God is. Gods - for sure

On May 16 and 17 in St. Petersburg and Moscow , the legends of industrial Young Gods .

It is strange, but it seems that soon from the building where the Moscow Theater of the musical under the direction of Mikhail Shvydky is located today, the rebellious spirit that was swirling over the former recreation center named after Gorbunov for almost 20 years. Only those who today changed jackets and jeans to neat costumes will, smiling dreamily, tell the children that there, in the legendary “pink salmon” and in the park surrounding it, the history of Moscow musicja is in treason. Let us leave the same time the epoch-making performances of Alice, DDT and Civil Defense, often ending much more extremely than unauthorized rallies of the zero, and recall the show, which, in the terribly distant 1996, gave the Swiss group under the heretical name The Young Gods . Then it was impossible to imagine that advanced metropolitan fans of extreme music would have to explain why this concert is required to visit: cassettes with the album " Only Heaven " and a video for the industrial anthem " Kissing The Sun ” excited the minds more than a few years later than Zemfira and“ Mummy Troll ”. For nothing that the abrasive guitar cuts that consisted of this music consisted of not from every iron.

"Kissing The Sun"

By the way, the history of the group began with the backwater - or rather, with a fundamental refusal to use guitars. The fact is that both then and now there is only one real guitarist - this is vocalist Franz Traichler. By 1982, he not only took possession of the six -string nurse, but also finally saturated with its capabilities and compositional structures that were in the course of the then rockers. The Swans group, who was not the last role in this disappointment, played in this disappointment-precisely in honor of its mini-album “ Young GOD ” and the new ensemble of Traihler was named, collected in return for the dissolved New Wiwo-Collection, whose name for history no longer matters.

Swans - "Young God"

The second most important circumstance that allowed Franz’s ambitions to be realized, the introduction of a device such as a sampler already today was the musical everyday life. Even three dozen years ago, this device instantly acquired the reputation of the tool for the lazy: as soon as having received it in their hands, the artists easily succumbed to the temptation and turned into compilers. This, of course, did not concern Traichler and his new associates - the drummer of Frank Bano and the electronic worker Cesare Pizzi. Already the first single The Young Gods " Envoye !" (The name with the well -known freeness can be translated as Mayakovskoye “Nate!”) On European listeners a strong impression - no one has heard anything like that in Andegrate experiments.

"Envoye"

Formally genealogy of the Sounty of the Early The Young Gods can be drawn from New York marginal in the range from Swans to Suicide , on the one hand, and the Germans einst ü rzende Neubauten , inspired by the Carlhain, Shtokhausen, on the other. But, unlike contemporaries brought up on punk rock nihilism, Trihler and his comrades played music, as if completely free from rock and rolling myth of cleansing self-destruction. They scooped up inspiration not in the surrounding nightmare, but in the modernist desire to completely re -make the paradigm of modern music.

It is physically not capable of playing all this “living” rock band, even if it is King Crimson.

I must say that the result of this ambitious experiment is impressive today, evidence of this - the debut of the same name of the Swiss album of the same name two years ago. Understand what is cast from - or, rather, cut down - this music, it turns out far from right away. It seems that the tools are the same as usual - a voice, drums, electronic landscapes and guitar passages. They just sound so that it is obvious: it is physically not capable of playing all this “live” rock band, if it is at least King Crimson . But, unlike modern pop innovators like Skrillex, the Traichler fully deconstructed not only the game and sound, but also the composition. The Young Guods was inspired by the works of avant-garde players and did not want to play according to the rules that exist in rock music. They created their own musical language, in which the Craut-Correra Motorika was adjacent to the zoons of Kurt Vail (which the Swiss paid tribute to the whole album), and the Pincludov psychedelia was created on punk-circular guitars prepared with the help of sampler.

"Play Kurt Weill"

Such a description may well scare away from acquaintance with The Young Guods today's audience-no one loves wise men, and in order to promote advanced sound finds into the wide masses, today you need to be a celebrity-scumbag in the manner of Kanye West. But be afraid of the Young There is absolutely nothing to go: as a vocalist and frontman Traichler inherited Jim Morrison rather. True, the shamanistic call to break through “on the other side” this time was expressed in the language not of the rhythm-n-blinker improvisations, but an industrial grinding. By the way, the lyrics of Franz in spirit are quite close precisely by the generation of Woodstock. It is no coincidence that when the musicians returned to the rejected guitars for recording an acoustic album a few years ago, they completed it with a cover for the famous Freedom Richie Hivens , one of the hymns of the legendary festival.

The Young Gods and Richie Hivens play Freedom in 2009

If you return to the entertaining concert in the "hump", then at that moment the Young Guods experienced the peak of their career. Going from French to English and giving their works a slightly more dubious and, so to speak, purposeful structure, they conquered the American public and acquired a cult status on a global scale. It is enough to say that among their admirers there is such a specialist in guitar effects as the guitarist U 2 Edge, and David Bowie, having transformed into the Hero of Industrial Rock on the album “ Outside ” , called the inspirers exactly the Young Gods , not his friend of the Reznore Trent.

Traichler played music free from rock and roll myth of cleansing self-destruction.

Wide popularity was never combined with experimental fuse, and the zero team met by having lost popular love. Trihler, changing the composition of the accompanists, became interested in experiments with embossed landscapes, then released the exemplary rock album “ Super Ready / Fragmente , and then unexpectedly, as already mentioned, decided to rethink old songs in the acoustic format. The last current album is Young GODS " EVERYBODY Knows ” , on which the group returned to the electric sound, went almost unnoticed and sounded so soft that he gave reason to talk about the retirement of veterans retired.

The song "No Land's Man" with Album "EVERYBODY KNES"

But it wasn’t there. The group will come to Russia with a program, which is entirely consisting of songs from the first two albums - the same name and “ l ' eu Rouge ” , that is, with the most daring and extreme numbers. The musicians who are not accustomed to standing still feel the lack of a strong gesture in modern music and understand how fresh their first works sound fresh to this day. But we can only agree-who we are in order to argue with the forever young gods of the industrial rock.

This will look like a Moscow concert