Weena Morloch
| Weena Morloch | |
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 Weena Morloch during a live noise performance, 2013. |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electronic music , noise , electro-pop , rock (from 2011) |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | www.weena-morloch.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Alexander Kaschte | |
| former members | |
singing |
Alisa Kaschte |
singing |
Annabelle Kaschte |
Weena Morloch (originally McBeth ) is a music project founded by Alexander Kaschte ( Samsas Traum ) in 1998.
history
Weena Morloch was founded in 1998 and initially started as a noise project in different versions. While on Dandelion ... a bizarre story was read out to a background noise, Alexander Kaschte mixed on Art-X =? Synthesizer noises with samples from horror films. The complete work, consisting of twelve songs, some of which are very similar, he described as "Horror Death Industrial" without being related to the genre Death Industrial . Both the demo and the debut album had a circulation of 500 and sold very poorly with the fan base of Samsa's dream, who had hoped for more from Alexander Kashte's new side project. At first, Kaschte surprised his audience when, at concerts, people dressed as athletes, robots and flowers came on stage and threw chocolate coins into the crowd.
The EP Trauma 7 , like Kashte's side project MIIME, was initially rejected by the record company, but was used on the bonus CD of the 2003 Samsas dream album Tineoidea . Except for a few parts, however, the music comes very much closer to that of his main project and moves away from the noise roots.
The album Epanalepsis , which was only available as part of the one-against-all box from Samsa's dream until March 2012 , contains recordings that a. in the period of art-X =? have arisen. In the context and as part of the Samsas Dream DVD Box, the Art X =? remastered and visualized by a VJ team.
On July 22nd, 2008 it was announced on the Samsas-Traum-Website that Alexander Kaschte was in the middle of the production of a new Weena-Morloch album, which was originally supposed to be released before the end of the year. The album should contain twelve songs and conceptually tie in with KadaverKomplex . However, the record company initially refused to release the album entitled Amok , as the title track of the same name deals with the Amok run in Emsdetten and it was feared that this could lead to a sales boycott. On December 31, 2008 it was announced on the Samsas-Traum-Website that a single from the album Amok should not be released until October 2009 at the earliest. Amok was released on July 1, 2011 at the same time as the Samsas dream album Instructions for being dead . The album consists of eleven titles and deals, among other things, with the night of death in Stammheim from the point of view of Irmgard Möller as well as acts of violence committed by children and young people, in particular the rampage in Emsdetten.
The last concert by Weena Morloch and Samsas Traum took place on October 1st, 2011. However, both projects should continue and focus on studio recordings in the future. Shortly afterwards, on December 2, 2011, the remix album .Käfer.Maden.Würmer.Spinnen was released. , which was split into a Samsas Traum CD and a Weena Morloch CD and consisted mainly of remixes. Before that, there was an online campaign by Kaschte where fans could recommend other bands to edit the pieces for the remix album.
On March 9, 2012, the compilation Terror über alles - Das Weena Morloch Manifesto was released , which, consisting of four CDs, contains the band's complete discography up to 2011 ( excluding Amok ). At the same time, live recordings from Bochum, Cologne and Vienna, which cover all the pieces played on the tour, are included in the compilation, with the exception of Disko-Vampir . The recording from Vienna of this piece was made available for download in advance in .WAV and .MP3 format, as Alexander Kaschte did not want the recording on the CD due to some text errors.
Project name
The name Weena Morloch originated from a mistake by Alexander Kashte. He held the "Weena" and the "Morlochs" for the two warring races from HG Wells The Time Machine and combined them into a first and last name. In fact, the memory had deceived him; the names of the peoples were "Eloi" and "Morlock", and "Weena" the young Eloi girl whom the protagonist tries to save. Having pointed out the mistake, Alexander Kaschte changed the official history of the band's name and invented the girl Weena Morloch, who drowned in the lake at the age of 12. On KadaverKomplex as well as on Trauma-7- EP and on Amok there is a song that deals with the band name ( Weena Morlock , Wasser , Ein Lied, Dich zu kettle ).
Emsdetten rampage
After the rampage in Emsdetten , the project received a certain amount of attention in the press when it became known that the perpetrator Bastian B. on his self-portrayals on the Internet had the text line “Whoever crosses my path again has ten bullets in the face.” From the Weena -Morloch song "Ball in the face (9mm)" quoted. He also uses the song Stammheim (fight) in one of his self-made videos . This contains several text samples from the film Stammheim , which deals with the trial of the RAF terrorists.
The ballad Amok on the album of the same name refers explicitly to this rampage. In it, the Emsdetten civil society is accused of having failed and was therefore complicit in the act.
Discography
Studio albums
- Art-x =? (2001; Trisol )
- Carcass Complex (2002; Trisol)
- Amok (2011; Trisol)
- Hello, we are the Morlochs (2015; Trisol)
Other publications
- Dandelion and His Lady of Sorrow (1997; in-house production), demo, published under the project name McBeth
- Trauma 7 (2003; Trisol), MCD, as part of the limited bonus CDs for Samsa's Dreams Tineoidea and Arachnoidea
- Best Of (2004; Trisol), Best-Of, as part of the limited bonus CD for Samsa's Dream End Station
- Epanalepsis (2005; Trisol), as part of the double DVD / double CD box for Samsa's Dream One Against All
- Art-x =? feedbacked (2005; Trisol), DVD, as part of the double DVD / double CD box for Samsa's dream one against all
- A song to kill you (2010), 5 "vinyl, single from the album Amok
- .Bugs, maggots, worms, spiders. (2011; Trisol), compilation with remixes, new songs and other rarities, split into a CD with Samsas-Traum- and a CD with Weena-Morloch-pieces
- Terror above everything - The Weena Morloch Manifesto (2012; Trisol), a complete collection of previous Weena Morloch works
- Das Buch der toten Kinder (2014), book by Alexander Kaschte with accompanying audio book CD
- We'll rise from the dead (2017), 7 "vinyl with two songs from the upcoming album
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEW WEENA MORLOCH - ALBUM! July 22, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2011
- ↑ WEENA MORLOCH-5 " ( Memento from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ WEENA MORLOCH - THE FAREWELL TOUR. myspace.com/weenamorlochofficial, September 2, 2011, accessed September 3, 2011 .
- ^ FAZ: Amok run in Emsdetten "It's hell on earth", November 21, 2006