Auf der Maur
Auf der Maur is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Auf der Maur (album), debut album of Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Auf der Maur
Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (/ˌɔːf dər ˈmaʊər/; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress.
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole in the summer of 1994 and is featured on several Hole releases, including the band's third studio album Celebrity Skin (1998). Following her departure from Hole in 1999, Auf der Maur briefly joined The Smashing Pumpkins as a touring member for its 2000 tour and began her solo career; her debut studio album, Auf der Maur, was released in 2004 on Capitol Records and her second studio album, Out of Our Minds, was released in 2010 on her own independent record label, PHI–MAdM Music Inc.
Best known for her music career, Auf der Maur is also an established photographer and occasional actress. Her photographs have been featured in National Geographic and exhibited at Sotheby's. As an actress, she has appeared in How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), Beyond Borders (2003) and Collaborator (2011) amongst other films. As part of her 2009 multidisciplinary project Out of Our Minds—which featured an album, a single, a film and a comic book—Auf der Maur acted as a film and record producer, working alongside her husband and filmmaker Tony Stone. Stone and Auf der Maur are the creative directors and owners of Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York, United States.
Auf der Maur (album)
Auf der Maur is the eponymous debut studio album by the Canadian alternative rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, released on February 2, 2004 on Capitol Records. Following her career as a bassist for Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Auf der Maur recorded the album of the course of two years in various studios through the United States and Canada with producer Chris Goss. The songs featured on Auf der Maur were written over a ten-year period, from 1992 to 2002, throughout her time in Tinker, Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Auf der Maur features a number of guest musicians and collaborators including former bandmates Eric Erlandson and James Iha, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan, Jeordie White and John Stanier. The album's sound deviates significantly from Auf der Maur's previous work and features a more experimental and progressive sound.
Upon its release, Auf der Maur received generally favourable reviews and was a moderate commercial success, selling 200,000 copies worldwide. Following a successful tour through Europe and United Kingdom prior the album's release, two of the album's three singles—"Followed the Waves" and "Real a Lie"—charted in the UK Singles Chart. A subsequent tour of North America and another tour in the United Kingdom led the album to chart in both the United States' Billboard 200 and the UK Album Chart at number 187 and number 31, respectively.
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ALBUMS
- Out of Our Minds released: 2010
- Auf der Maur released: 2004
- 2004-08-20: Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, Belgium released: 2004
- 2004-04-21: Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany released: 2004
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Head Unbound
by: Auf Der MaurFall around the fire,
And I, fall around the fire
A higher me for you,
Hire me for you
Fall around town, down
For the rest of the world to drown
For you'll come down
To the rest of your falling down,
On your head
Falling down
With your head unbound
I'm falling down
Down to your ground
Fall around town, down
For the rest of the world to drown
For you'll come down
To the rest of your falling down,
On your head
And I said you could hurt me
No more,
With your heart on the floor
I said you could hurt me no more
To the rest of the world it's sure
That you will hurt me no more
To the rest of the world,
You're surely hurting more
I'm falling down
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