| Human Being / Live At The Zodiac - Berlin 1968 |
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| Album: | Live At The Zodiac - Berlin 1968 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Human Being | Added: | 07/2009 | |
| Label: | Barking Green | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-11-22 | Pull Date: | 2010-01-24 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | 27 Dec | 20 Dec | 6 Dec |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 22, 2009: | The Courtesy Flush Track 1 | 4. | Dec 03, 2009: | midori orangeasm in a highball Track 1 | |
| 2. | Dec 16, 2009: | orangeasm Track 1 | 5. | Dec 02, 2009: | Graveyard 37 Degree Double Ear Canal Shear Track 1 | |
| 3. | Dec 15, 2009: | The Courtesy Flush Track 1 | 6. | Dec 01, 2009: | Memory Select [untitled track - excerpt] |
| Album Review |
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| sure thing Reviewed 2009-11-10 | ||
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Human Being Live At The Zodiac – 1968 “You can’t paint a German landscape once a tank has driven through it,” Anselm Kiefer Here we have a previously unreleased and widely unheard live recording of this prophetic avant group’s first show in West Berlin in 1968. This is a throbbing, demonic whale dirge; it’s unhurried, deliberate and dull. Occasionally the players develop a sustained theme (ghoulish howling, a broken hell train chugging away from the station, chain gang grunts, an upset and deranged troop of mordor gate-beasts swinging through a tangle of weighty molasses, breaking free, and tumbling off of a nearby cliff one by one like stupid lemmings and landing with a thud onto an old, deeply fastened war drum) before allowing it to recede into a dark, incomprehensible rumble. The piece shifts and changes, but never really develops into anything more than a succession of interesting experiments in found sound and patient free jazz appropriations. Regardless, portions here are truly frightening and the piece is worth a full listen. 56 minutes long. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Track 1 | |||||