Calva y Nada: heart throbs, throbs! Playlist
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Women In Tight Girdles
Calva y Nada is a curious German project that began in 1990 the result of a restless mind, and somewhat Teutonic upset, "nicknamed thicket. Calva y Nada kept some continuity with his previous des Willens Glatze -in fact, 50% of the group's unusual name comes from Glatze , 'bald' in German.
From their first LP 'THE Wicked Pesto take my wig' would make clear that it would not be fodder for taggers uncomfortable. A very personal style, and to some extent, precarious, halfway between the EBM of the time and Industrial rhythmic and experimental first Laibach. Another peculiarity of Calva y Nada are his lyrics, not because of the depth and refined literary character but a new sign of the fondness of the Germans and the English language, although more for its rhythm than its actual meaning (as demonstrated years ago Les Liasons Dangereuses or DAF).
That first LP was succeeded by several others, among which worth mentioning 'Happy Days' , which gave them some notoriety in the EBM scene, so popular during those early nineties, the strange EP' Die Katze im Sack 'with its unusual Peret minimalist versions of Bob Dylan and -yes, as read, and his next two long, somewhat mediocre 'heart throbs throbs' thicket, which he dedicated to his wife and ' Das Böse macht ein Gesicht freundliches ' (' Evil shows his softer side '), pubic in 1996.
Mass attendance last concert (Leipzig - Wave Gotik Treffen 1998)
Each work had a particular destination and the most unexpected. 'The Wicked Pesto take my wig' was the story of an Italo Calvino sent to Spain sixteenth century to undermine the strong Catholic Church. 'Happy Days' intended as a smart response to the foot of sampling and lack of originality of the EBM scene. 'Monologue eines Baumes' figured it was a trip over the life of a tree, from its source in nature until further processing at a table, immaterial and empty of life. And 'heart throbs, throbs! " apart from a dedication to women in thicket, intended to be a breath of encouragement to continue wandering through the gray and globalizing world in which we live, our hearts still beating in the chaos of humanity today.
Perhaps the legacy of this bizarre German formation is rather limited, but its originality within the homogenizing scene EBM / New Beat of the time is undoubted. portals 'Rascheln' , 'Without Delay' or 'Los Santos Inocentes' are as fruitful musical legacy of those years. Thicket tried to reflect his vision of the world through music from a creative perspective, aware and full of irony, and deserves more recognition than it is among the followers of Industrial and Electronic music.
[video] Calva y Nada - 'Paradies' (1990)
DISCOGRAPHY:
> 'The Wicked Pesto take my wig' (ZZO Recordings, 1990)
> 'Happy Days' (Hyperium, 1991)
> 'Monologue eines Baumes' (Hyperium, 1993)
> 'heart throbs, throbs! " (Hyperium, 1994)
> 'Die Katze im Sack' EP (Hyperium, 1994)
> 'Das Böse Macht Ein Gesicht Freundliches' (Hyperium, 1996)
> 'Finsterer Zeit' (Hyperium, 1996)
LINKS :
> Official Web (abandoned years ago)
> MySpace Tributo
> Discografía en Musicmaniac
From their first LP 'THE Wicked Pesto take my wig' would make clear that it would not be fodder for taggers uncomfortable. A very personal style, and to some extent, precarious, halfway between the EBM of the time and Industrial rhythmic and experimental first Laibach. Another peculiarity of Calva y Nada are his lyrics, not because of the depth and refined literary character but a new sign of the fondness of the Germans and the English language, although more for its rhythm than its actual meaning (as demonstrated years ago Les Liasons Dangereuses or DAF). That first LP was succeeded by several others, among which worth mentioning 'Happy Days' , which gave them some notoriety in the EBM scene, so popular during those early nineties, the strange EP' Die Katze im Sack 'with its unusual Peret minimalist versions of Bob Dylan and -yes, as read, and his next two long, somewhat mediocre 'heart throbs throbs' thicket, which he dedicated to his wife and ' Das Böse macht ein Gesicht freundliches ' (' Evil shows his softer side '), pubic in 1996.
Mass attendance last concert (Leipzig - Wave Gotik Treffen 1998) Each work had a particular destination and the most unexpected. 'The Wicked Pesto take my wig' was the story of an Italo Calvino sent to Spain sixteenth century to undermine the strong Catholic Church. 'Happy Days' intended as a smart response to the foot of sampling and lack of originality of the EBM scene. 'Monologue eines Baumes' figured it was a trip over the life of a tree, from its source in nature until further processing at a table, immaterial and empty of life. And 'heart throbs, throbs! " apart from a dedication to women in thicket, intended to be a breath of encouragement to continue wandering through the gray and globalizing world in which we live, our hearts still beating in the chaos of humanity today.
Perhaps the legacy of this bizarre German formation is rather limited, but its originality within the homogenizing scene EBM / New Beat of the time is undoubted. portals 'Rascheln' , 'Without Delay' or 'Los Santos Inocentes' are as fruitful musical legacy of those years. Thicket tried to reflect his vision of the world through music from a creative perspective, aware and full of irony, and deserves more recognition than it is among the followers of Industrial and Electronic music.
[video] Calva y Nada - 'Paradies' (1990)
DISCOGRAPHY: > 'The Wicked Pesto take my wig' (ZZO Recordings, 1990)
> 'Happy Days' (Hyperium, 1991)
> 'Monologue eines Baumes' (Hyperium, 1993)
> 'heart throbs, throbs! " (Hyperium, 1994)
> 'Die Katze im Sack' EP (Hyperium, 1994)
> 'Das Böse Macht Ein Gesicht Freundliches' (Hyperium, 1996)
> 'Finsterer Zeit' (Hyperium, 1996)
LINKS :
> Official Web (abandoned years ago)
> MySpace Tributo
> Discografía en Musicmaniac
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