Cobra Killer & Kapajkos / Das Mandolinenorchester
Album: Das Mandolinenorchester   Collection:General
Artist:Cobra Killer & Kapajkos   Added:Aug 2005
Label:Monika Enterprise  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-09-18 Pull Date: 2005-11-20
Week Ending: Nov 13 Oct 30 Oct 23 Oct 16 Oct 9 Oct 2 Sep 25
Airplays: 2 2 3 2 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Feb 27, 2010: Music Casserole
L.A. Shaker
4. Nov 06, 2005: Multiple Personality Disorder
Mund Auf Augen (Stecker Raus Ich Dreh Durch)
2. Apr 05, 2006: like a virgin
Heavy Rotation
5. Oct 26, 2005: Epic Sparkle Soundtracks
L.A. Shaker
3. Nov 09, 2005: Eels in the Loo
High Is The Pine
6. Oct 23, 2005: Multiple Personality Disorder
Mund Auf Augen (Stecker Raus Ich Dreh Durch)

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2005-09-14
Wow! These two women win the award for infectious beats and blending of electro dance beats and rock (see their prevous "76/77" cd), but WAIT: here they haul off and rework all their songs 1998-2004 with (mostly) only a mandolin orchestra (Kapajkos) as backup and some vocal treatments. Truly brilliant as instead of coming across as "unplugged" or "folk versions" of their songs they take on new life while maintaining an electrobounce that is usually associated with the funkiest baddest dancefloor of your dreams. I guess there really is something in the water in Berlin (where these two harken from, singing in english und auf deutsch). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (fans of Raincoats, Nina Hagen, old Foetus, Ultravox, and Balkan folk music).

(btw: these two also win the "nicest butts" award, hands-down... mind you, they are indeed sticking it in your face in a "sex sells" tongue in butt-cheek manner, its not your imagination. check their previous album where they don the same dresses).

1) bouncy infectious beat and melody and vocals
2) eastern folk flare comes through here in this upbeat track
3) a more midpaced minor feel to this (quiet ending resembles dead-air, caution)
4) slow waltz swing, bass and hammond organ join in
5) upbeat near punk urgency, this one does smack of "acoustic version", pretty kick ass
6) holy moly, disjunct sorta hip grinding rhythms of the original are matched, a thing of beauty
7) dramatic flare with breaks, electrodrums buried in there, midpaced
8) auf deutsch, mid paced urgent dramatic crescendos
9) synth melody joins, minor toned upbeat new wavey urgency
10) heres another where the original is so infectious theres no cure for the disease it will give you (that being horniness and happiness) and this re-work has its own special sauce
11) comical feel to this, the inescapable beat is still there, a good 5 seconds of dead air at end so watch out
12) urgent minor toned instrumental

Track Listing
1. Heavy Rotation   7. Show Me Your Ruler
2. The Stoker   8. Ist Es Farbig?
3. Helicopter 666   9. H-Man-A-Psychocat
4. High Is The Pine   10. Chemie Des Alltags
5. Mund Auf Augen (Stecker Raus Ich Dreh Durch)   11. Lambretta Does It Better
6. L.A. Shaker   12. Mund Auf Augen Zu (Sine Voces)