Circle of Sig-Tiu

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Circle of Sig-Tiu
General information
origin Bingen (Germany)
Genre (s) punk
founding 1984
resolution 1988
Last occupation
singing
 Josef Maria Klumb
guitar
 Siggi Grampe
guitar
 Raymond Plummer

Circle of Sig-Tiu was a German punk band that was founded in Bingen around 1984/85 . The band emerged in 1984 from the predecessor group Aus-98, which in 1983 released the self-produced single Everything falls / black ravens . Core members were singer Josef Maria "Jay Kay" Klumb , rhythm guitarist Raymond Plummer and lead guitarist Siggi Grampe, while the bassists and drummers were exchanged several times. The group is also important because its founding members Klumb and Plummer turned away from punk after the end of the Circle of Sig-Tiu and others, some of them very successful, but also because of a presumed proximity to right-wing extremismcontroversial projects such as Forthcoming Fire , Weissglut , Von Thronstahl or The Days of the Trumpet Call raised.

history

The band made their debut in 1985 with the LP Feuer + Asche (Sonic Records), on which both pieces from the Aus 98 single were recycled, and released on the sampler Wie Lange noch? the song desertion . In 1985 the group produced a sampler entitled Kulturschockattacke (published in 1986), on which punk and hardcore bands from the near and far area (e.g. WKZ from Ludwigshafen and Rabatz from Bonn ) could be heard. The second part, which was based on the same concept, followed two years later. In 1986 the second LP Signs of Time was released (again on Sonic), which even led to a review in the BRAVO .

With the Europe-wide explosion of the hardcore scene in the mid / late 1980s, the band's activities shifted from the more rural Bingen to other venues that were highly frequented at the time, such as B. Geislingen .

In 1987 bassist Hüsseyn Eksi founded his own label, EXs Records, on which the EP Signals on Tiusday and the last LP We Come with Love but Not for Peace were released. On the last two releases, Christian-mythologically inspired texts such as Stay by My Side (Jesus) and Dear Lord played a major role, which also earned the group some criticism. In the liner notes of the LP, Klumb describes his critics as reactionary masses and stylizes himself as a misunderstood figure of light. In general, the group did not seem to be a real unity, but rather a means to an end to stage Klumb, who wrote almost all of the texts himself. Clear indications of this are (in addition to the text accompanying the LP) the frequent line-up changes and the fact that musicians who played along but did not belong to the band were not listed as band members even on the record covers, but were shown on small separate photos.

In 1988 Klumb broke up the band and released a solo LP entitled And All Your Glamor Will Turn into Dust on the punk label Suppenkazpers Noize Imperium . On this musically very versatile album there was virtually nothing left of the lyrical doom and gloom of the band's first two LPs, instead they dealt with everyday topics such as women, parties, lovesickness and the like. In the accompanying text there is a reference to Klumb's volume of poetry with the programmatic title Beyond All World and Time , which one or the other was to follow later.

1990 Klumb reported back with the group Forthcoming Fire . His collaboration with Werner Symanek , owner of the VAWS publishing house , which is classified by the protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia , is viewed critically by some scene observers. They are accused of wanting to influence the black scene with nationalist and social Darwinist ideas. Various activities moved Klumb not only in the sights of the protection of the constitution, but also in the various anti-fascist groups, which addressed right-wing tendencies in the dark wave scene in lectures and prevented performances by Forthcoming Fire and Klumb's other projects Von Thronstahl and Preussak .

In 1991 the songs Golden Calf and Silent Dreams appeared on the Noisegate sampler , in 1995 Virus and the Aus-98 title Schwarze Raben on the sampler Godfathers of German Gothic II brought out by Klumb , whereby the vocals at Virus "were subsequently doubled again" is. In 2007 the compilation Testamentum was published by VAWS, which gives an overview of the years 1980–1988 and contains album and sampler pieces as well as unpublished songs by Circle of Sig-Tiu and Aus-98.

Music style and lyrics

Circle of Sig-Tiu played a mix of dark wave and hardcore ; Plummer describes them as a kind of crossover punk band, Klumb describes them to Stigmata magazine as an early "punk-goth-metal band" and writes in the booklet to Godfathers of German Gothic II that the band went through "different decades", " starting with POSITIV-PUNK and GOTHIC , through hardcore punk to hard rock'n roll and almost metallic sounds ”. On the Guts of Darkness page, on the other hand, their beginnings in hardcore and the later music in Gothic Rock are located, on Sturmzeit.net the original music is referred to as darker punk, which is increasingly turning to other genres and Gothic-Metal and New-Wave - Aspects (the actual Gothic Metal , however, only emerged after the band had ended).

In the lyrics of the band, Klumb dealt “specifically with the fall and decay of civilization”, whereby according to Ingo Taler he “used metaphors as messages instead of clear statements”. With the treatment of the decline of Western civilization, the subject of chaos was thematized in a way that was unusual for punk bands, and Klumb's fascination for mysticism shone through in his lyrics. Because of their symbolism, Lars Andersen's group was described by the newspaper Junge Freiheit Circle of Sig-Tiu as an " occult - trashy band". Sig and Tiu are old Germanic runes that are now mainly used in the neo-Nazi scene (e.g. on Thor Steinar clothing ). The Z in the song title Black Ravens on the Aus 98 single resembled a wolf tang . A symbol was emblazoned on record covers, labels and the jackets of the band members, which is similar to a swastika , but is also comparable to the logo of the anarcho-punk band Crass . Nazi aesthetics were not uncommon in punk bands of the period, however, and in the late 1980s, Pieces by Circle of Sig-Tiu began appearing on punk and hardcore samplers such as Wie Lange noch? ( Double A 1985) and Life is a Joke Vol. 3 (1987, Weird System ) of clearly anti-fascist companies. Nevertheless, the collective of authors Ingo Taler assumes that the message of the song But No One Cries could "be interpreted as an anti-Semitic plea". The "swan with the bleeding wound" in the song could be " ruled as a symbol for a 'sick Germany'" "by ' calves of gold ', the idol of the Israelites in the form of wealth and power." Because of Klumb's later statements, it was “not an absurd interpretation”, and the posthumous publication Testamentum at VAWS from 2007 proves “[t] he connection of Circle Of Sig-Tiu to the extreme right ”.

Discography

  • 1985: Fire + Ashes (Sonic)
  • 1986: What's Harder than Live? (Live album on cassette , no label)
  • 1987: Signs of Time (Sonic)
  • 1987: Signals on Tiusday ( EP , EXs Records)
  • 1987: We Come with Love but Not for Peace (EXs Records)
  • 1987: Z Siege (Split EP with Cólera , Dunkle Tage and WDM, Bunker Musik)
  • 2006: Testamentum ( compilation album , VAWS )

Sampler contributions

  • Desertion on how much longer? (1985, Double A Records)
  • But Every Sunday Morning on 1984 the Fourth (1990, New Wave Records)
  • Golden Calf and Silent Dreams on Noisegate (1991, in-house production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Godfathers of German Gothic II , 1995, Sub Terranean.
  2. ↑ a b c Sturmzeit.net - Circle of Sig-tiu Bio .
  3. ↑ Stigmata.name: The Days of the Trumpet Call ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ VON THRONSTAHL . ... busy rat people dominating the scene ... .
  5. ↑ a b c Circle of Sig-Tiu ›Testamentum .
  6. ↑ a b 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. 169 .
  7. ↑ JungeFreiheit.de: "I wanted this storm". Retrieved November 26, 2018 .