Berlitz Drama 7"

I first heard this 1982 Dutch single on Jon and Tovah Olson's Inzane podcast show, on a particular installment where they just played slabs of weird 7" singles they found floating around on their travels with Wolf Eyes/Dead Machines. I don't know why I love this one so much, perhaps it's because it's unlike much of the minimal synth/coldwave stuff. These alien, almost metallic twittering birds, a distant prop plane buzzing by, then this screwed up synth line and anguished voice fighting his backing bird bed. The gentle piano outro. Weird stuff. The flip focuses more on that voice than the bizarro environs around it. Enjoy: "Fruhling" (MP3), "Herrmann" (MP3).

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[stfw]

i think this stuff is great!

[david mcdevitt]

Berlitz Drama - fruhling

This sweet bird song~ is the peak of the wider transylvanian soundwave movement of the 2nd half of the 20th century. And exists as a prime motivationer and influencer of the post-contemporary pro-synthesizers. Music is such fresh air, fresh cool air at that, with crisp ground underneath your feet. Dirt crackling in the cold. But unexpected cold. In face everything is unexpected. You never know what will happen.

And oh I feel the heart of this man who sings in this inperceptable language. His soul speaks to me & his sounds speak to me. And my heart is moved in the deeply personal cinematic sense

I can see the cloudless cold sky & the solid sun.

[MISA]

Hello!
It is interested very much.
Please link to this site.
http://drama-animation-free.blogspot.com/

[jasper bishoff]

Hi, i am the composer and performer Berlitz...

www.bishoff.nl click on gallery to see some pictures

[kliko]

and i'm the manager from berlitz!!
o_0