‘WÄHREND DER ABSCHAFFUNG DES DENKENS’
‘It is the banality of present-day popular music — a banality relentlessly controlled in order to make it saleable — which brands that music with its crucial trait. That trait is vulgarity. We might almost suspect that this is the most avid concern of the audience, and the maxim of their musical mentality is indeed Brecht’s line: “But I … don’t want to be human! Any musical reminder of themselves, of the doubtfulness and possible uplifting of their own existence, will embarrass them. That they are really cut off from their potential is the very reason why it infuriates them to be reminded by art.’ — THEODOR W. ADORNO
Le Début
Author / Composition / Editorial / Performance
DIENJE / ROUGH TRADE / WARNER/CHAPPELL
