Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution (album)

Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution
Studio album by Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution
Released 20 April 2012
Recorded November 2011 - January 2012
Genre rock, pop, indie
Length 51:07
Label Timezone
Producer Robby Maria & Karl-Heinz Mittenzwei

Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution is the only studio album of the former Berlin based band Robby Maria & The Silent Revolution around singer-songwriter Robby Maria. It was released on 20 April 2012.[1][2]

Origin

The Album was written by Robby Maria and drummer Anni Müller and recorded with Ben Hunt on electric guitar and Simon Birkholz on bass during Winter 2010/2011 in various studios all over Berlin and Nicosia.[3] The tracks "9o1 Independence", "Cars & Highways", "Could've Been" und "Down By The Water", which Maria originally wrote with songwriter Stephan Metzner for the Poetry-Album 9o1 Independence on the Island of Cyprus were included as bonus tracks.[4][5]

Track listing

all music composed by Robby Maria, except track 11-14 by Stephan Metzner. All lyrics by Robby Maria.

  1. The Spanish House – 1:50
  2. Immigrants – 2:22
  3. 22nd Century Girl – 4:00
  4. Build Me A Woman – 3:44
  5. Nostradamus' Years – 3:12
  6. Break The Silence – 3:30
  7. Ship To Shore (Organ Version) – 2:43
  8. Like A Zombie – 3:57
  9. Surprise – 3:17
  10. Satellite City – 6:20
  11. 9o1 Independence – 2:54
  12. Cars & Highways – 5:18
  13. Could've Been – 4:43
  14. Down By The Water – 3:14

Personnel

Album Ratings

Marcel Peteroff wrote:"... i cannot deny an analogy to the early David Bowie plus an enormous originality that is hard to judge".[6] Blackbirds TV wrote"...extremely charismatic!"[7]

References

  1. Catalogue of the German National Library https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm;jsessionid=D85A6609B36B04EED6CE79392ADE706C.prod-worker1?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=Woe%3D1025172760%26any&currentPosition=1
  2. Timezone Catalogue Number TZ722 http://www.timezone-records.com/kuenstler/details/robby-maria/
  3. MusicBrainz http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/79c339b7-959a-40be-975d-03665049746f
  4. JPC http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Robby-Maria-The-Silent-Revolution-Robby-Maria-The-Silent-Revolution/hnum/4917487
  5. Discogs http://www.discogs.com/Robby-Maria-The-Silent-Revolution-Robby-Maria-The-Silent-Revolution/release/5787370
  6. Marcel Peteroff http://www.rezensator.de/mariarobby_andthesilentrevolution.htm
  7. Blackbirds TV http://blackbirds.tv/?p=5108


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