Liner notes Trespass trio
Like a drumLike in a drumming dream of gunshots and explosions I might be aware of what i have so far not experienced , but by the words of others, through their drumming sense of telling, also when they have become too mutilated to even talk - or write.
And the many cases of evisceration darkens our world in one blink, in one little moment.
My father was once in that drumming dream of gunshots, grenade explosions and other cool stuff - in the midst of it. A terrible frightened 18 year old boy.
I can see him now on the computer screen; happily releaving himself in urban areas; blowing up houses, turning people to dust and silver by a push of a button.
And yes, I can hear him laugh, that roaring, sour laugh that echoed all through my childhood like a mammoth on ecstasy.
But no, he didnt say a word about the war. Did I hate him for not being a better killer?
As the boys - and girls - can kill now - with joyous impunity coming from all over the world, arriving at certain territories chosen for their lovely little sweet games of immense brutality.
Like a drum calling out night and day; the complicity we have to bear with every beat of that bloody drum for being desperate fools of music.
What can we achieve with strings, reeds, skins and sticks?
Except for being ignorant music makers, what are we?
Are we trying to see through the evisceration of our society, but through sounds - an impossible task you might say.
A blind hearing. Bitter strange fruits hanging and swinging from skyscrapers, soon to be demolished together with the olive tress and the palms.
How to make music in the year of 2009? You tell me!
A US general recently said:"..it was there to illuminate the night sky... he was referring to Willie P, the magical white phosphorus guy, going to Falluja, Iraq in November of 2004, setting himself ablaze a thousands of times by burning himself into the bones of children.
Never to stop burning. Another legal weapon of love, he is... coming down from the sky, in a handful of explosive white rain...
O what a wonderful sight that must have been...
And the drums? A father in Gaza says: "It is getting normal for the people to hear the shooting. It ́s like drums now.
Many people are getting injured." And Dr Hafez adds: "They have no mercy, and no morals".
Who have no morals?
Who is he talking about?
Me? You? Or only about THE neoapartheid state per se and its shameless contributors from all over the world?
Well, that ́s extremly sexy, isn ́t?!
Martin Küchen - Lund, April 2009
04.06.2010. 02:01