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...according to our Maggie on Thu 01 Mar, 2007.
Now a 12" from E JUGEND with Last Exit Wedding. A heady concoction of sounds and soundscapes, cracking beats and delicate guitar. It seems to have been recorded over 4 years and I think that has given it a maturity in wine years that creates true diversity. It has real "experimental" jam moments where instruments are strapped up and played discordantly without restrictions and going nowhere... like a man with a bag on his head lost in a store cupboard. However my favourite bits are when they zone out with pretty sounds and drones and repetitive dueting plucked moments. Yeh I'm digging it
e jugend
Last Exit Wedding
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e jugend is a susidiary of German experimentalists Ma Chérie For Painting and Baja and thus the concentrate of something particularly heavy (without being heavy metal).
Erratic. Sucking material without growing into a constant state. "Do you think they thought we knackered them?" Maybe then, at the Technical University festival (including beermug throwing) in times of experienced change of climate. Just like walking barefoot on hot concrete. With a wide grin. Tap-dancin´ on carribean instruments. And in one moment it all dissolves into - nothingness.
Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Gas, Godard. Quasi Rubber Soul without Exile On Main Street as basic to do music together. One-take. Or rather: live. Inbetween two acoustic guitars and laptop (featuring strawberry cake in springtime) on the one hand and successful battles of material while supporting 5-piece-bands on the other.
"These are people that, for sure, don´t live behind the woods."
"e jugend reminds me of cooking sessions"
"They sound like Pink Floyd after having played for three hours."
Music like a colliding accident. Field recording disposal this time from Dominican Republic via Kuala Lumpur, Venice, Pula, Stuttgart. Since 1998 e jugend have been no.5 and no.9. Happy to be here. As simple as that.
Quotes from "Last Exit Wedding"-reviews
"Despite being a feel-good-factor this album remains a fist-punch against the possibility of music being just being functional and entertaining (...). Best German DIY-record since the diverse The Notwist side-/co-operation projects in the mid-nineties" (INTRO magazine No. 147, March 2007)
Tracklist:
(A-Side)
Mary Harbour* What we call entertainment* Traurig, aber wahr* K.O. in L.A.* Balkan express pt. 1* Balkan express pt. 2*
(B-Side)
Antique* National geographic* What about those bushfires, Mark?* High Life & Hard Times in Kreuzberg* A tennis-playing tourist (dedicated to fame)* Saber
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