Boyd Rice

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Boyd Rice (* 1956 ) is an American musician from the electronic and industrial scene.

Under the pseudonym NON , he has been releasing bizarre-looking electronic experimental music since 1975, in which sheer noise often alternates with catchy, cheesy melodies. In the same year, at the age of 19, he attracted attention when he presented the then First Lady Betty Ford with a skinned sheep's head and was taken away by the United States Secret Service . The anti-record Pagan Muzak , his first record in 7 "format, was drilled with additional holes. Pagan Muzak was one of the first industrial releases and already anticipated elements of noise and easy listening . It consists exclusively of Endless loops that repeat until the listener removes the needle from the respective groove. On the cover there is a rastered portrait of Rice and the note "playable at any speed", there is So no indication of the speed at which the noise loops should be played. Because of these facts, the album was revolutionary for the time. Through Rough Trade Records in London he came in contact with Daniel Miller , Rice on his then young label Mute Records signed.

His first album Physical Evidence was released in 1982 on Mute Records. In terms of content, the thread is very stretched; the album Might! cites, for example, the book Might is Right , published under the pseudonym Ragnar Redbeard , which Rice lists on his website. On the album Terra Incognita - Ambient Works 1975 - Present , as the name of the album suggests, he plays ambient music.

He starred in several films such as Pearls Before Swine and contributed music to a few, including Grace of My Heart and Gas, Food, Lodging. According to his own statements, he also helped with the selection of surf music for the film Pulp Fiction (he is not mentioned in the credits).

In 2007 Rice exhibited his own paintings for the first time at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York City.

Boyd Rice was married and has a son named Wolfgang.

Influence on pop culture

Boyd Rice's influences on pop culture are manifold, so the metal band Impaled Nazarene used parts of the text and the drum rhythm of NON's Total War in their song Total War - Winter War from the album Suomi Finland, which relates to the winter war from 1939 to 1940 perkele . This NON title was also used by Acheron , Nothingisttrue, Melek-Tha, Death in June and Müllér of Death! covered. The setting of the video This Is the New Shit by Marilyn Manson is clearly based on that of Rice's Osaka performance; Marilyn Manson frontman Brian Hugh "Marilyn Manson" Warner first met Rice in his band, when his band hadn't signed a record deal, and Rice believed he would be successful even then. The Osaka performance is considered legendary among Rice listeners. Introduced by 13 chimes, Wagner music and quotations from Taxi Driver , Rice enters the stage in uniform and with an SS cap. The musicians also uniformed occurring drums easy march rhythm on the Rice the question "Do you want was totally?" (Engl., You want the total war ? ', In reference to Joseph Goebbels ' Sports Palace speech ) aimed at the listener. He confronts the viewer with various questions, such as whether he wants an all-out war, supports the transformation of man into a beast, wants to fight and kill, and is ready to show the world an iron will. Rice does not allow freedom for individual answers. The answer to all these questions is “Yes you want total war!” (English: “Yes, you want total war!”). This is followed by a brief proclamation that human history has always been shaped by the law of the fittest and by wars and murders. Further pieces in this tenor follow, in which a rejection of Christianity is still evident. Rose McDowall sings the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night in a modified form: "Silent war, holy war ..." (English 'Silent War, Holy War ').

criticism

To this day, Boyd Rice is considered an industrial pioneer, but his person is extremely controversial due to his media provocations, satanist and social Darwinist statements and his admiration for people like Adolf Hitler , Alfred Rosenberg or Charles Manson .

Rice is a leading member of the Church of Satan and was friends with its founder, Anton Szandor LaVey . He speaks out against democracy and liberalism, which he regards as ideological abstractions, and recommends writings by Rosenberg, Arthur de Gobineau , Oswald Spengler , Julius Evola and Savitri Devi on his website . Rice uses right-wing extremist symbols and signs . His Osaka performance was clearly based on the aesthetics of National Socialism, and both in connection with the Abraxas Foundation and on his website he uses the wolf tang , which was used by the youth organization of the VSBD / PdA , among others, as a symbol, in a horizontal representation .

At times Rice came into contact with Charles Manson and considered him a friend. Rice demanded Manson's release as a political prisoner and characterized him (with recourse to Carl Gustav Jung ) as a “Wotan type”. but the contact did not last. On a radio show in which he defended Manson, the presenter confronted him with the mother of Sharon Tate , who was murdered by members of the Manson Family .

Together with Nikolas Schreck of Radio Werewolf , who like Rice openly spoke out in favor of Manson's release and published material about Manson, Rice founded the Abraxas Foundation, which Rice described as a fascist - occult think tank and from which he published social Darwinist and esoteric pamphlets, the have been translated into seven languages. The Abraxas Foundation stopped publishing in the mid to late 1990s.

Musical collaboration

Musically he worked with numerous well-known musicians such as Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget . With Douglas Pearce from Death in June , Tony Wakeford also from Death in June and now from Sol Invictus , Michael Moynihan from Blood Axis , he released recordings under the name Boyd Rice & Friends.

With Rose McDowall he released some records under the name Spell, which contained cover versions of well-known pop songs of the 1960s; only the title The Ever Constant Sea is a poem by Rod McKuen , to which McDowall wrote the music. In almost all cases, the focus was on pieces that deal with tragic love or life stories with a fatal outcome for one of the protagonists.

He also produced albums for Ralph Gean and compiled albums with songs by various pop musicians from the 1960s (Album Music for Pussycats ) and an album with Transylvanian marching music from the 1930s .

Discography

  • Pagan Muzak (1975)
  • Knife Ladder / Mode of Infection (1978)
  • Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (with Frank Tovey ; 1980)
  • Boyd Rice (1981)
  • Physical Evidence (1982)
  • Rise EP (1982)
  • Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (1984)
  • Blood & Flame (1987)
  • I'm Just Like You (8 ”) (1989)
  • Music, Martinis and Misanthropy - and Friends (with Douglas Pearce, Michael Moynihan, Rose McDowall, Tony Wakeford and Bob Ferbrache; 1989/1990)
  • Easy Listening for iron youth - The best of NON (1991)
  • In the Shadow of the Sword (1992)
  • Seasons in the Sun (1993)
  • The Monopoly Queen (7 ”) (1994)
  • Might! (1995)
  • Hatesville (1995)
  • Death's Gladsome Wedding (1996)
  • Hatesville (1996)
  • God & Beast (1997)
  • Receive the Flame (1999)
  • The Way I Feel (2000)
  • The Registered Three - Boyd Rice & Friends (Douglas Pearce, Albin Julius; 2002)
  • Wolf Pact - Boyd Rice and Fiends (Douglas Pearce, Albin Julius; 2002)
  • Children of the Black Sun (2002)
  • Terra Incognita - Ambient Works 1975 - Present (2004)
  • Alarm Agents (with Death in June 2004)
  • Scorpion Wind (with Death in June 2007)
  • Going steady with Peggy Moffitt (with Go-Go Giddle Partridge; 2008)
  • The Blackest Curse (album by Integrity ; 2010)

Filmography

  • NON - Total War: Live in Osaka, Japan (1989)
  • Boyd Rice Documentary (Super 8mm film by Joel Haertling) (1994)
  • Pearls Before Swine (1999)
  • The many Moods of Boyd Rice (2002)
  • Boyd Rice & Friends - Baptism by Fire (live) (2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mike Miliard: Bad to the Bone. Truly wicked pissah at MIT . ( Memento of October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Boston Phoenix .
  2. ↑ a b c d Boyd Rice. Paintings (PDF; 123 kB).
  3. ↑ a b Boyd Rice . laut.de
  4. ↑ Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke : Black Sun . Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York University Press, New York, London 2003, ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 , pp. 209 (in English, online [accessed March 8, 2010]).
  5. ^ Non / Boyd Rice: Biography. Mute.com, archived from the original on February 17, 2009 ; accessed on March 8, 2010 (English).
  6. ↑ a b Recommended Reading List .
  7. ↑ a b c Boyd Rice Interview from Blood Book ( Memento June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ a b The Vanishing Point radio program, Adelaide, Australia . April 2003 .
  9. ↑ Paul Friswold: "Non Friction - musical iconoclast Boyd Rice is anything but bland" . ( Memento of October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Saint Louis Riverfront Times , 2000.
  10. ^ A b c Standing in Two Circles: The Collected Works of Boyd Rice .
  11. ↑ a b “The Black Pimp Speaks”. Boyd Rice interviewed via telephone, 2003 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  12. ^ A b My Dinner With Bob Larson from Snake Oil .
  13. ↑ Chris A. Masters: Boyd Rice Interview from. MISANTHROPE .
  14. ↑ a b Boyd Rice Speaks: "Do you Want A Total War?" In: The Fifth Path .
  15. ↑ Nikolas Schreck to Tom Metzger from White Aryan Resistance at Race and Reason .
  16. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 16 .
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Boyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES NON (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956