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| | | blue chopsticks (usa) #bc 07 cd workshop “es liebt dich und deine körperlichkeit, ein ausgeflippter” compact disc - für wen? (5:55)
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| workshop, es liebt dich und deine körperlichkeit, ein ausgeflippter - bc7 cd
this is workshop's first us release in their decade-plus existence. workshop is the duo of stephan abry and kai althoff -- currently divided between hamburg and cologne -- and "you and your physicalness are loved by a dropout" is their translation of the title. with es liebt dich und deine körperlichkeit, ein ausgeflippter, workshop have cut their cloth into shorter sections (the previous lp, meiguiweisheng xiang, consisted of three long pieces), emphasized lyric- and songwriting, and marshaled a distinctive palette of sounds that favors nylon-string guitar, harp, synthesizer, sitar, and overlays of drum kit and drum machine. their european label sonig, home to mouse on mars and lithops, refers to it as "krautfolk," and offers the following "superficial" comparisons: pink floyd, neu, brigitte fontaine, international harvester, red crayola, boredoms . . . reference could also be made to robert wyatt's fearlessness in dropping his voice into a sonic void, to the dazzling heterogeneity of indian popular music (abry was co-compiler for doob doob o'rama: filmsongs from bollywood), or to the visceral, macabre character of althoff's visual art. (althoff's work has recently appeared on the covers of artforum [the october 2002 issue contains a lengthy profile by tom holert], flash art, and the paris review.) their first two records, workshop and welcome back the workshop, reminded some of their cologne predecessors can, particularly the damo suzuki era. workshop made an abrupt, tires-squealing turn in 1995 with talent, a prescient plunderphonic effort. meiguiweisheng xiang is a pungently organic, back-to-the-groove affair in which time progressively distorts. i had the good fortune to see a rare live performance by workshop in 1999 in graz, austria. i had no particular expectations about how such a peculiarly introverted, esoteric group might translate their strengths -- or discover new ones -- in a live performance. that night workshop performed as a seven-piece group, an awesome three-guitar lineup that followed every hiccuppy nuance of althoff's voice; the evening's graceful arc concluded with workshop merging with and finally yielding to the delirious house dj neon leon. (released february 2002) |
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