it sounded so good that it almost sound like poetry to me. The lyric and the music are like ripples of emotion.
Your blackened lung, your weakened tongue, your weary eyes, your secret lies
Your one-way street, your whitened sheet, your gloomy thoughts, your cranky gods
Your angel sighs, your painful highs, your tortured heart, your backward art
Your twisted ways, your ancient face, your perfumed words, your crying birds
My favourite part ought to be from seventh track to track ten. Start from Glaslight and end with Your Kingdom the tenth track. Actually both tracks are the same but in Your Kingdom he did changed the lyric and the beginning of the music into music-box like. You know those kind of ‘ding-ding-ding’ sounds. Like how those movies shows when one open the music box and the memories start to fall into place again.
Ok, basically the whole tracks in the album are some sort of inter-related. Is like a story, that’s why I said Blue Soldier Night is like a summary. So, to cut the story short in Glaslights the story actually continues from the previous few tracks telling us that he wants to be with her. He loves her. He asks her don’t deceive him in the previous track, Court My Eyes Alone…
But don’t you leave me
And don’t deceive me
I’m coming out to call and doubt my way
Don’t you leave me
Don’t deceive me
I’m coming out my way
In Glaslights he told her he will always be there for her…
I belong there in your Glaslights
I’ll be strong there in you
However, in the eighth track Messed-up Girl she cheated on him. He asked her what the other guy has that he doesn't. Why she will keep fall for others but not him? He still loves her but his love for her is fading…
Well, I can’t be your sun
But I’ll be your moon
Brightening your night but fading too soon
Brightening your path with my borrowed light, oh my love
And eventually in the ninth track No One’s Child they part away. He wants to be free. To find his happiness, to find his sunshine so he told her is alright…
I believe to be free
I will go my way
Sunshine flows
And winter grows
But in Your Kingdom, like I said before perhaps he misses her and he ‘open up’ his memories, thus the ‘music-box’ likes sound. All his got was just memories…forever locked, frozen.
I belong there in your kingdom
Fallen long time ago
I’ll be strong there in your kingdom
Frozen under deep snow
As the story goes by track by track, he misses her still and believe that eventually she will come back to him. In the last track, Lonely in Gold the persona finally gets what he wishes for…
Lonely in gold
Cause I saw your soul
And I don’t need the way you touched my heart
And you’ll come home again
You’ll come home again
You’ll come home again underneath the stars
And now you’re here with me, eventually
And now the time has come
Overall there are 14-tracks in this album. The story ends on track 13th, the 14th track is a bonus track which is a piano version of Nana.
The verdict this album offered a helluva experience of listening to music. Try to find all the lyrics and paste it in the MS.Word one after another or if you got itunes just listen to the songs track by track while reading the lyrics. Don’t shuffle it. Then only you will realize the tracks were all connected. I’m giving it 5 out of 5.
You can stream the album at his myspace.
Nana by Maximilian Hecker
p/s: I think this is most probably the last post that I will upload the album for download. Since, you guys actually can easily google it. Or in future I probably will only upload those albums that I deem are really good or hard to find.
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