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词条 Tom Liwa
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  1. Life and career

  2. Discography

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Tom Liwa
|image = Tom liwa.JPG
|caption = Performing at Zeche Zollverein in 2007.
|background = solo_singer
|birth_name = Thomas Greiner
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|10|25}}
|birth_place =Duisburg, Germany
|Influence= "Hejira" von Jonie Mitchell
|instrument = Vocals, guitar
|genre = rock
|occupation = Singer-songwriter
|years_active = 1985 – present
|label = Glitterhouse, Ludwig (Indigo), Normal (Indigo), Scratch'N' (Indigo), Moll (EFA), V2 (Universal), Rough Trade
|associated_acts = Flowerpornoes, Tim Isfort Orchester, Klee
|website = Tom Liwa's website
Flowerpornoes website
}}Tom Liwa (born Thomas Greiner, October 25, 1961) is a German singer-songwriter who has been performing as a solo artist in addition to being a founding member and frontman of the band Flowerpornoes. While his artistic solo output long went unnoticed by German mainstream news sources and radio stations, he was recognised early on for his work with the band.[1] In recent years, he has been receiving increased attention due both to a steady fan-base[2] and various collaborations and contributions, e.g. to Klee's 2006 album Zwischen Himmel und Erde.[3] Liwa has cited Joni Mitchell's Hejira as one of his favourite albums and as a major musical influence, and has named Neil Young as an early idol.[4][5]

Tom Liwa is married to former fellow Flowerpornoes member Alexandra Gilles Videla, the couple has three children.

Life and career

Flowerpornoes 1

In 1986, Tom Liwa was a founding member and became frontman of the band, Flowerpornoes, in his native Duisburg.

The four albums released during this period mainly featured English lyrics. Liwa has stated that he had in fact already begun writing German lyrics but that at the time German songtexts were considered "unhip". Although his English texts had received praise in music magazines, the later decision to begin recording songs in German rather than English was made in a conscious effort to address what Liwa perceived as a failure to communicate the deeper meanings in his lyrics to an audience beyond music critics.[4]

After unfruitful attempts to score any major popular success and with mounting tensions between the band members and differing artistic visions, the Flowerpornoes disbanded shortly after the release of the 1990 album, As Trivial As Life And Death. Subsequent bids for a contract from a major record label failed, to Liwa's retrospective relief.[6]

After the breakup, Tom Liwa toured with Blumfeld on their first tour. Other than that, he played only very minor gigs during the time. In his own retrospect account, he states that he considered his career finished at that point.[6]

Flowerpornoes 2

The Flowerpornoes project was revived in 1993, culminating in the release of Mamas Pfirsiche (Für schlechte Zeiten). Two more albums followed, 1994's Red' nicht von Straßen, nicht von Zügen and Ich & Ich in 1996, before the band members parted ways again.

From 1995 to 1997, Liwa also contributed to the eponymous first album by the Tim Isfort Orchester project alongside Blixa Bargeld, Eva Kurowski, Katharina Thalbach and others.[7][8]

Solo career

After the second breakup of the Flowerpornoes, Tom Liwa began work on his first solo album. Due to participation in a number of other projects, it took four years to complete and publish St. Amour in 2000. The earlier Voeding, released in 1998, was a collection of songs released as mailorder only. The final track of St. Amour is a non-musical piece called "Wir haben die Musik" ("we have the music"), spoken by Christian Brückner, whose voice is well known throughout Germany as the dubbing voice for Robert De Niro and other actors.[2][9][10] Also during the time, Liwa featured on Kevin Coyne's Knocking On Your Brain, published in 1997.[11]

More solo albums followed since then, 2004's Dudajim being the latest of those that have not been published as mailorder only.

Flowerpornoes 3

On July 25, 2005, the Flowerpornoes performed together for the first time since the 1996 breakup. The occasion was a concert in Cologne, organised as part of the campaign "nrw retten, taz abonnieren" ("save NRW, subscribe to taz") by newspaper die tageszeitung's North Rhine-Westphalia edition, which at the time was struggling financially.[12]

In 2007, after a hiatus of more than ten years, a new Flowerpornoes album was released, Wie oft musst du vor die Wand laufen bis der Himmel sich auftut? The album has received considerably greater mainstream attention than any prior work of Tom Liwa.[13][14][15][16]

One of the songs on the album is called "Österreich", an allusion to the band's website being located within the Austrian top-level domain .at because the German top-level domain URL (flowerpornoes.de) is registered by someone not related to the band in any form.[17]

Discography

Year Album name Project Label
1987 Make Up Flowerpornoes Scratch'N'
1988 Stardust Kiddies Flowerpornoes Scratch'N'
1989 Pumpkin Tide Flowerpornoes Scratch'N'
1990 As Trivial As Life And Death Flowerpornoes Scratch'N'
1993 Mamas Pfirsiche (Für schlechte Zeiten) Flowerpornoes Moll
1994 Red' nicht von Straßen, nicht von Zügen Flowerpornoes Moll
1996 Ich & Ich Flowerpornoes Moll
1998 Voeding solo Glitterhouse
2000 St. Amour solo Moll
2001 Evolution Blues solo Normal
2001 Staefa CH solo Glitterhouse
2002 Lopnor with Florian Glässing Normal
2002 Two Originals of Tom Liwa (double album with Ich reite ein Pferd auf dem sonst nur Frauen reiten und Nostalgia No Existe) solo Normal
2004 Dudajim solo Normal
2005 Glauberg/California solo Glitterhouse
2005 Ich Könnte Mir Ein Fahrrad Leihen with Werner Muth Ludwig
2007 Wie oft musst du vor die Wand laufen bis der Himmel sich auftut? Flowerpornoes V2/Rough Trade
2012 Ich Liebe Menschen Wie Ihr Flowerpornoes Gim Records/Soulfood
Other featured contributions
  • He featured as an extra, portraying a musician in the 1999 film Pola X.[18]
  • The song Julianastraat from the 2000 album, St. Amour, is featured on the soundtrack for the film The Edukators.[19]
  • Among other prominent German-language authors, Tom Liwa contributed to an anthology called texttourimus (the title being a pun on sex tourism). The entire revenue generated by the volume, published in November 2005 in collaboration with UNICEF, was donated to a charitable organisation.[20]

References

1. ^{{cite web | last = Hoff | first = Hans | title = Stiller Tröster mit Gitarre | publisher = Die Welt | date = 2005-04-10 | url = https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article126509/Stiller_Troester_mit_Gitarre.html | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
2. ^{{cite web |last=Brüggemeyer |first=Maik |title=Der Wim Wenders unter den Troubadouren |publisher=Rolling Stone.de |url=http://www.wagenmeister.ch/neu/artist_info.php?ArtistID=337 |accessdate=2008-02-14 |language=de |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004826/http://www.wagenmeister.ch/neu/artist_info.php?ArtistID=337 |archivedate=2011-07-07 |df= }}
3. ^{{cite web | last = Brunster-Introzzi | first = Nina | title = Deutschpopper Klee: Ihre kaum hörbare Stimme singt von Liebe | publisher = Westdeutsche Zeitung | date = 2007-03-05 | url = http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=148434 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
4. ^{{cite web |last = Neumann |first = Fiete & Arne |title = Das Leben als Tom Liwa-Song (interview) |publisher = musicmagnet.de |url = http://www.musicmagnet.de/magazin/specials13.html |accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language = de |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080619080411/http://www.musicmagnet.de/magazin/specials13.html |archivedate = 2008-06-19 |df = }}
5. ^{{cite web |last = Liwa |first = Tom |title = über Joni Mitchells HEJIRA - eine autobiografische Plattenkritik |publisher = Superstar magazine |url = http://www.tomliwa.de/Nostalghia/westfluegel/texte/joni.html |accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language = de |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080126231905/http://www.tomliwa.de/Nostalghia/westfluegel/texte/joni.html |archivedate = 2008-01-26 |df = }}
6. ^{{cite web |last = Liwa |first = Tom |title = Historie - Flowerpornoes 1 |url = http://www.tomliwa.de/historie.html |accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language = de |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071225150646/http://www.tomliwa.de/historie.html |archivedate = 2007-12-25 |df = }}
7. ^{{cite web |title = Biographie von Tim Isfort |url = http://www.tim-isfort.de/biographie.php |accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language = de |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209235941/http://www.tim-isfort.de/biographie.php |archivedate = 2008-02-09 |df = }}
8. ^{{cite web | title = Tim Isfort Orchester | publisher = Discogs | url = http://www.discogs.com/release/1060241 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
9. ^{{cite web |last=Liwa |first=Tom |title=Wir haben die Musik |url=http://www.tomliwa.de/Nostalghia/sprachland/ressources/wirhaben.html |accessdate=2008-02-14 |language=de |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719095130/http://www.tomliwa.de/Nostalghia/sprachland/ressources/wirhaben.html |archivedate=2011-07-19 |df= }}
10. ^{{cite web | last = Ding | first = Oliver | title = Wir haben die Musik (St. Amour album review) | publisher = Plattentests online | url = http://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=121 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
11. ^{{cite web |title=KEVIN COYNE R.I.P. |work=arthurmag.com |date=2004-12-04 |url=http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?m=2004&w=49 |accessdate=2008-02-14 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224043150/http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?m=2004&w=49 |archivedate=2007-12-24 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
12. ^{{cite web | last = Rosenkranz | first = Boris R. | title = Der Soundtrack zur Rettung | publisher = taz.de | date = 2005-06-25 | url = http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2005/06/25/a0026 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
13. ^{{cite web | last = Wigger | first = Jan | title = Wie oft musst du vor die Wand laufen bis der Himmel sich auftut? (album review) | work = Die wichtigsten CDs der Woche | publisher = spiegel.de | date = 2007-03-06 | url = http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,470075,00.html | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
14. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Die Rückkehr der Flowerpornoes | publisher = businessportal24.com/dpa | date = 2007-04-20 | url = http://www.businessportal24.com/de/Die_Rueckkehr_Flowerpornoes_175501.html | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
15. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Flowerpornoes: "Wie oft musst Du vor die Wand laufen ...?" (album review) | publisher = Der Standard.at | date = 2007-04-29 | url = http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2827346%26_range=6 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
16. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Tom Liwa schickt die Flowerpornoes erneut in die Spur | publisher = maerkischeallgemeine.de | date = 2007-03-19 | url = http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/10891878/63369/ | archive-url = https://archive.is/20070804234412/http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/10891878/63369/ | dead-url = yes | archive-date = 2007-08-04 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
17. ^{{cite web | last = Weber | first = Julian | title = Gute alte Säcke, böse alte Säcke | publisher = taz.de | date = 2007-03-19 | url = http://www.taz.de/index.php?id=archivseite&dig=2007/03/19/a0146 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
18. ^{{IMDb name|0515389}}
19. ^{{cite web | title = The Edukators | publisher = Discogs | url = http://www.discogs.com/release/557019 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}
20. ^{{cite web | last = Kleofas | first = Andreas | title = Lesereiseempfehlung | publisher = Visions | date = 2005-11-17 | url = http://www.visions.de/news/6007/ | archive-url = https://archive.is/20070814152641/http://www.visions.de/news/6007/ | dead-url = yes | archive-date = 2007-08-14 | accessdate = 2008-02-14 |language=de}}

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