In addition to my yesterday's post I got the news that Fehlfarben will release their new album these days. I found some snippets on Soundcloud and this video on youtube. What I heard was a more relaxed version of their former sound. Still having that deep new wave bass and the typical guitar licks. And singer Peter Hein is still an angry man, complaining about the things he don't like in this world.
This man above is the very young Josef Stalin in the times he was revolutionary - times before he turned into a mass-murder.
Yesterday I was out with my former wife into some pubs we used to frequent often. We met a lot of people we used to stay with them for a longer/less time during the last decades. It was funny to talk to them after a few years and we had a real good time. When I came home I had a little blues and I played myself a couple of songs from decades long gone by. I don't know why but I was in the mood to listen to Fehlfarben a band from the late 70s that mean a lot to me. They made maybe the definitive sound of the German punk/new wave. Inspired by the British groups in this era they were heroes to us because they formulated what we thought (I hope Dirk will agree). Paul ist tod is the main statement for our generation.
What I want to have I do not agree and what I cannot get like to me. I would like to get what I to what I am dreaming of.
It's reduced to a pinball game. Paul means that you play pinball with two persons, one on the right and one on the left. And finally it means, that playing together is over right now.
These days I listen a lot to dub and reggae. It's this kind of music to slow down and relax. One of my favorite bands playing dub is located in Switzerland and is maybe known by their crazy dub versions of songs by The Clash. I follow their career for years but never get a chance to see them live. Anyway, this is not the time to complain - it's time to play their music. This one is a classic for them. Deep bass added with a lot of echo and some superb accents on organ and guitar.
As said, the were known by their versions of classic tunes they surprised with their last years record. It's called Burroughs in DUB and features Burroughs himself talking over a dub motive. For those who don't him, he was the godfather of the so called beat generation. In his early years he got addicted to drugs and was out in South America in search of a drug called yaga. Then he turned to Europe and Morocco where he completed his well known works Naked Lunch and Junkie. In the late 60s/early 70s he got in contact with new artists like Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Dennis Hopper and Patti Smith in New York. This song is based on Burroughs' tour as spoken performance artist in the mid 90s.
Since a couple of weeks I have a contract in a local gym to do something for my old bones and body. Never thought that it could make fun to do the exercise course. It's a good feeling to take a shower after workout. A few days ago this song shuffled on my mobile phone when I sat on the bicycle ergometer in the gym. I'm sure most of you know this song by Wreckless Eric thinking his version is the final one. I don't know where I got this file/version from, neither were or when it was recorded but for me it on the same level. Massive guitars playing the chords, the drums make a perfect beat and Mr. Costello sing the verses with his very special voice.
The Godfathers are one of those underrated bands that played the right music at the wrong time. Formed in the late 70s as an alternative /new wave band with strong influences from rhythm and blues and punk they played a very guitar dominated music. Maybe this kind of music was not hip enough in times when electronic music dominated the days. Anyway this rockabilly influenced song from their seldom named record More songs of love and hate (with a fantastic cover showing Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor) is a nugget.
A few weeks ago Chk Chk Chk (!!!) released a new record. This New York based band is around since the late 90s and made some unsettled music many people didn't know how to handle. Deeply based in the tradition of late New Wave they added funky guitars to theirs sound. Throughout the years they got infected by dancefloor and house music. This song would be on a disc I would compile for a longer ride in the car.
Now, finally, I have one-week vacation. No appointments, meetings and project works more for the next days. When I take a look at the development in the bank I work in I come to the knowledge that a lot develops to the negative. More and more jobs are stroked, departing employees are not substituted any more and the work is distributed to less and less employee. A part of my work consists in defining the work routines to this change anew and introducing them. A lot would be easier if was available according to time for the introduction. But, as usual, everything should function immediately. Often I came home after ten, twelve hours working and have no muse to continue my blog.
Todays track is the newest release by Austrian electronic artists Sofa Surfers. The band exists since 1997 and their music is hard to describe. Hardly influenced by Dub and Techno they added over the years elements of downbeat and Trip Hop to their sound. Beyonder Girl a dark track, menacingly, lascivious. From the track there penetrates a brisk, almost quite bigbeat-like rock energy, at the same time he emits a sensitivity, above all transported by the song. Wildly combination, deep, down and dirty.
