''Anderswelt'' is the sixth album released by the German

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band

Schandmaul Schandmaul is a German medieval folk rock band from the Munich area. As well as using modern instruments such as the bass and electric guitar, the band also utilizes instruments typically used in Medieval folk songs such as the bagpipes, hurd ...

on 4 April 2008. It was recorded from October 2007 to January 2007 at Turnstyle Studio,

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, and the HOFA Studios in

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and was produced by Thomas Heimann-Trosien. The album contains 14 tracks, including an

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, "Fiddlefolkpunk". Thematically, the album focusses on creatures of mythology like

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s ("Sirenen"),

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("Wolfsmensch") and spirits (as in "Stunde des Lichts"). The track "Drei Lieder" (Three Songs) tells of a young

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who participates in a singers' competition to take revenge on the prince who once destroyed his native village and killed his only brother. "Die Königin" (The Queen) is about a bewitched woman who was once good-natured but has been turned into a dragon. The track "Anderswelt"(Other-world) deals with mysterious sightings of figures from the Other-world who were spotted near a

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shrine.

Reception

The album remained in the German Longplay Charts for fifteen weeks, peaking at #8, in the

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n charts for 3 weeks, peaking at #43 and in the

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charts for 2 weeks, peaking at #44. The Austrian webzine ''Stormbringer'' lauded the album's diversity and balance and rated it five stars out of five. The German ''Sonic Seducer'' magazine wrote that the general tone of ''Anderswelt'' was more positive and brighter than that of Schandmaul's prior album '' Mit Leib und Seele''.

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians * Matthias Richter – electric bass,

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* Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack – bagpipes, flutes, shawm, vocals * Stefan Brunner –

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, vocals * Anna Kränzlein –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

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, hurdy-gurdy, vocals * Martin Duckstein –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

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, vocals * Thomas Lindner –

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;Guest musicians * Benni Cellini (

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) -

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on "Krieger", "Königin", "Die Braut", "Augen auf!" and "Prinzessin" ;Production * Thomas Heiman-Trosien – mixing, mastering * Thomas von Kummant – title and booklet illustrations * Volker Beushausen – photography * Thomas Bürgerle – artwork

References

{{Authority control 2008 albums Schandmaul albums