At 03:39 PM 2/22/02 -0800, Philip Sherburne wrote:
quoted 8 lines oh my gosh, have we got a followup for you!
>oh my gosh, have we got a followup for you!
>just got the new release on ekkehard ehler's WHATNESS label
>(www.whatness.de). and where previous releases there were firmly in the
>realm of "art music," the new one -- credited, apparently, to "marc ushmi
>meets reverend galloway on ernst busch" -- is deep, deep, deep house. some
>of the tracks are on the minimal/808 tip, some more knitted together out of
>disco samples. over the top of it, male vocalists singing lyrics that seem
>to have something to do with communism, in deep soul style.
Here's the press-release (finally) according to
http://www.fe.org - and it
sounds pretty nuts:
When socialists get on their soapboxes... as part of their campaign for the
1928 Reichstag elections, the German Social Democratic Party SPD handed out
pieces of soap imprinted with the words 'Vote SPD'. The accompanying flyer
bore the ditty 'Nimm dieses Stückchen Seife, auf daß es Dich erfreu' und
schenke deine Stimme der SPD-Partei.' (roughly: Take this piece of soap
from me, enjoy it, and vote for the SPD). Not everyone in the socialist
workers' movement appreciated such offbeat humour. It spawned the 'Soap
Song' which audiences never tired of requesting from the singer, actor and
later communist Ernst Busch. It was one of the songs that firmly
established Busch's reputation as the 'Tauber of the Barricades' --
alluding to 1920s operetta star Richard Tauber. In December 2000 Ekkehard
Ehlers and Markus Weisbeck asked Stephen Galloway, one of the most
scintillating figures in the German pop scene, to interpret the famous
workers' revolutionary songs of Ernst Busch on the occasion of an
exhibition curated by Liam Gillick at MAK Vienna. This legendary
champagne-fuelled recording was presented as an installation in Vienna
(very loud, at night). Some six months later, Marcus Schmickler set about
compiling this CD on the basis of those recordings. On Ernst Busch opens up
a new dimension in polit-funk with a blend of exhilarating techno and house
tracks based on Mr Galloway's absurd cultural achievement. This CD pays
homage to Ernst Busch and begs the question of how to interpret a text one
does not understand."
Michael
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http://www.ampcast.com/jetjaguar
http://www.involverecords.com
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