''Carefully Selected Moments'' is a compilation album by Austrian art and theory group monochrom that was released on 10 June 2008 in Austria. The album was intended to be a best-of collection of the group's musical output. The album is being distributed by Trost Records.

Background

To celebrate monochrom's 15th anniversary, the members decided to release a CD containing a variety of songs the group had previously created for their art projects, live shows and theater performances. Part of the concept was to invite musicians and music formations to re-record or re-mix some of monochrom's tracks. Most of the vocal performances are by members of monochrom, e.g.

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and Evelyn Fürlinger. The songs range from genres like country and

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to club music and

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. The lyrics, partially in German and English, are political and deal with various controversial issues, like

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, migration, critique of capitalism and

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. The album was financially supported by ''Österreichischer Musikfonds'' and ''SKE (austro mechana)''. ;Song examples * The tracks ''Let's Network It Out (Flat Nashville Hierarchy Version)'' and ''Tonki Gebauer: Song (Excerpt)'' were originally recorded as part of the

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project. * ''Waun i schiaß'' and ''Could It Be'' were originally created for monochrom's stage musical ''Udo 77'', but re-recorded in a studio. * The song ''Der Oxo Raster. An Electronical Palimpsest'' is a cover version of the song "Oxo la terre" by

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Track listing

Reception

The CD has been discussed and analyzed in music magazines and academic publications."Carefully Selected Moments"
review in: Trust (print issue, August 2008)

External links

Official project pageCD download
on the Internet Archive

References

{{reflist Monochrom 2008 greatest hits albums