When Axel Wolph started for his musical career about a decade ago, he naturally didn‘t know where his journey might take him one day. Now, with his brand-new album „The Weekend Starts On Wednesday“, the 30-year-old singer, songwriter and music producer is getting an essential step closer to his musical vision. He even calls it an arrival.

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Artist: Axel Wolph
Album: The Weekend Starts On Wednesday
Label: United Indies
Playtime: 45:21 min
Genre: Pop
URL: http://www.axelwolph.com
Rip date: 2009-06-06
Street date: 2009-06-10
Size: 60.30 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 175 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

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The Weekend Starts On Wednesday


But, let‘s start with a brief retrospective. At the early age of 16 his music
(then as the leadsinger and head of his teenage-grunge-rockband „Mindcure“)
was gaining airplay not only on radio but also on music television such as
MTV and VIVA. In the year 2000 his solo-debut „Audible.Portrait.One“
(Solarplexx Music) was released, six years later „Simplicity Of Mankind“
(monkey./pine 550/UMPG), the first and only album of his adult pop
band-project „Ordinary World“ was brought to the market, for the first time
not only in his home country of Austria and Germany, but also in the USA. In
2008 he came back as a solo-artist with his critically acclaimed „Wedding
Songs“ (United Indies/UMPG) which gained rotation on more than 90 (!) radio
stations on the US Westcoast.

Here today, in the year of 2009, it seems that he has got the ball rolling.
On March 24th his all acoustic „bonfire music“ album „Poet With A Punk‘s
Heart“ (United Indies/UMPG) was released and again gained great reviews and
rotation on US radio stations. His acoustic version of Robert Palmer‘s 80s
synthie-pop classic „Johnny & Mary“ turned out as a secret hit for numerous
people around the globe.

Since 2005 the born Austrian is swinging back and forth between his family
home Vienna and his musical home Los Angeles. „I am taken with California“,
he admits and „the longest, most interesting and beautiful journey leads to
yourself. Sometimes it even takes long distances“, he adds with a typical
ironic smile in his face.

The brand-new songs on „The Weekend Starts On Wednesday“ are dealing with
love, desire, hope, lust for life, wanderlust and homesickness and were all
written in California. They were recorded in his own studio back home in
Vienna together with his longtime musical companion Mario Lackner who is
sharing his passion for music and California and has been living in the City
Of Angels since 2005. All instruments (except drums) were as usual played by
Axel. In October 2008 the songs were mixed by Mike Harrison and Axel Wolph at
Rhythmmik Studio, Los Angeles, in an old school all analog way on Herb
Alpert‘s `72 made API console.

The result and new „baby“ stands for a home coming mixture of the passionate
musician‘s basic influences: Singer/Songwriter meets Grunge meets Blues. The
listener will be taken away by a catchy and inviting opener called „Deeply
Mad (About You)“, further stops on this „rollercoaster ride“ („Deeply Mad
(About You)“) are the wondering about the nighttime sleeping places of birds
and sharks („Where Do The Birds Go At Night?“), a „Traffic Jam On Hoover
Dam“, a crystal clear lovesong („Three More Words“), a touching father‘s day
song („Moments Like These“), a desire-drenched blues („T(w)onight“), a
homesickness song straight out of San Francisco („Someone I Know (Lonesome In
Frisco)“), a grungy love-anthem („This One Is For You“), a biting power pop
song about Hollywood („Life Ain‘t Like Hollywood“) and finally a touching
„Lullaby For Insomniacs“.

„I always wanted to move to New York City, but I finally landed in Vienna and
Los Angeles“, „the visionary with lots of sentience“, „this time better
Kravitz“ and „fresh Dylan“ (all media quotes), the fan of aged instruments
and large plastic shades honestly realizes. „Why? I don‘t know, maybe to make
a record like this one one day. Every single record so far has been a
snap-shot of my life, but this one is an arrival and a useful fundament for
my future babies“.

In times of global crisis, panic and systematic fear-making, an album with
the title „The Weekend Starts On Wednesday“ appears like a blindly optimistic
antithesis. Axel Wolph‘s music is a melodic and heart-driven release from our
daily lives, it‘s a sensitive look over the ocean through an open car window,
a pale blue and bright orange emergency exit that leads us to the well-known
weekend feeling which in future starts on Wednesday.

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01. Deeply Mad (About You) ( 4:09)
02. Where Do The Birds Go At Night ( 3:45)
03. Traffic Jam (On Hoover Dam) ( 3:43)
04. Three More Words ( 3:47)
05. Moments Like These ( 3:37)
06. T(w)onight ( 5:02)
07. Someone I Know (Lonesome in Frisco) ( 5:45)
08. This One Is For You ( 5:11)
09. Life Ain't Like Hollywood ( 3:06)
10. Lullaby For Insomniacs ( 3:56)
11. Miss Invisible ( 3:20)

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