Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo by Thomas Rabsch
Articles & 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
Seele Brennt Archive 
I am on my second listen now, and I am in complete awe.
Thank you, your reviews and comments were wonderful. I wish I were that eloquent, but all i can say is this album is everything I wanted it to be, and so much more. This is my album of the year. I don’t need to listen to any new music for a while.
Thank you, everyone for wonderful comments and conversation. I am rushing, so I apologize for not responding in detail. New post on the main page, from RAI radio in Rome. Tx Irene, for A Quiet Life. Wish the sound was better but .. SIgh….
here’s a song which is not on the cd, only on the vinyl (can’t wait to get that, too. for now i have only the cd) and a few words from blixa concerning the concept they used for the promotional photos. plus some of the photos they used for inspiration. i made a quick translation of blixa’s text, hope it’s not full of mistakes:
http://www.sentireascoltare.com/news/5220/still-smiling-un-brano-inedito-dal-vinile-le-foto-promozionali-e-le-parole-di-bl.html
“Berlin, 29.04.2013
I was thinking about black and white. I wanted something that seemed old, that recalled the origins of photography. Seeing that a photographer from Austria had once taken a portrait of me using a camera with collodion wet plates, I thought I could contact him and he would take a double portrait – risky work: we would have had the possibility to take only a few photographs and one of them had to be the right one. In the end this proved to be too expensive. We went back to digital photography. Thomas Rabsch is a photographer from Cologne with whom I’ve worked many times. I knew he would like the idea and he would be able to adapt it to digital photography. Ever since I’ve contacted him I had many ideas: photographs of the first spiritists, of ectoplasms, of ghosts, of mediums in a trance. I was especially fascinated by the idea of a double portrait of ectoplasms. During my sleepless nights I added the cone hats and voilà. We took the photos especially in my kitchen, in Berlin. Once all the spiritist elements were completed (including my four-year-old daughter Anna dancing like a ghost) we got out of the house; from the occult to the magic (Berlin-Mitte), a tour around the block: empty spaces, courtyards, autumn leaves. With the cone hats, everything seemed to make sense, dwarfs immersed in an adventure.
(Blixa Bargeld)”
and “a quiet life” last night in rome:
There probably is not much of a chance they’ll make it to the States for some shows, but one must live in hope.
I don`t remember finding in the archive a translation of this interview with Blixa for the Vienna Academy of Poetry: http://sfd.at/datenpool/pressecho/1994_08_profil.pdf. If there is such a translation, I would be grateful if you could point it out to me. Thank you!
I have been reading this wonderful site quietly for the past two months, and it’s just such a wonderful place for us Blixa admirers.
I am looking for info regarding the upcoming live shows, but can’t find any. Is it still on?
From Teardo’s Facebook (and earlier on this site):
07 May – Roma, Circolo degli Artisti
09 May – Milano, Alcatraz
10 May – Moncalieri (Torino), Audiodrome
11 May – Bologna, Senza Filtro
European dates this fall.