Woodkid: The Golden Age Die Version auf Vinyl 2LP in Standard- Auflage. Diese besondere Auflage wurde veröffentlicht in Europa im Verlag Green United Music In Zusammenarbeit mit Island Records und Universal Music Group am 22. März 2013.

In the world of fashion and film, Yoann Lemoine has recently made a name for himself as a well-known producer of many music videos (including Yelle, The Shoes, Moby, Katy Perry and Lana Del Rey) and various commercials. Out of nowhere, a music video called "Iron" appeared. Closely related to the pseudonym "Woodkid", the video has reached more than 18 million clicks on YouTube. The song Run Boy Run was used in various O2 commercials and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video. Woodkid's debut album "The Golden Age" is out now. Woodkid isn't experiencing just any feelings. It's about the storm and confusion of emotions. It's about love, life and death. The pursuit of his own identity. It's about the basic crises of adolescence. Woodkid's lyrics are both an expression of the experience of crisis and a strategy for overcoming it. Woodkid's poetics follows Rainer Maria Rilke and his multi-layered logic, in which losses are seen as gains, defeats as victories and damages as honours. For Woodkid, there is no getting around the orchestra as a sounding board. At the end of each song on "The Golden Age" the listener is left with a parphor-like image that is always richly colored musically and lyrically, and never black and white. His songs have the accessibility of pop songs that work with guitar, piano and candlelit singing. At the same time, however, each simple note explodes into a grandiose sonic firework of symphonic-epic sounds. Forget all the old heroes. There's a new one: Woodkid. With the soulful passion with which he approaches it, this is no temporary heroism. No, "The Golden Age" is an album for the ages. "Making music videos took on a different meaning for me," Woodkid explains, "It was kind of the pull that drew me into the art form. And in the end, music creates new and different worlds." In March 2011, Woodkid released his first EP, Iron. Someone with a creative eye like Woodkid not only gets a video made, but has to make it himself. It's been on the net for barely six months and has already captivated more than 25 million viewers. There is no end to this fascination. Part of the reason is that the world's leading game studio, Ubisoft, is using the sounds of "Iron" as the soundtrack to the campaign for the release of the box office hit "Assassin's Creed: Revelation" in the fall of 2011. That's encouraged them. In May 2012, Woodkid released a second single called "Run Boy Run". The accompanying video seamlessly follows the sequences of the song "Iron". It's so seamless that the new campaign for Assassin's Creed 3, which just launched worldwide, uses it again. But the professional fan base for "Run Boy Run" is growing. Nike decided to use the Woodkids cues for the current English campaign not only on TV, but also in cinema and online. There is no better proof of Woodkid's statement "music does create new and different worlds". A wildly lively affair, Woodkid lets the tones leap off the screen for good and with radical directness. And with power. In doing so, it embarks on a wild affair with live scenes. So passionately that last September, for the first time, he transformed the traditional Parisian theatre "Le Grand Rex" into an oasis of intoxication with a 30-piece orchestra and in front of an audience of nearly 3,000. "Even though I didn't make the music myself, it played a big part in my videos," says Woodkid, "so when I started making my own music, it had to be as big as a skyscraper. Pictures can do that. A big orchestra can do that too, which is my answer to that question." It's exactly the right thing to do, for whether the multitude of feelings that are stirred in a person could be better expressed by matching them to the various instruments of an orchestra. It has a long tradition. Just think of Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale 'Peter and the Wolf'. Each character in the story is assigned an instrument. Woodkid takes a similar approach. It takes feelings and matches them to instruments. "That was the most obvious way for me to sound out the universe in the Cinemascope format," Woodkid continues. His sounds become as big as his images. "Take three chords played in a row and you can illustrate a feeling," he continues, "and I feel that the chord just played can provoke the next one and so on. I can't do anything about it. The sounds go through my head and orchestrate the individual pieces very precisely. I can hear every instrument. The strings, for example, are the harmonic foundation of the pieces; they are not just any accompaniment, but act at the center of the pieces. Then I hear the woodwinds, which add incredible power to the melodic arcs, and the kettledrums, which drive the piece forward." And that soundscape has now been created on the complete album "The Golden Age" in all its beauty and grandeur. The ground between youth and adulthood It's not just any feelings that Woodkid takes on. It's about the storm and turmoil of emotions. "It's about a period of transition from adolescence to adulthood, to a confusing hyperreality," Woodkid says, "I'm talking about the tangible change of the body, about first sexuality, about not wanting to be what the norm demands, for example the lyrics in 'Run Boy Run' are 'Run Boy Run'/This world is not made for you'." It's about love, life and death. Trying to find your own identity. The basic crises of growing up. "I always take the role of a participating observer in the process," Woodkid emphasizes, "never the role of an angry or enraged observer, maybe a critical one." Woodkid's texts are both an expression of the experience of crisis and a strategy for overcoming it. Woodkid's poetics follows Rainer Maria Rilke and his multi-layered logic in which losses are seen as gains, defeats as victories, and damages as honors. In the world of fashion and film, Yoann Lemoine has recently made a name for himself as a well-known producer of numerous music videos (including Yelle, The Shoes, Moby, Katy Perry and Lana Del Rey) and various commercials. Out of nowhere, a music video called "Iron" appeared. Closely related to the pseudonym "Woodkid", the video has reached more than 18 million clicks on YouTube. The song Run Boy Run was used in various O2 commercials and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video. Woodkid's debut album "The Golden Age" is out now. Woodkid isn't experiencing just any feelings. It's about the storm and confusion of emotions. It's about love, life and death. It's about trying to find your own identity. It's about the basic crises of growing up. Woodkid's lyrics are both an expression of the experience of crisis and a strategy for overcoming it. Woodkid's poetics follows Rainer Maria Rilke and his multi-layered logic, in which losses are seen as gains, defeats as victories and damages as honours. Forget all the old heroes. There's a new one: Woodkid. With the spirited passion with which he competes, this is no temporary heroism. No, "The Golden Age" is an album for the ages. "Ballads that turn pain into comfort and beauty into music. If this is what the Golden Age is really supposed to sound like, it can't start soon enough." (musikexpress, April 2013) "This sonic firework, set in a still pop-oriented songwriting, coalesces into a nearly fifty-minute concert pop opus that can be spent hours and hours with, and there's always something new to discover." (Audio, June 2013)

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