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THE BLECH - Avantgarde Music
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Biography ]
THE
BLECH - UNSCRUPULOUS ENTERTAINMENT
THE BLECH released 6 LP/CD. Their
albums and CDs have become a treasure-trove of extravagant, groovy
dance hall artistry. In addition
to their CDs, THE BLECH presented equally radical
videoclips and unscrupulous live-shows - the already mentioned "treat
for the eyes".
The forcefulness with
which THE BLECH flung their conviction from the stage
into the audience was at once hypnotic, irritating and erotic.
THE BLECH played
at Festivals in Montreal, Berlin, Belgrade, Nancy, Wroclaw, Warsaw,
Rio de Janeiro, Prague, Moscow, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Novosibirsk, Marseille
and they received international awards.
  
CHEERFULLY
ACROSS THE ABYSS ... AND BEYOND!
THE BLECH (1985-1996). The German band THE BLECH became known when they came
on the scene in 1985, using a combination of experiments with language and
music, with a fondness for absurd plays on words. In subsequent years, the
band developed these musical experiments into one of the few timeless approaches
to pop music in Germany, which enjoyed worldwide acclaim. THE BLECH have helped
to overturn an artistic millenium which, as a basis for the relationship between
Man and nature, had clung to harmony.
THE ETERNAL ANTAGONISM
THE BLECH combines what appears to be uncombinable. Construction - destruction,
chaos - control, aggression - beauty, they have unified all of these opposing
poles into a hard, yet fantastic feeling.
The ensemble created a large-scale,
multi-level, paradoxical game employing a number of media in order to disappear
behind the shrouds of their self-created
confusion. Moving between dadaism and techno, U2 and Stockhausen, the rock
music of THE BLECH is charged with multi-faceted meaningfulness. The thoughts
they intend to provoke, however, are not guided along a fixed path, leaving
room for freedom of choice among innumerable possible interpretations.
CULTURAL DECEPTION,
EROTICISM AND SAUERKRAUT
Hubl Greiner explains the band's definition of music as follows: "We ask
questions without knowing the answers. We love painting pictures with a view
to challenging
and provoking the viewer to derive his or her own answers. We call on the onlooker
to participate in a creative process. We depict life as an insanely witty,
simultaneous concert of murder, cultural deceit, eroticism and sauerkraut.
We dissolve the eternal controversy of contrasts in laughter. We convinced
the Virgin Mary to wed the devil."
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BLECH - COMPILATIONS
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