Rise and Fall Fools Garden

• 1 Prelude 00:58
• 2 I Burn 04:22
• 3 New World 02:45
• 4 Save the World Tomorrow 03:28
• 5 High Again 05:03
• 6 Boys 03:14
• 7 Marie Marie 03:43
• 8 Boomtown 04:17
• 9 Course of Ages 04:39
• 10 Shame 03:17
• 11 Still Running 05:31
• 12 All We Are 03:26
• 13 Embrace 04:46
• 14 Rise and Fall 06:56
• Total Runtime 56:25

Info for Rise and Fall

On their tenth studio album, the 1991 originating band Fools Garden, presents themselves as very mature and versatile. Their current album Rise and Fall offers a variety of songs, which not only show themselves very independently, but also maintain classic-timeless qualities in composition, interpretation and arrangement. This time we let a very special discipline prevail in writing the songs, says singer Peter Freudenthaler. A song could not be set aside until it was fully complete in its structure, so that it could later be recorded in our own studio. It was an audibly effective as well as creative work process with impressive results!! The 14 melodious titles cover a wide range of styles. This can be seen in titles such as, the opulently arranged mid-tempo opus I Burn (reminiscent due to the falsetto chorus of a-ha or Coldplay), or there is the acoustic ballad Marie Marie, or the atmospheric, minimalist All We Are, which Freudenthaler dedicated to his son. And with the electronic vibe of Still Running, Fools Garden taps into new terrain! The counterpoints that make this musical diary a whole and share a hint of melancholy, on the in excellent, transparent-dynamic sound quality recorded album, are the catchy acoustic guitar-supported High Again and the sing along tracks Shame and Save the World Tomorrow. And since they make their music on the basis of tried and true values, it is not surprising that in the up-tempo rocker Boys, they talk about the conformity of songs on the radio: The radio is playing the same songs all the time, they stick in the rotation, send shivers down my spine. I don't feel connected. If the monotony of the airwaves leaves you cold or is even a bore, Fools Garden is a diverse alternative with their new Album Rise and Fall.

Peter Freudenthaler, vocals
Volker Hinkel, guitar
Dirk Bluemlein, bass
Claus Mueller, drums

Fools Garden
When Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel founded their Fools Garden in the German town Pforzheim in 1991, they did not suspect that their musical plants would be world-famous a few years later. They attained first national attention with their song "Wild Days", which was used in an advertising spot for "C&A".

But the real wild days began with "Lemon Tree". The "Lemon Tree from the Black Forest" has fascinated the whole world since 1995. The song was translated into over 40 languages and achieved a sales quota of over six million units.

With "Lemon Tree" the band Fools Garden grew up to be one of the "Big Ones" in the world wide music business. Since then Fools Garden has played concerts around the whole world. In May 2005 they played their biggest concert until now in Kalingrad (Russia) in front of over 100.000 spectators.

Fools Garden has always made a point of leading their career on their own. All Fools Garden songs are own-written and since 2003 they have also run their own label. With "Lemonade Music" Fools Garden became independent of calendars and expectations of others. Since 2003 they also have new band members on board. The first album of the new band "(Are You Ready For) The Real Life" was released in 2005. For many fans and critics it is the best Fools Garden album.

So far Fools Garden published six albums, which contain many international radio hits. While songs like "Wild Days", "Suzy", "It Can Happen", "Probably" or "Why did she go" jumped into the German charts, tracks like "Closer", "Dreaming" and "Does anybody know" became popular in Russia.

In spite of all the success Fools Garden has always kept the direct contact to their fans in the whole world. In the World-Wide-Web the band is present in all large communities like MySpace. The band writes newsletters and even offers its own podcast, in which the bandleaders Peter Freudenthaler and Volker Hinkel regularly report from their studio in Pforzheim.

This album contains no booklet.