COMMISSIONED MUSIC

Blixa Bargeld

Label 
potomak c&p 2008
CD 
15,00 €

Tracklist

  1. Ouvertüre
  2. Lange Szene
  3. Ritual
  4. AFF 14
  5. Indoktrination
  6. Blackout Music
  7. Bassthema
  8. Auf freiem Feld
  9. Somewhere over the Rainbow
  10. All alone am I
  11. Magic Moment
  12. Schacht
  13. Klopfzeichen
  14. Workuta
  15. Wie das Baden im Nichts ist
  16. Wundbrand

COMMISSIONED MUSIC first appeared in 1995 and is now available as an expanded re-release. As the programmatic title indicates, the album is concerned with commissioned work for theater and film. The new edition of the CD was not only enlarged by the two songs “All Alone Am I” and “Magic Moment” from the theater music, but also with music from two videos, “Wie das Baden im Nichts ist” (What It’s like to Swim in Nothingness) and “Wundbrand” (Gangrene). Blixa Bargeld paces the voice extremes between cries and whispers here, stacking loops to sound images of almost painful intensity one on top of the other.

COMMISSIONED MUSIC was Blixa Bargeld’s first solo album, where he positioned himself as an independent artist beyond the context of the Einstürzende Neubauten – as a musician with an extraordinary feeling for sounds and their effects, with a bold sense of design and a strong intuition for the complex relationship between visual and musical inventions.