RUDOLF HECKE
GOD IS DOG SPELLED BACKWARDS
The first solo album by Rudolf Hecke (COMPANY OF STATE), deals with a concrete period of his life.
For a year and a half, he locked himself up in a completely black room, spending days and nights writing, painting, reading, eating (“That same junky girl who brought me vegetables and eggs, in exchange for letting her read my latest poems”), making music and finally having a deep mental depression that was followed by a suicide attempt…
“When I first looked outside during recovery I noticed that even the grass had turned black during my absence”.
The music is influenced by the written thoughts of Arthur Schopenhauer and Max Stirner, the hallucinogenic images of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Fernando Arrabal (“When I feel that black tunnel approaching again I watch one of their movies, they help me to stop it”) and the lives of Kenneth Patchen, Nico and Edith Piaf.
It is trance music not dance music, based on the skill to write catchy and surprising melodies.
It will change the way you think !!
IT IS OUR SENTENCE TO ENDURE AND OUR ONLY CRIME THAT WE ARE HERE TO SERVE IT.
“I just stand myself as I stand this friend to hang himself in front of a six year old child.
I’m not hiding anymore
I’ll be struck too by that dark angel’s wing, my mind isn’t worth trusting it barks with insane laughter”
The tracks :
A Loss
Bring Him Down
The Children Of Elm Street
Guardian Angel
One Last Summer
God=Dog Spelled Backwards
Eyes Of Crows
Together
In Every Mind Some Rain Must Fall
It’s A Shame
Some Awful Gift
Dream Of Nico
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
one year passes...
i have owned das damen's 'triskaidekaphobe' for ten years, and have only this afternoon fallen in love with it. can anyone tell me more about this group?
― stevie, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
nine years pass...
six years pass...
What the... https://dromedaryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/1986-keeps-me-wild
Revolutionary NYC rock quartet Das Damen have returned with a deluxe reissue of their landmark 1986 debut EP, 1986: It Keeps Me Wild. Newly remastered and augmented with an array of previously unreleased demos, reimagined tracks, and a brand-new issue of Das Damen drummer Lyle Hysen’s legendary fanzine, Damaged Goods (featuring a comprehensive timeline, show flyers, oral history, testimonials from Thurston Moore, Tom Scharpling, and more), DAS DAMEN will be released digitally via Dromedary Records on Friday, September 8, and will include a downloadable copy of the zine. A deluxe vinyl edition will be available in October. Pre-saves and pre-orders are available now.
+Thalia Zedek on one song! And they're playing at WFMU next month. Nutty!
Do Das Damen still have an audience?
I think a few more than Rudolf has.*
(did they ever?)
Definitely in a small pocket of ~15-20 kids in the western suburbs of Chicago, in 1988. Must be more somewhere.
If they came through town on the right night at the right time, I'd go see them now.**
* I have never heard of Rudolf Hecke.
** Weekend, 8pm doors, 9pm show. I'm old now.