To start things off...
Kolleidosonic is now my virtual bulletinboard for random things of interest. Mostly musical, a sonic kaleidoscopic collision.
Yes. May we begin.....
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
The babylonians conquered the surrounding lands and built and built and built to reach the heavens and then God smited (sp?) them down and cast them to the 4 corners of the earth and gave them all different tongues. Now multi national corporations across the land are joining the fight. Globalization will reach the heavens and unite the tongues once again.
Einstuerzende Neubauten, "Tanz Debil" from Kollaps (Zickzack 1981)
I saw Einstuerzende Neubauten play a free show on the waterfront in Seattle in 1985. One of my friends who had a car (and was old enough to have a license) drove me there. I remember seeing a strangely clothed old man improvising a sculpture from garbage wash onto the the rocks, a mohawked crusty attempting to stick his head into the bass bin and Blixa Bargeld strutting around in a leather vest that was held together by staples while they doused chunks of styrofoam and carboard boxes with gasoline in a metal trough at the foot of the stage and set it on fire. Total assault on the senses. I'd never seen anything like it and it changed my life for ever. Yes. I liked it. Re-listening after many years, I still like it.
They seem to go well together......a soundtrack made MANY years later. Der stern ist tot. The star is dead. Appropriately (or at least as my pretend soundtrack to brueghel's painting), Einstueurzende Neubauten means Collapsing New Buildings. This track originally appeared on Kollaps (Collapse) and then again in 1983 on Strategien Gegen Arkitectur (Strategies Against Architecture). The Tower of Babel was a apparently a very large new building that collapsed. Kind of like the WTC, but that'd be a different story.......
Kolleidosonic is now my virtual bulletinboard for random things of interest. Mostly musical, a sonic kaleidoscopic collision.
Yes. May we begin.....
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
The babylonians conquered the surrounding lands and built and built and built to reach the heavens and then God smited (sp?) them down and cast them to the 4 corners of the earth and gave them all different tongues. Now multi national corporations across the land are joining the fight. Globalization will reach the heavens and unite the tongues once again.
Einstuerzende Neubauten, "Tanz Debil" from Kollaps (Zickzack 1981)
I saw Einstuerzende Neubauten play a free show on the waterfront in Seattle in 1985. One of my friends who had a car (and was old enough to have a license) drove me there. I remember seeing a strangely clothed old man improvising a sculpture from garbage wash onto the the rocks, a mohawked crusty attempting to stick his head into the bass bin and Blixa Bargeld strutting around in a leather vest that was held together by staples while they doused chunks of styrofoam and carboard boxes with gasoline in a metal trough at the foot of the stage and set it on fire. Total assault on the senses. I'd never seen anything like it and it changed my life for ever. Yes. I liked it. Re-listening after many years, I still like it.
They seem to go well together......a soundtrack made MANY years later. Der stern ist tot. The star is dead. Appropriately (or at least as my pretend soundtrack to brueghel's painting), Einstueurzende Neubauten means Collapsing New Buildings. This track originally appeared on Kollaps (Collapse) and then again in 1983 on Strategien Gegen Arkitectur (Strategies Against Architecture). The Tower of Babel was a apparently a very large new building that collapsed. Kind of like the WTC, but that'd be a different story.......
posted by Maga Bo at 9:51 PM
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caught EN in Vancouver at Expo 86 in a new venue that was (perhaps ironically) demolished a couple of years later. The crowd was a sea of big hair and black clothes in what look like the entire Skinny Puppy fan club. FM Einheit was impressive with his muscular, in-your-face performance but I thought the rest of it was abit of a wank with electric guitars strung around their waists clad in black leather. A bit to "Rock Star" to be taken serious as anything "avant". Fave part was the "learn to speak German" language tapes that proceeded the show. A real mood enhancer.
Test Dept. played the same venue soon thereafter and showed up EN in a big way. More multi-media concept and smart execution than rocker-on-herion making noise-for-noise-sake posturing.
Anyhow that's how I remember it.
riffing on the 60s cliche..."If you liked the Eighties you weren't there"
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