| VICTORY OF THE BETTER MAN
...wegen Brot CMP 69 |
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1. ...wegen Brot 4:59
2. Views 5:06
3. Vous Êtes 4:14
4. Die Taschenoper 5:46
Si Pulcinella lo sai
Pantelone si é perduto
5. Why I am not a painter 6:55
6. Die Taschenoper 5:06
E Sinella é furiosa
Un nuovo viso
Meraviglioso
7. The waking 4:14
8. Der Besessene 5:45
9. Layer 4:57
10. Layer & bull; Hymn 2:16
11. Anniversary on the island 5:58
Composed by Bernhard, Bronco, Kratzenstein, Lehan, Quintus, Rattay
except Layer-Hymn by Porpain Pamieux
Harald Bernhard: Voice, Tube-Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Specials
Pourpain Pamieux: Saxes, Clarinets, Flutes, Piano, Keyboards, Percussion
Matthias Kratzenstein: Bass, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Samples, Edits
Walter Quintus: Violins
U.K. Rattay: Guitars, Prepared Instruments, Sounds, Treatments
Marc Lehan: Drums, Percussion
Rolf Schult: Voice
Produced by Victory Of The Better Man
Executive Producer: Kurt Renker
Recorded by Matthias Kratzenstein & Walter Quintus at Ztudio Zerkall, Germany 1993-5
Additional Recordings at Studio Demo Deo, Cologne
Mixed by Walter Quintus
Cover Design by Petra Sahm
...wegen Brot... VOTBM's 2nd offering on CMP is an exceptional mosaic textually composed of innumerable cross-references drawn from literature. They treat the chosen poems of writers like Peter O'Hara, W.S. Mervin or Theodore Roethke as their music leading to the creation of the linguistic equivalent of a tone-poem. In a humoresque manner ...wegen Brot... shifts from adaptations of the Italian Opera Buffo to collective modulations of familiar musical parameters into their own unique style: FREE POP.
The new album...wegen Brot... was nearly two years in the making. CMP's sound-engineer Walter Quintus as a violinist became the fifth member of the ensemble. Zaire-origin drummer & percussionist Marc Lehan joined in for some tunes and the well-know German film-dub voice of Rolf Schult is featured with a poem by Charles Baudelaire.
VOTBM's unique sonic adventures led to an invitation to perform live at KLANGART 95, Germany bi-annual leading festival for abstract and pioneering music on June 10th, 1995.
Het is het soort muziek dat de rust en akoestiek van een concertzaal verdient, of met koptelefoons op genoten dient to worden. OPSCENE 8-9/95
Hübsch respektlos vor allem was einengt; schön verwirrend für alle, die nur das Gradlinige goutieren - und wundersam musikalisch, was die deutsche Formation VOTBM hier auf ihrem zweiten Album an ästhetischer Rauhbeinigkeit inszeniert. HIFI VISION 11/95
VOTBM call the style 'free pop', and though there's not much in the way of Verse/chorus structure, there are plenty of hooks and great noises. Whenever things get to wild, there's usually a rhythm guitarist to hand, dying to get back into a groove. THE WIRE 8/95
War L'Utopiste ein Film fürs Ohr, den man sich zum besseren Verständnis von Anfang bis Ende anhörte, ist ...wegen Brot... eine Sammlung von Fotos, von denen man sich auch mal ein einzelnes aus dem Album nimmt - Musik, die kurz davor ist, sichtbar zu werden. EBM 12/95
Simultaneously sweet and subversive CMJ 11/95
Theater für's Ohr mit eindringlicher Musik und Texten, wie man sie früher einmal von guten Radio-Hörspielen kannte. JAZZTHING 6-8/95
Mit ihrem zweiten Album startet VOTBM erneut einen Frontalangriff auf eingefahrene Rezeptions-Muster. DISCOVER 7-8/95
