Artist: Widukind
Title: Widukind
Genre: Post-NeoFolk
Release Date: 9th November 2011
Label: Silbenstreif
Album Review
WIDUKIND is a project of Carsten Klatte (La Casa Del Cid, Project Pitchfork), who sees his project more than a mere music, the whole concept is covered in the 100 pages of an essay accompanying the release. In “short”, he sees it as a social statue... (loosely translated) “’Widukind’ refers to itself, in the sense that a German-language and ideas will be processed on German stereotypes, intends to present as fact but not nationally, but under the auspices of cultural policy understood in a European ideas’ Pansophical context. For the purpose of the expanded concept of art as a medium, ‘Widukind’ is of direct democratic communication, freedom of expression and presentation of development, which promotes the artist and the viewer, confronted by free valuation and indirectness, with itself.” A statue and a process which through sound, music, images and so on purposes to facilitate and provoke a process in the listener mostly in questioning the concept of freedom, it also purposes to be an attack on the materialism of society, to be a response to a dream and an illusion of revenge on the wreckage of passing time. It claims to be a conscience and inner soul of a man.
The opening track ‘Internationalsozialismus’ for instance employs a series of speech samples of international politics to expose the truth that is hidden in plain sight and that at some point we chose not to see, while ‘Krieger’ touches on freedom and how it can be accomplished by the courage never to give up so that in the end everything was worthwhile. Listening to ‘Parole’ leaves a bitter feeling in my mouth. Not because it’s a bad track but it reminds of those glorifying New Year’s speeches of our government’s leaders. With all that has happened in the past year these merely sound like a bad joke. If there were gods, how do you think their thoughts would be about the creature called human? On ‘Tanz’, a waltz between dimensions, one of them is expressing his about the human nature, about its insignificance, its part in the universe, and its inability to care about anyone else than himself. Musically, the samples, even brass band sound as if in a circus or town fair, and the half-full recited and/or chanted lyrics, howling wolves, a cabaret-like piano and so on invoke an atmosphere, at times creepy, weird and cinematic.
WIDUKIND’s first effort has not promised to be an easy journey but one to hurt you, confuse to clarify... and so on. So it is an ambitious undertaking not only where it concern music but also regarding its philosophy.
Tracklist
01. Internationalsozialismus 05:50
02. Krieger - 04:00
03. Expedition - 05:32
04. Parole - 06:34
05. Götter - 04:15
06. Licht - 04:10
07. Metropol - 02:42
08. Salik - 05:05
09. Tanz - 06:10
10. Schein - 04:47
11. Soldat - 03:22
Licht (Video)
Line-up
Carsten Klatte
Yve Darksound
Websites
https://www.facebook.com/Widukinder/ http://www.widukinder.de
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 9
Sound: 9
Total: 9 / 10
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