Kippenberger unplugged! Martin Kippenberger skipped out on this world after just 44 years - in 1997, the art world's flamboyant enfant terrible, one of Germany's most famous painters and best known for his biting provocations and prolific output, died of the consequences of his equally prolific alcohol consumption. In 1978, Kippenberger moved to Berlin, launched "Kippenbergers Büro" (together with his future gallerist Gisela Capitain) and became the managing director of Kreuzberg's seminal venue SO36 where he proceeded to confuse the local punks with acts like Red Krayola, Scritti Politti, Kleenex or Kevin Coyne. His own band Luxus (featuring Christine Hahn of Malaria, among others) released a limited edition single in 1979, available in homeopathic quantities. In subsequent years, he cranked out a steady stream of further singles, a. o. with fellow painter Albert Oehlen. Kippenberger's not so secret love and passion, however, was swing music - expansive, and possibly pompous, big band jazz - and traces of this have found their way onto a Golden Kot Quartett release, which lists Kippenberger as its drummer. Yuppi Du, on the other hand, makes the most of his Dadaist humour, while several versions of Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee pay tongue-in-cheek homage to Joseph Beuys. Now, give or take three decades later, Edition Kröthenhayn releases the surviving works of Kippenberger and his friends on CD and vinyl. Expect 60 minutes of music: jazz, noise and obscure sound experiments squeezed into a limited, hand-numbered (1000 copies) 10" vinyl box containing three records and a book or an equally limited CD box featuring a 72-page book (english/gernan). Both editions come replete with a slip lid box and banderole and are prime examples of luxurious, high-quality bookbinding. In addition, essays and writing by Max Dax (Spex), Wolfgang Müller (Die Tödliche Doris) and Frieder Butzmann are accompanied by many previously unpublished - and unseen - photographs.
Tracklist
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee
Scheiß Schuhe
New York - Auschwitz
Yuppi Du
Rio Clamoso Part I
Rio Clamoso Part II
Bang Bang
September In The Rain
I Remember You
Cheek To Cheek
The Song Is You
Autumn In New York
Old Devil Moon
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee (Für Erwachsene)
Pretty Good
Falsch Verbunden
The Way
The Way Out
Knocking For Jazz
The Alma Song
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee (Für die Jugend)


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Kippenberger unplugged! Martin Kippenberger skipped out on this world after just 44 years - in 1997, the art world's flamboyant enfant terrible, one of Germany's most famous painters and best known for his biting provocations and prolific output, died of the consequences of his equally prolific alcohol consumption. In 1978, Kippenberger moved to Berlin, launched "Kippenbergers Büro" (together with his future gallerist Gisela Capitain) and became the managing director of Kreuzberg's seminal venue SO36 where he proceeded to confuse the local punks with acts like Red Krayola, Scritti Politti, Kleenex or Kevin Coyne. His own band Luxus (featuring Christine Hahn of Malaria, among others) released a limited edition single in 1979, available in homeopathic quantities. In subsequent years, he cranked out a steady stream of further singles, a. o. with fellow painter Albert Oehlen. Kippenberger's not so secret love and passion, however, was swing music - expansive, and possibly pompous, big band jazz - and traces of this have found their way onto a Golden Kot Quartett release, which lists Kippenberger as its drummer. Yuppi Du, on the other hand, makes the most of his Dadaist humour, while several versions of Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee pay tongue-in-cheek homage to Joseph Beuys. Now, give or take three decades later, Edition Kröthenhayn releases the surviving works of Kippenberger and his friends on CD and vinyl. Expect 60 minutes of music: jazz, noise and obscure sound experiments squeezed into a limited, hand-numbered (1000 copies) 10" vinyl box containing three records and a book or an equally limited CD box featuring a 72-page book (english/gernan). Both editions come replete with a slip lid box and banderole and are prime examples of luxurious, high-quality bookbinding. In addition, essays and writing by Max Dax (Spex), Wolfgang Müller (Die Tödliche Doris) and Frieder Butzmann are accompanied by many previously unpublished - and unseen - photographs.
Tracklist
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee
Scheiß Schuhe
New York - Auschwitz
Yuppi Du
Rio Clamoso Part I
Rio Clamoso Part II
Bang Bang
September In The Rain
I Remember You
Cheek To Cheek
The Song Is You
Autumn In New York
Old Devil Moon
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee (Für Erwachsene)
Pretty Good
Falsch Verbunden
The Way
The Way Out
Knocking For Jazz
The Alma Song
Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee (Für die Jugend)


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Deaf Music: Die Tödliche Doris in signs and gestures
In November 1998, Wolfgang Müller, founder of „Die Tödliche Doris“, decided to re-release the band’s sought-after and long unavailable first vinyl LP. However, not as sound, but as a gesture: Sign language interpreters Dina Tabbert and Andrea Schulz translated and reshaped the lyrics and music of “ ” using nothing but signs and gestures. The result of this transmutation is a ‘soundless’ music, expressed entirely within and through the body, gestures, movements, interaction and facial expressions.
In November 1998, many hearing-impaired people – and an equal amount of those who could hear just fine - made their way to the Prater der Berliner Volksbühne to witness this process as part of a series of events called ‘Gehörlose Musik’ (music for the deaf or ‘soundless music’), initiated by “Freunde guter Musik” (friends of good music).
Now this DVD brings the music of this legendary, long unavailable LP from 1981 back to life – in the guise of gestures, signs, interaction and movement.
And the result is no dance, no performance, no music – it constitutes a new form of art defying conventional definition.
Besides its main feature, this hand-numbered DVD (available in a limited edition of 1000) also contains an interview with Wolfgang Müller of “Die Tödliche Doris” as well as a 48-pages book with writing and photographs.
Tracklist
01. Stümmel mir die Sprache
02. Posaunen der Liebe
03. Der Tod ist ein Skandal
04. Panzerabwehrfaust
05. Wie still es im Wald ist
06. Sie werden nicht beobachtet
07. Haare im Mund
08. M. Röck: Rhythmus im Blut
09. Kavaliere
10. fliegt schnell laut summend
11. Robert
12. Über-Mutti
13. In der Pause

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The action art of Hermann Nitsch from past to present
Actions 1962–2003 (1 DVD-PAL) plus a CD containing recordings from the Burgtheater performance 2005.
Hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies. The packaging consists of a slip lid box with banderole, containing a 80 pages book with photos and texts.
Disputed and celebrated: Hermann Nitsch, Actionist and painter, composer and stage designer. He is one of the most renowned Austrian artists of today and nevertheless still divides the art world as before.
Nitsch belongs beside Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler to the most important main actors of Viennese Actionism. At the beginning of the sixties he carried out his first ‘Actions’ in Vienna, which involved several trials and three terms of imprisonment. His main work, the "Orgy Mystery Theatre", inspired by Greek mythology, as well as by Antonin Artaud or Sigmund Freud, has been introducing, building up and carrying on all art forms since this time.
On the DVD there is a 4-hour overview of all ‘Actions’ of 1962–2003, as well as an interview from 2005. The 80-page book (German/English) with a text by Florian Schreiner and Details:
Package: box / book, 80-pages / dvd / cd
Edition: Limited to 1000 copies, hand-numbered
Content: main feature + interview
Running-time: approx. 4 hours

Audio-Language: German
Subtitles: German / English / French
Format: PAL, 4:3, colour
Audio-Format: Stereo (MP2/AC3)
Region: 0 (all regions)
Age: 18
numerous photos explains the theoretical basis of Nitsch’s work. The CD contains recordings of the 122nd ‘Action’ from the castle theatre Vienna.

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