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Barbez | Barbez
Past-Present Avant-Garde
CD, Black Freighter
Tekst: Sven Schlijper
Publicatiedatum: 01 december 2002
Some years ago, I discovered the beauty of Weill and Brecht's operas Die Dreigroschenoper(The Threepenny Opera) and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny). Also appreciative of Tom Waits and Belgian band Moondog Jr.'s film score for Sunrise, the earlier twentieth century music certainly struck a nerve in me. Even David Bowie tried his able hand at a Weill/Brecht piece on his 7" EP Baal.
It's 2002 and Mr. Waits still strolls around in nightclubs and dodgy diners, barns and lowlife dumps — or at least he makes us believe so, rather convincingly. There is, however, something new and old at the same time. This phenomonal act is called Barbez. From NYC they bring us Weill-ian compositions with a touch of avant-garde, noise, and vaudeville/nightclub attitude. Their self-titled album contains two songs by Weill and Brecht, but you'd have a hard time pointing them out, as the material is an organically flowing entity of its own with a lot of different directions and faces, but firmly grounded in the Weill vocabulary. Folk traditionals pass alongside a cover of the Residents.
Belgian bands like DAAU and the above-mentioned Moondog Jr. come to mind, but there are also instances of post-rock with a folk or jazz tint, reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor!, or, even briefly, some Sigur Rós. Barbez is all over the place: eclectic, experimental, entertaining, full of brilliance and panache. Barbez as an example of Weill past-present avant-garde is highly, very highly recommended.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/barbez/barbez-2101/2101/
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