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Artist:
LES ROBESPIERRES & MELISSA LOGAN
Title:
L'Amerique
Label:
CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.50
Catalog #:
COSR 016CD
'L'Amerique
is a theater soundtrack from a play by
Angela Richter
and
Ted Gaier
which debuted in Hamburg, Germany in March of 2003. The CD features music between punk, chanson and agit-pop by the band
Les Robespierres
(featuring members of
Die Goldenen Zitronen
aka
Golden Lemons
) and
Melissa Logan
(of
Chicks On Speed
) with lyrics in English, German and Spanish and spoken-word passages adapting the likes of
Franz Kafka
,
Eldridge Cleaver
,
Martin Luther King Jr.
and
I.C. Boyle
.
'L'Amerique
is a propaganda operette with explicit political content, moving away from postmodernism, and structured around the topic "America" -- a document of collective intelligence between theater, music and art. The CD comes in very special packaging based on exclusive drawings by the renowned German artist
Daniel Richter
.
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