The band worked with Tim Simenon aka Bomb The Bass resulting in the release of the Clear Cut-EP on Morr Music. Lali Puna did some remix work with Two Lone Swordsmen and Lowfish as well. Being the great live act they are, Lali Puna played in places as distant as Bratislava, San Francisco, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Barcelona’s Sonar festival. Most of 2001 was spent working on their second album, which finally appeared as Scary World Theory in September of that same year. Artistically as well as commercially, this album was even more successful than its predecessor. They also released a remix-7-inch for Morr Music’s „a number of small things“-label and they have been touring Germany and Europe extensively at the end of 2001. In the fall of 2002 Lali Puna went on their first US-tour and shared a van with Morr Music label mates and friends Styrofoam and Opiate.
A few months later Florian Zimmer left Lali Puna in order to focus on his main project Iso68. The new keyboarder is named Christian Heiß. In the summer of 2003, Lali Puna released their Left Handed-EP on Morr Music, which displayed a significant musical progression as Lali Puna started using electric, distorted guitars which could not be heard on earlier releases. This helped shaping a yet more diverse and dynamic sound without neglecting Lali Puna’s past regarding their fragile and beautiful electronic compositions. All the way through 2003 Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher have been busy writing new material for their third full-length album, which was recorded at the Uphon Studios and eventually has been mastered at famous Abbey Road Studios in London in December 2003. Faking The Books, as it is called, will be released in April 2004 on Morr Music, followed by an extensive European tour. Plans for the future include a remix 12-inch featuring some of Lali Puna’s most favourite artists as well as their second North America tour in fall 2004.
The story of Lali Puna is inextricably linked to that of the Morr Music label itself. The band's classic Tridecoder album was the second ever release on the imprint back in 1999 and set a new template for electronic rock music that's remained in place ever since. In parallel, Morr and Lali Puna have evolved from humble, experimental beginnings before eventually coming to represent the vanguard of modern pop.
Fronted by singer and keyboard player Valerie Trebeljahr, Lali Puna's line-up is completed by drummer Christoph Brandner (also of Tied & Tickled Trio), keyboard player Christian Heiß and Markus Acher - an artist already highly regarded for his work as part of The Notwist. Over a decade of recording together this band have continued to grow in strength, confidence and studio expertise, cuing up a triumphant return to full operational capability on Our Inventions. The album's title was in place early on, helping inspire the sonic template for what's surely Lali Puna's most sophisticated and emphatically electronic collection of work to date. More than ever these songs place the group at the cutting edge of their art, facing up to the onset of an abstract, digitised future whilst retaining a timeless sense of musical ingenuity and endeavour.
It took fellow Weilheim luminaries The Notwist until their sixth album to finally reach worldwide recognition, breaking through with 2002's Neon Golden. Now, with Our Inventions, Lali Puna seem poised to crossover in a similarly incendiary fashion. In an age when the very notion of an album seems like an outmoded conceit, Lali Puna are a band that both demand and amply reward the investment of their audience over a full-length narrative. Our Inventions is a defiantly complete listening experience - one that exudes craftsmanship and captures the band at the peak of their powers as songwriters.
December 2009
Fast Forward
Lali Puna Lyrics
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Fast forward
Alone in the dark
There's no one
Around me
By my side
When you put your hands over your ears
You don't hear me
You don't see me
It's like I've never been here
And you've never known me
They're leaving
I'm staying
Inside me
It's never been
So quiet
Never so clean
When you put your hands over your ears
You don't hear me
When you cover your eyes
You don't see me
It's like I've never been here
And you've never known me
The song "Fast Forward" by Lali Puna is a melancholic piece about feeling isolated and invisible. The opening lines of the song, "I'm going fast forward, alone in the dark, there's no one around me by my side," immediately set the tone for the rest of the piece. The singer is on a journey, moving at a rapid pace, yet they are alone and in darkness. This sense of loneliness is emphasized by the repetition of the phrase, "When you put your hands over your ears, you don't hear me. When you cover your eyes, you don't see me."
The lyrics suggest that no one is paying attention to the singer. They are unable to connect with others, and as a result, it's as if they have never existed. The line "It's like I've never been here, and you've never known me" captures this idea perfectly. The feeling of being invisible and unimportant is so overwhelming that it seems like no one in the world would be affected if they were to disappear.
Throughout the song, there is a sense that the singer is stuck in their isolation. They observe others leaving, but they themselves are trapped inside their own mind. The final lines of the song, "It's never been so quiet, never so clean," suggest that in some ways, the singer has found release in their isolation. The chaos of the world has been silenced, but this peace has come at the cost of human connection.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm going
I am moving forward
Fast forward
Moving quickly towards the future
Alone in the dark
Being isolated and in the midst of uncertainty
There's no one
Nobody is present around me
Around me
In the vicinity or in close proximity to me
By my side
Standing or supporting me
When you put your hands over your ears
Ignoring my voice and my opinions
You don't hear me
You are not listening to what I have to say
When you cover your eyes
Ignoring my presence and my existence
You don't see me
You are not acknowledging me
It's like I've never been here
As if my presence didn't matter
And you've never known me
As if I was always a stranger to you
They're leaving
People are walking away from me
I'm staying
I am choosing to stay and face my problems
Inside me
In my mind and my inner self
It's never been
This situation has never occurred before
So quiet
Peaceful and without any disturbance
Never so clean
Pure and unblemished
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: KENNETH KARLIN, CARSTEN SCHACK, MELENI SMITH, MICHEAL WARREN
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Gabriela Gonzalez
Absolutely adore the simplicity of this song---> could be taken as something negative, as if reprimanding a loved one---but then, "They’re leaving I’m staying inside me It’s never been so quiet never so clean" lovely.
Gianluca Carrarese
When you put your hands over your ears
You don't hear me
When you cover your eyes
You don't see me
It's like I've never been here
And you've never known me.
SPARKLE DAZEY
This song was on a burnt CD playlist she made for me. Funny how shit like the band and name of song come to mind after so many years... we used to show eachother the cuttiest Myspace band pages. Haha
IowaHiker
This use to be my MySpace song
Adam
heard this at Noodles & Company, love the music they play there.
Foot Ball
What did you eat there?
thomas graham
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