Neo-folk - will your conscience let you listen?
Posted by: jcs_smith on 13 May 2008
I've been listening to a fair amoun t of neofolk lately, especially the folk noir, folk metal and martial industrial end of the spectrum. Bands like Sol Invictus, Current 93, Death in June, Bain Wolfkind, The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud, Der Blutarsch, even Laibach, although I'm not sure if you could call them that. What bothers me about the music is that some of the people have been involved in some pretty unsavoury political ideas and have recorded with some people with pretty sick ideas, like Boyd Rice. Of course in print they always distance themselves from those ideas and point out that they have worked with people of the opposite political persuasions.
Anyway the work that uses samples of german records from the 30's and 40's sounds amazing but it has this german text on it, which German not being one of my languages I can't understand. Maybe I'm being paranoid but it makes me feel uneasy. Music doesn't just have to soothe, it can be there to generate other emotions. This is pretty sophisticated stuff. It's not like Skrewdriver. I'm told it's not lyrically like that but I'm not sure. Can anyone put my mid at rest?
Anyway the work that uses samples of german records from the 30's and 40's sounds amazing but it has this german text on it, which German not being one of my languages I can't understand. Maybe I'm being paranoid but it makes me feel uneasy. Music doesn't just have to soothe, it can be there to generate other emotions. This is pretty sophisticated stuff. It's not like Skrewdriver. I'm told it's not lyrically like that but I'm not sure. Can anyone put my mid at rest?
quote:Originally posted by jcs_smith:
many of them do have links with left wing groups and they do make amazing music.
Amazing music is too foggy for my taste.
A lot watch tv and think it's amazing.
When you say you like blues and jazz and they ask you how you can spend your time listen to that "niggers' stuff" there's something wrong going on.
Believe me or not but they hate me because every day i give my good morning to the african girl that bend and clean the floor around my machine.
That's the job my white grandmother did for 30 years.
Bending and cleaning floors with a cloth.
A couple of weeks ago they killed a boy in Verona (Romeo, Giulietta and the happy lot) beacuse of his hair.
This is a Boyd Rice designed t-shirt:
Make a search under "social darwinism" and read.
Of course someone (the pope f.e.) dig in the guano and come out with creationism as the "anti fascist" theory.
A dog that bites tail but that's not important when you can teach sheeps clapping on national live channel.
I feel vomit at the higher level of my throat.
Goodnight.