Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo

Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo by Thomas RabschBlixa Bargeld Teho Teardo by Thomas RabschArticles & Interviews with Blixa and Teho in Italian. (Use Google translator).
Teho Teardo e Blixa Bargeld: la musica d’autore viaggia tra Roma e Berlino
Teho Teardo e Blixa Bargeld presentano Still Smiling, disco e tour

The new album, Still Smiling, is available through Teho’s website.
See previous post: Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo – Still Smiling  (April 10, 2013)

Still Smiling – What If (Teho Teardo e Blixa Bargeld)

Alone with the Moon (Tiger Lillies cover, from Still Smiling)

Updated May 2, 2013

49 comments

  1. a quick update:

    – short review in english
    http://www.adequacy.net/2013/06/teho-teardo-and-blixa-bargeld-still-smiling/

    – the first german interview (berliner morgenpost, may 31st. with a nice photo included 🙂 )
    http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/berlin-kultur/article116679811/Blixa-Bargeld-macht-jetzt-eine-Art-Kammermusik.html

    there’s also a bunch of reviews in italian, they’re all (extremely) positive (both the album and the concert reviews). i didn’t forget about the promised translations of the italian interviews, hopefully i’ll have some time to do that soon(ish).

    1. Thank you, Irene. I appreciate the comments and updates. I’ve got personal and family stuff going on so I’m not able to post anything substantive.

      *hugs* and huge thanks to all who take the time to stop by.

    2. Irene, thank you for the links. I thought I responded earlier but I guess I didn’t.

      Thank you for offering the Italian interview translations. I appreciate whatever anyone can do since we have so few available translators.

      Thanks again for comment. My apologies for not getting back sooner.

      Morgan

    2. When I saw the young girl in the artwork I thought it might be, and Blixa does say in the interview that his daughter was photographed during the photo shoot. I think this is very sweet. I had an interesting thought just now: would she be Anna Bargeld or Anna Emmerich? Bargeld-Zhu? Oy, the places the mind goes when you let it.

      2. How very Blixa of him..to give his daughter his stage name!
        Is there a cooler name than Anna Bargeld ?
        🙂

      3. How cute and how Blixa, that Anna is a Bargeld.It really sounds great. Great. Image, vision, view, vision, an end. So right. See you again in the joy and the mayhem.

  4. I’ve listened to the album now a dozen times or more, and I’m still not capable of saying anything much more coherent about it other than that I find it fucking brilliant, and I can’t stop listening to it. This collaboration has yielded a wonderful result, and I’m deeply touched by it. It’s haunting and beautiful, funny at times, very sad and melancholic at others, the lyrics are brilliant, the music and instrumentation somehow seem to be designed to directly attach themselves to a certain receptor in my brain, I don’t know how else to describe it. Anyway. One of the most wonderful works of music I have heard in a long time, and it’s getting better and better with each time I listen to it. It’s addictive, really.

    I also find it great that it elicited such a wonderful and lively conversation here at SB 🙂

    1. Yes, there are layers and layers like a cake. There are different aromas and flavors to enjoy, and each bite delivers a different delight. I too am enjoying the excited conversation. Here where I live, with the people I know, so few are even interested in exploring outside the worn and tired realms of music, art, movies. Yet I delight in the unknown. It is great to know some, even if only virtually, people who delight in something that is not pedestrian and always the same.

      In that same spirit, I just bought the new album by Alan Bishop, also known as Alvarius B, former lead singer of Sun City Girls. It is called Invisible Hands. Alan plays with a number of Egyptian musicians in Cairo in the aftermath of the Tahrir Square protests, and the music and words are great so far. He is another song writer who is capable of stringing together words that are beguiling, shocking, enigmatic, and thought provoking. This is also definitely not radio friendly pabulum. Plus, they made this album twice: once with Alan singing in English and the second time with Egyptian singers singing the same songs in Arabic (which I have yet to track down as it is not on the CD I purchased). Maybe someone here might enjoy.

      Saying that, I am still drawn back to Still Smiling, and I find myself singing bits of various songs everyday, over and over. For a couple of days, I just had “What if in paradise, there are no huris waiting? What if but all you get are grapes/ succulent grapes? What if it is all a mistake in the translation? Or wondering if metaphors and kisses still work in another language.

      Plus, I also really love the two minute soundscape at the beginning of Axolotl. It is a great example of the beauty of this collaboration. Plus, the screaming interlude in the middle is lovely with the strings.

      Really, who else composes lyrics like that right now in contemporary music? Not many.

      Apologies for my long ramble.

      1. Speaking of contemporary music, you are probably familiar with the Balanescu quartet, but in case you aren`t, here is something to start with:

        Or another one for those with a melancholic DNA 🙂

      1. What a beautiful piece of music. Thank you.
        I’m very inspired by Still Smiling..

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