daemon@decwrl.UUCP (01/09/84)
From: star::malik (Karl Malik ZK1-1/D42 ) Subj; DAF, Ponty, Bach & Turnips 1) I heard a nu-wave group on the radio the other day. I liked it and would be interested in hearing more. They were called DAF - Deutsches Americanes Freundshaft - or something like that. I would guess they're German. Anyone heard of them? Have I got the name right? My record store clerk never heard of them. 2) Bought Jean-Luc Ponty's 'Individual Choice' album. I love it. More electronics than on his earlier albums. Lots of precise, sparkly sequencer work, rich synthesizer chords (Ponty plays most the synthesizer tracks himself) and free, lyrical violin improvisation. If you already like Ponty, by all means get it. If you've never heard of him (he's a 'fusion' violinist), but you like people like McLaughlin, Corea, Hancock or Tangerine Dream, my guess is that you won't be disappointed. 3) I too, assumed that that comment about Bach being under- rated was meant as ironic. I've met more people who single him out as *THE* best composer of all times. I thought that what was meant was that even if we call him the best composer of all times, that's still under-rating him. 4) Nice LaMonte Young (composer) quote - "I once ate a raw turnip with lots of mustard - I liked it better than any Beethoven I'd ever heard." ,Karl decvax!decwrl!rhea!star!malik
simon@psuvax.UUCP (01/10/84)
It is good that you put composer in parenthesis. I doubt that he is one - the only possible response to his opinion is that he made inappropriate use of the turnip. janos simon
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (01/10/84)
Yep, you got the name (almost) right: the band is "Deutsch-Amerikanishe
Freundschaft". That means "German-American Friendship" and is meant to be
ironic, of course. I don't know very much about the group. Apparently
they toy a bit with neo-Nazi aesthetics, going about as far with them as
they can without getting banned, and mixing them with current reactionary
political rhetoric. The intent is to be bitingly satirical, but to do it
subtly enough that the objects of the satire don't know that it's all a
put-on. It seems to have been successful, since the band has aroused the
ire of various conservative politicians, who took the group for real Nazis
without comprehending that the band's point was that the Nazis of today
are more likely to wear three-piece suits than brown shirts...
I only heard anything of theirs on the radio once in ten months in Germany
last year, but I liked it. I wish I'd bought their album. It would have
made a great souvenir, since I spent my year abroad on a scholarship from
the Federation of German-American Clubs.
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Prentiss Riddle
("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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