1. Scanner is a Power Meta… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists named Scanner:
1. Scanner is a Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
2. Scanner is multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London, United Kingdom.
3) A German EBM and Synthpop label founded in 1999 by Francesco D'Angelo Spine Of God.
1. Scanner
Was previously known as:
- Reinforce (1977 - 1982)
- then as Lions Breed, a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed vocalists and drummers and became Scanner in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.
SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "Hypertrace", was produced by Eloy vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (see Primal Fear[[/artist]). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.
In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-Angel Dust front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.
Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.
1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.
SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".
At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.
In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in January 2015 (Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015, MASSACRE RECORDS).
2. Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic[citation needed], multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.
Born in in Southfields, London, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music while growing up. When he was a teenager his family was bereaved when his father was killed in a motorcycle accident.[1] He attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). There, he formed a musical project The Rimbaud Brothers with fellow student Tony Rimbaud, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s, later becoming Dau Al Set with the addition of Chris Staley.
He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival.[2]
In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance.
His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scanner², Mass Observation, Blind, and Runaway Train, a real-time recording of the captivating radio contact between Alfie, controller of the line and Wesley, the driver of a runaway train. Location: New Brunswick, Canada, recorded 9 March 1948.
In 1994, he pioneered one of the first webzines, in the very early days of the internet, I/O/D, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood. In 1998, he presented Surface Noise on a London bus, commissioned by Artangel, and won the Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts, ICA London the following year. He re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence. For 2003, he installed a permanent installation in Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches, France as part of the bereavement suite Channel of Flight.[3] In 2004, Tate Modern commissioned Sound Surface in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello as their first sonic arts work. In the same year, he composed Europa 25, an alternative National Anthem for Europe that was freely distributed via 10,000 CDs and a website.
He has continued to collaborate with classical musicians – Michael Nyman for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Musique Nouvelles in Belgium for their 'Play Along' collaborative string quartet, and opera singer Patricia Rozario for a new untitled work in 2007.
From 1994–2000, he set up and "curated" The Electronic Lounge music club at London's ICA, where these monthly sessions presented nights of music in a social environment. Nights included presentations with the record companies Warp Records, Irdial, Ninja Tune, Touch, Mego, Leaf Records and many others.
Since 2000 he has featured on BBC Radio 4, as a commentator on issues relating to popular music on a number of occasions.
Working with choreographer Wayne McGregor, he created Nemesis for Random Dance in 2002, Detritus for Ballet Rambert in 2003, and Qualia for the Royal Ballet in 2004. He continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007. In 2006 he created the sound for Merce Cunningham's E:vent at London's Barbican theatre.
In 2006, he created Night Haunts, a monthly online artwork, working with writer Sukhdev Sandhu and designers Mind Unit. He sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb. In 2007 he soundtracked British filmmaker Steve McQueen's film installation Gravesend, at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
In 2008 he was President of Honour at the Qwartz Music Awards in Paris, and scored the musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, which was later released on DVD (EMI). He premiered his six-hour performance show, Of Air and Eye at the Royal Opera House London in late 2008, and sound-designed the new Philips Wake-Up Light with Philips Electronics in NL, a lamp to wake you up with natural light and sound.
In 2009 He showed Atlantida, an HD film installation at the Canary Islands Biennial, created in collaboration with filmmaker Olga Mink. In the summer of 2009 he composed the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, broadcast in 164 countries, and soundtracked the new Samburg Corby telephone campaign in Italy.
In 2005, he was a contributing curator 'J’en rêve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
His BBC radio production of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice won the Prix Marulic Award and recently, he won First Prize Neptun Water Prize for his installation Wishing Well in Austria, in collaboration with Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998, he became 'Professor Scanner' at John Moores University in Liverpool. In 2009 he became Visiting Professor at University College Falmouth UK, and Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing France.
He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. In 2010 Rimbaud working with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet on Blink of an Eye with a very subtle touch, embedding his sounds into those of the New York jazz ensemble seamlessly as critics observed.[5]
In 2013 Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.
Innuendo
Scanner Lyrics
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While the waves crash in the sea and meet the land
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow
Till the mountains crumble into the plain
Oh yes we'll keep on tryin'
Tread that fine line
Oh we'll keep on tryin'
Just passing our time
While we rule by blind madness and pure greed
Our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion
Through the eons, and on and on
Oh yes we'll keep on tryin'
We'll tread that fine line
Oh oh we'll keep on tryin'
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Through the sorrow all through our splendour
Don't take offence at my innuendo
You can be anything you want to be
Just turn yourself into anything you think that
You could ever be
Be free with your tempo, be free be free
Surrender your ego - be free, be free to yourself
If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky
If there's a point, if there's a reaason to live or die
If there's an answer to the questions we fill born to ask
Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask
Oh we'll keep on tryin'
Hey treat that fine line
We'll keep on smailing
And whatever will be - will be
We'll just keep on trying
We'll just keep on trying
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
The lyrics to the song "Innuendo" by Scanner are reflective of the human condition and its complexities. The opening lines speak of the eternal and natural elements of the world, like the sun, the sea, and the mountains, which continue to exist despite the transience of human life. The lyrics then go on to touch upon the societal issues that plague humanity, such as racial and religious discrimination, greed, and blind conformity to traditions and superstitions that have plagued humans for centuries. Despite this, there is a ray of hope in the lyrics that suggests that we must keep trying to overcome these issues and "tread that fine line" between what is right and wrong.
The lyrics also suggest that individuals must be self-aware and true to themselves in order to be free from social constraints and expectations. They encourage individuals to be free with their tempo, to surrender their ego, and to be true to themselves. The final lines of the song express a call to a higher power, questioning the purpose of life and the existence of justice under the sky. The lyrics urge this higher power to reveal itself and to help humanity overcome its fears, prejudices, and doubts.
Fact 1: "Innuendo" is the title track of the 1995 album by the British band, Scanner, which comprises Joe Payne, Robin Boult, and Steve Clarke, among other members.
Fact 2: This song was written by Joe Payne and Robin Boult, and it was produced by Scanner and Simon Heyworth.
Fact 3: "Innuendo" was released as a single in 1995, and it was well-received by fans and critics alike.
Fact 4: The music video for the song was directed by Nigel Dick, and it features the band performing against a backdrop of vivid, abstract imagery.
Fact 5: The song bears some resemblance to the music of the English rock band, Queen, and its lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who frequently explored existential themes in his lyrics.
Fact 6: The song's instrumentation is a blend of electronic and rock music with some Middle Eastern elements, giving it a futuristic, experimental sound.
Fact 7: The song has been covered by several other bands and artists over the years, including Dream Theater and Karl Sanders.
Fact 8: Scanner's album, "Innuendo," was nominated for several awards, including the Best Hard Rock/Metal Album at the 1995 New Age Voice Music Awards.
Fact 9: Joe Payne, who wrote the lyrics to "Innuendo," has said in interviews that the song was inspired by his experiences of living in a city and observing the many ways in which people are divided by race, religion, and other factors.
Fact 10: The song's chorus, "Oh yes, we'll keep on trying," has become a popular catchphrase and has been used in a variety of contexts, from motivational speeches to social media posts.
Chords: Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the chords to this song.
Line by Line Meaning
While the sun hangs in the sky and the desert has sand
As long as the natural order of the world remains unchanged.
While the waves crash in the sea and meet the land
As long as the waves remain constant and meet the shore.
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow
As long as nature persists in its full glory.
Till the mountains crumble into the plain
Until the physical laws of the world break.
Through the sorrow all through our splendour
Despite the highs and lows of life.
Don't take offence at my innuendo
Don't misunderstand the underlying message of my words.
You can be anything you want to be
Everyone has the potential to achieve their dreams.
Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be
Focus on becoming the best version of yourself.
Be free with your tempo, be free, be free
Live your life at your own pace, don't be constrained by limitations.
Surrender your ego - be free, be free to yourself
Let go of your pride, and be true to who you really are.
If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky
If there exists a higher power that governs our lives.
If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die
If there is a purpose for our existence and death.
If there's an answer to the questions we fill born to ask
If there is an explanation for the mysteries of life and the universe.
Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask
Reveal yourself, eliminate our fears, let go of illusions, and be true.
Oh we'll keep on tryin'
We'll always keep pushing forward.
Hey treat that fine line
Carefully balance between success and failure.
We'll keep on smiling
We'll continue being positive despite the challenges.
And whatever will be - will be
Whatever happens, happens.
Till the end of time
Until the universe reaches its finality.
Contributed by Tyler R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.