We will deal with another heavyweight of Turkish music today, one who refuses the genre name ‘Arabesk’ for being „inadequate and uncomplete“, and prefers labels such as ‘Progressive Turkish Music’ or simply: ‘Gencebay Music’. Orhan Gencebay has officially sold 80 million records in Turkey- which already makes him one of the most succesful artists on …
We were pretty sure that we weren’t raised in Liverpool. Our generation had to come up with a counterpoint to that… Kraftwerk was willing to relate to the past of German identity. Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk, 1975-91) If you ever plan to fly to Cologne and its neighbor-city Düsseldorf for its electronic music & ‘Krautrock’ heritage …
Dieter Enzenauer (78) was a production assistant and personal assistant for the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He worked on several classics of the New German Cinema, such as Nora Helmer (1974), Martha (1974), and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974). We met for a conversation in Cologne. You started to work for Fassbinder in …
As much as I love my hometown, I can also hate it viscerally: for its provinciality and nationalism culminating in the city’s mind-numbing and degenerate carnival festivities fueled by the home-brewn beer called Kölsch, or for the mismanaged and ugly build-up of the city after 95% of it was destroyed in the merciless bombings of …
Part 2: The Crash
by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono
I opened my eyes in confusion. Where was I? Palms and sand and water everywhere. And why was I laying naked in the sand like a stranded mermaid?
Eigteenth of Oktember The night falls The king comes The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of …
#7 Malcolm McDowell & Christine Noonan My fellow Sex Gourmets, today we take a look at Lindsay Anderson’s classic ‘If…’ (1968). Here, we have a rare exemplary of a sex scene managing the impossible limbo between half-way hinted sex and a pure animalistic attack. The semester has just started at one of the renowned grey …
My readers will know that no band on this planet annoys me more than the Beatles, an outrageously overrated band with decent tunes that function best as good children’s music. A band whose music and boring story is forced on us in an endless reproduction-loop through radio stations and music magazines which put the four …
(Abyss Beneath Bad Attitude) You don’t care about ABBA, but are still listening to the White Album? You better start to care. ABBA- the Swedish phenomenon that took over the world between 1972- 1982 with their insanely catchy songs. Ten years of perfect pop and sweetness performed by two couples in glittery space costumes making …
By 2000 everyone will be bored to death. Falco (1957-1998) Ask most Americans and other English-speaking people, and they will tell you that Falco is the German one-hit-wonder with that “Amadeus” song. Dance music and rap freaks among them may also remember “Der Kommissar” and Falco’s legacy as one godfather of white rap. But that’s …
