Re: 51st STATE OF AMERICA

Hi, furtherfield!

Ten years ago, in 21 of August of 1992, i had a amazing experience in the=
Montemor Velho castle. In that night, i saw a live performence of Test Dep=
t! Introducing the show, the music of Arvo Part and the track "miserere".=
Than, in the walls of this monumental and medieval castle, was projected f=
ilms about war, black and white films about arabes, the cristian cruzades a=
nd so one, when the castle almost setting fire, with many stakes, pyres tha=
t burning in the merlons of the castle. Of course, it was just a performenc=
e, included in the CITEMOR 92 activities. During that time, the percussions=
played "current affairs", "Legacy" and so one… It was a apocalyptic, pol=
itical, industrial and dancing experience, a very intense one… I will nev=
er forget, principally, the speech, the strong words accompanying this meta=
l sounds, terrible order words, like "Long live Saddam Hussein", accusation=
s, blasphemys, with voices samples of George Bush, John Major and Margareth=
Thatcher!
Today, i don't listening industrial music any more! Now, i prefer jazz,=
contemporary classica (Ligeti, Boulez, Luigi Nono) or jazz fusion with hip=
-hop, like Cinematic Orchestra or Yesterday's New Quintet, but, there's a e=
xception: "The Unacceptable Face of Freedom" Test Dept. album. This particu=
lary work, still have such actuality and is so strong (the impressive "51st=
STATE OF AMERICA", or the manifesto against police brutality that is "STAT=
EMENT") that i have this CD, always near of my computer desk. In fact, in t=
his very moment, when i write this post, i'm listening the "FIST" track.

Best regards:

Joao Pedro
[email protected]

—– Original Message —–
From: furtherfield
To: -IID42 Kandinskij @27+
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Hitler project


mmm,

The article that goes with this event…
The Unacceptable Face of Freedom
'No, not an article on Test Dept., for those of you who expected such a t=
hing! Instead, inspired by Thee Grey Wolves, I'd like to take a look at fas=
cist imagery in "industrial" and experimental music'. http://www.hyperre=
al.org/intersection/zines/est/articles/freedom.html

The link between fascist/fetish, street urban wear & Industrial music is =
a strange dichotomy. I myself in my younger years was partial to wearing al=
l black with chic fascistic style, overtones. It is also pretty hot in the =
homo-erotic camp. My brother after he came out of borstal, was a skinhead o=
r suedehead. I was into Throbbing Gristle, Liabach and all that stuff, with=
a more punky element. I remember sitting on a train after visiting London =
going back Southend, about to bunk on a Barking tube link after having figh=
ts on the streets of London against 'NF' backed skinheads at an anti-nazi r=
ally. On the same train there were a few skinheads all dressed in black, wi=
th them was a certain now very well known Gary Bushel who was then respecte=
d by most racist skinheads.

They started picking on some black people sitting on the tube who were or=
iginally just minding their own business, Gary Bushel was egging them on al=
l the way. Our small gang then attacked the fascist skinheads and gave them=
a good hiding, at the next stop we all got arrested and piled into the sam=
e police van. The police (because I looked similar) asked if I was with the=
skinheads, I said no, I'm not sure if they believed me though. I had a ski=
nhead type haircut but more spikey red yet It got me thinking about how car=
eful one should dress after that. Now dress code or urban wear is not such =
a significant 'signifier' in repsect of delcaring your beliefs or clan or i=
dentity. After questioning my many blindspots which included not taking per=
sonal resposibility for my masculinity, I long ago dropped being part of a =
gang, for I realised that mob rule was too easy manipulated by mini despots=
.

I have always been into what is now teremd as 'Darkwave' but with a new w=
ave edge such as Recoil who I think are a pretty kool band - music that com=
es from an industrial genre. Of course into many other noise expounders als=
o such as the Fall. Although urban culture seems to be not so dynamic these=
days with a lot of music being propogated by money crunching record compan=
ies, trying to kill off independent music. I also have a problem with Stuar=
t Home and his fascist leanings and connexions with skinhead culture. Plus =
all his avantgarde books seem to be about him alone and how he has started =
every movement under the sun.

This also brings me back to a poem by Syvia Plath (I respect her work a l=
ot)

Imagery in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"
Sylvia Plath once said that "Daddy" is about a girl with an Electra compl=
ex. The speaker of the poem has lost her father at age ten, at a time when =
she still adored him unconditionally, then she gradually realizes the oppre=
ssing dominance of the father, and compares him to a nazi, a devil, and a v=
ampire. She cannot deal with his death and has to get over the love-hatred =
and the images that haunt her. After an attempted suicide she marries man a=
s domineering as her father, and leads a short and painful marriage.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/8984/daddy.htm
marc



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