Calling Sacrifi-Sir

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Eine neue Dimension des Grauens

Soso, Adya. "Eine neue Dimension der Klassik".

Ich habe diese Werbung ja vor Monaten schon gesehen, aber sie wurde jetzt natürlich wegen Weihnachten wieder hervorgekramt - ja, Sie brauchen unbedingt zum tausendsten Mal totgedudelte Klassikmelodien mit zappeligem Bontempi-Beat im Hintergrund! Und auch Ihre Familie! Also legen Sie doch diesen billigen Scheiß unter den Christbaum, den unser Produzent in 30 Minuten vor dem Heim-PC fabriziert hat!

Jetzt mal im Ernst: Rondò Veneziano haben das bereits in den Achtzigern gemacht, und zwar besser. Wenn ihr schon dieses Konzept wieder aufwärmt, dann doch bitte BITTE mit Beats, die nicht schon 1987 einen Bart hatten (und zwar keinen schönen). Das ist wirklich Plastikmüll der schlimmsten Sorte, es tut mir Leid.

Wenn Sie diese CD tatsächlich heuer im Geschenkspapier finden wundern Sie sich bitte nicht, wenn Ihre Stereoanlage selbst bei der Tür rausrennt um diesen Käse gaaaanz ganz weit weg zu bringen.

Damit ihr wisst, wovon ihr euch fernhalten müsst, hier der Link:
http://www.amazon.de/Classic-Adya/dp/B0054LRFZS

Dieser Post hätte wohl zu Helloween besser gepasst als zu Weihnachten - MEGA-Grusel.


--Sapnish--

Mixtape Christmas 2011

SIDE A
Marta Savić - erotica
The Kovenant - planetarium
Zola Jesus - vessel
Warlord - deliver us from evil
Caterina Valente - herr schmidt

SIDE B
Lana del Rey - video games
Herb Alpert - rise
Kampfar - lyktemenn
Iced Earth - desert rain
Nat King Cole - the christmas song


--Sapnish--

Two Nights with Opeth and Orphaned Land

Opeth at Gasometer, 29.11.2011

After years of absence, Opeth, YES "Opeth", visited Austria again to promote their new album Heritage. I was eager to see them again and was more than happy that Sapnish joined me as well on the trip to Gasometer. We didn't go unprepared and had already listened to the new songs on Heritage beforehand. The set list promised a rather quiet evening with evergreens, such as "Face of Melinda", and a selection of the newest songs. All in all, I enjoyed it and it was Opeth in Vienna, dammit, but still it could have been so much better and less talking in between the songs. Mikael, I love you, but that were just too many jokes to bridge songs and, dammit again, next time eat that Cordon Bleu at Steman instead just talking about it :)

Orphaned Land at Viper Room, 06.12.2011

The post talks about Orphaned Land, but first I have to give credit to one of their supporting act, Arkan. That was great music and the voice of Sarah will chase me in my dreams, *cough* not gonna start about the looks, dammit, she is one beautiful women.

The whole gang was present, Supul, Margot, Sapnish and myself. Down in that "basement" you lose all sense for time, but Orphaned Land just started in time around at 10pm if I'm not totally mistaken. Well, what can I say, it was awesome and the band, the music, the atmosphere was just perfect. If I ever going to be asked what is the essence of attending concerts, I'll just transmit telepathically the feeling I had during "Sapari" or "Norra el Norra".

Sacrifi-Sir

114 days ...

since the last scrobble in Mediamonkey. One of my favourite from Arch Enemy, I will live again, from the album Rise of the Tyrant. Sapnish and I had a talk lately about the future of this blog and how it is going the way all blogs go some day ... dying a slow death, starving for content and hardly attention from one of his makers - me. The blog started as a collection of playlists created by a plug-in called "Today" for Mediamonkey, the best application for music you can find on the interwebs. Credit where credit is due and I'd more than happily give more quids than Venits Media actually want for a lifetime license.

... my apologies, I' m drifting and it didn't even take me a song and few lines into this post ...

I still love Today, although it has been months that a playlist has made an appearance in Mediamonkey and I don't even know if it is working with the newest version of Mediamonkey. If not, I have a new project on the horizon.

So is this a new start for the blog? I'd say - no.

Merely an opening to other topics than just music, with Sapnish, Supul and Sacrifi-sir as authors, maybe aged by a few years,

same love for music and its influence in everyday's life,

movies and its reaction in writing when pictures in your head are just not enough to express the joy or anger while watching,

wine, when saying "Grüner Veltliner" is just not enough to describe the pepperish and fizzy character,

beliefs and thoughts about any topic you can imagine and sometimes nothing at all.

One of the things I cherish in life are the posts of my co-authors and I'd hate to see any of their thoughts and words lost to the nature of the initially intended course of the blog.

With this I conclude my post and go right to my next one :)

Sacrifi-Sir

Ethics, belief and music

The below explicitly excludes bands or musical "artists" that transport their views clearly visible via lyrics, artwork, symbols etc.

Currently, these questions remain unanswered.

1. Is it somehow OK to listen to music where one of the band members might be a racist, a nationalist, a lunatic, an idiot? Who will help me take this decision?

Would I know that a band member is a racist, a nationalist, a lunatic, an idiot? Is it OK not to search online for hours, not to read interviews with band members, to not find out if they are?

Is it OK if I assume that "back then" the band member didn't have these views yet?

2. There is no doubt that anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia - just to name a few - cannot be tolerated. But if a band is ridiculing, insulting and discriminating Christianity - why is this then "OK", or at least something that we don't really take seriously ("it's part of the show and the image"). I do not exclude myself from this line of thinking, either.

3. See this entry by someone: http://www.negatron.de/politik/kritik-und-verantwortung

It thematizes the fact that people who publish a certain radical opinion and, in most cases, include theories, examples and "proof" that their radical opinion is scientific fact, cannot be totally excluded from taking at least some part of responsibility for what is then done with this opinion. People would usually say they are in no way responsible for what was done with their ideas, and that they stand aloof from everything.

Granted, a metal band is (or should be) in no way a political unit. But if we ask the above from people, why do we so vehemently dismiss every question regarding a metal band having an influence on affecting their listener's thoughts, actions or views? Would we maybe say that, as a public figure, metal bands actually might have this kind of influence in some cases, and they should take responsibility for that if they publish, promote and support radical and extreme opinions that, in some cases, also lead to discrimination of others and intolerance?

Yes, as a listener (or viewer, or reader) you also have a stake in this, a huge stake. You have to be willing to be influenced, and it is still your own decision how seriously you take such publications. But we are not talking about the sole responsibility, we are talking about a part of the responsibility, even if it is only minor and can only be addressed as one of the many influences that one is opposed to.



--Sapnish--

Mixtape Summer 2011

SIDE A
Modern Talking - atlantis is calling (s.o.s. for love)
Alexandra Stan - mr. saxobeat
Fiona Apple - the first taste
Fates Warning - traveler in time
Artrosis - nieprawdziwa historia cz. I
Chicane - locking down

SIDE B
Emperor - alsvartr (the oath)
Dimmu Borgir - dimmu borgir
Sankt Otten - thom yorkes letzte große liebe
Placebo - you don't care about us
Dan Balan - justify sex
Andreea Banica - sexy
Modern Talking - you can win if you want



--Sapnish--