Alex´ Birthday April 22, 2006

Asja auf Capri (LIVE) & Vanishing Breed (LIVE)

Already after two seconds listening, everything seems clear: 1980
purposefully deconstructed, and to such an extent, that one could
happily stick an ?authentic!? sticker on it. A copy can hardly be
genius, but it could still be great. However, when looking closer, one
may fear that Asja Auf Capri could like themselves so well in the
derived wave-punk-pose, that they couldn't bring themselves to deliver a
content update. One knows those retro-victims, vegetating and beamed
back into a wish-time, which never existed. But here the opposite is the
case. ?Novi Ronde? deals all the way through with the now and achieves ?
still better ? in parts even, to defend a timeless protest perspective,
without ever coming across flat.
The lyrics, troughout in german and delivered with a brittle/fractured
voice,
are fragmented together from scraps of quotes from imperatives and daily
phrases and which are often not registered in the routine of obedience
and in which hierarchies and priorities manifest themselves casually. In
two lines the realization is delivered that our increasingly potentiated
communication possibilities threaten to end in white noise. Worth
mentioning is also the flood-song ?im neuland?, which pulls as much
ambivalence out of itself with cheek, as is possible in any way: ?I swim
out of the window the domestic dust is my bathing salt? [misquoted in
the review]. Underneath narrow-track beats rattle, pulled out of the
?idiotomat' for two cents the synths sound even more rubbishy than DAF,
Malaria and the rest of the punky - disgruntled/un-funny NDW fraction.
Asja Auf capri are so consequently unfunky, unpolished/unshiny and
banal, something electroclash in its fake fur mask was naturally never
allowed to be, and therefore perhaps quite it is genius yet And to top
it all this shit is published under a creative commons license, too!
(INTRO Magazine)

Centred on the theme of modern dislocation, Vanishing Breed has created
a
collection of contemporary anthems for all international commuters, long

distance lovers and 'foreigners', by processing acoustic and electronic
instrumentation, exploring traditional song structures and story telling

techniques. Vanishing Breed takes inspiration from African Soukous,
Maringa and traditional English folk music.
Vanishing Breed is a land dweller's nautical daydream and is dedicated
to those who dare to love and dream in our modern age.