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▀▀▀▄ ARTIST.......: Phantom Ghost ▄▀▀▀
▀▄▄ TITLE.......: Electronic Alcatraz ▄▄▀
▀█▄ SOURCE.....: Vinyl ▄█▀
▄█▀ STYLE......: Electronic ▀█▄
▄▄█▀▀ LABEL.......: Ladomat 2000 ▀▀█▄▄
▄█▀▀ CAT.NR........: LADOMAT 2136-0 ▀▀█▄
▀ QUALITY.........: VBRkbps/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo ▀
▄▀ URL...............: www.lado.de ▀▄
▄ RIP.DATE...........: Feb-26-2005 ▄
█ LENGTH............: 25:35 min █
▄ ■▄ SIZE.............: 38,10 MB ▄■ ▄
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██▓▓ Producer Thies Mynther (keyboarder for ██▓▓
██▓▓ Stella and Superpunk) and singer Dirk von ██▓▓
██▓▓ Lowtzow (known through his band Tocotronic) ██▓▓
██▓▓ celebrate their eerie congeniality with ██▓▓
██▓▓ phantom/ghost. In front of us lies ôTo ██▓▓
██▓▓ Damascusö, their second album after ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôphantom/ghostö (2001), and we better start ██▓▓
██▓▓ at the end there where nothing is written. ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôNothing Is Writtenö, this electronic ██▓▓
██▓▓ softrock-miniopera is a warning to us û even ██▓▓
██▓▓ if it comes much too late: on the way to ██▓▓
██▓▓ Damascus there are no direction signs, no ██▓▓
██▓▓ written instructions which tell us where to ██▓▓
██▓▓ go. Instead we get into a contorted ██▓▓
██▓▓ labyrinth of hallucinated cross references ██▓▓
██▓▓ and surprising associations. The virtual ██▓▓
██▓▓ footnote machine, which doesnÆt belong here ██▓▓
██▓▓ in written form, would lose itself in a ██▓▓
██▓▓ ceaseless room of illusions. But ôNothing Is ██▓▓
██▓▓ Writtenö (Justus K÷hncke helped to produce ██▓▓
██▓▓ this track) could also mean that the ever ██▓▓
██▓▓ popular thrashing vocals so popular today ██▓▓
██▓▓ are missing. So, no electro clash, just a ██▓▓
██▓▓ little Soft Cell debauchery. Von Lowtzow and ██▓▓
██▓▓ Mynther are also much too thin-skinned for ██▓▓
██▓▓ erect, upright 80s gestures. Not for nothing ██▓▓
██▓▓ two songs render homage to the oversensitive ██▓▓
██▓▓ Dandy Yves Saint Laurent, who declared ██▓▓
██▓▓ himself, that he was already born with a ██▓▓
██▓▓ nervous breakdown. At von Lowtzow┤s shy ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôAch!ö in ôBorn with a Nervous Breakdownö ██▓▓
██▓▓ one gets the imprint of a hand thatÆs been ██▓▓
██▓▓ pressed to the forehead far too often à ██▓▓
██▓▓ Life┤s a messà.. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Because of comparable light-shy tension the ██▓▓
██▓▓ Marquis de Myther and the Dark Prince von ██▓▓
██▓▓ Lowtzow take refuge in a nocturnal mysterium ██▓▓
██▓▓ and work themselves up into opioid rites of ██▓▓
██▓▓ self-decomposition. Not only the wonderful ██▓▓
██▓▓ pre-psychedelic ôLaudanumö deals with coils ██▓▓
██▓▓ of dissociation. ôTo Damascusö is also ██▓▓
██▓▓ literally an anti-enlightenment record in ██▓▓
██▓▓ which secrets and glamorous rumours count ██▓▓
██▓▓ more than hard, cold facts. When von Lowtzow ██▓▓
██▓▓ singsôSecretö, it literally resounds out of ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôMy Secret Europeö. ██▓▓
██▓▓ The voice of reason is knocked off in to the ██▓▓
██▓▓ wind and even the stuttering groove seems to ██▓▓
██▓▓ whisper something of the black romance to ██▓▓
██▓▓ us. More about the rhythm: producer Mynther ██▓▓
██▓▓ has artfully synchronized the electronic, ██▓▓
██▓▓ sometimes elegant banging, sometimes ██▓▓
██▓▓ affectionate skipping beat and provided it ██▓▓
██▓▓ with fine nuances and deviances so that he ██▓▓
██▓▓ could make the most of von Lowtzow┤s voice. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Rarely has von Lowtzow been able to make use ██▓▓
██▓▓ of his voice in such an eclectic way û ██▓▓
██▓▓ claustrophobically pressed, then again ██▓▓
██▓▓ sometimes wallowing and open, his voice ██▓▓
██▓▓ alters itself throughout the 9 tracks of the ██▓▓
██▓▓ album. The sing-english seems weirdly ██▓▓
██▓▓ theatrical, soft and over pronounced. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Because of their venturous dramatisation, ██▓▓
██▓▓ the daring multi-layered vocals and the ██▓▓
██▓▓ occasional cello accompaniments the ██▓▓
██▓▓ arrangements become bittersweet ██▓▓
██▓▓ mini-musicals. A certain Pulp- and Scott ██▓▓
██▓▓ Walker-Fixation paves its way without taking ██▓▓
██▓▓ the upper hand. The songs û all composed ██▓▓
██▓▓ together by Mynther and von Lowtzow û are ██▓▓
██▓▓ far too ambiguous and lush to be reduced on ██▓▓
██▓▓ a single formula. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Everything needs to be there in excess! Also ██▓▓
██▓▓ the catchiness doesnÆt get a raw deal: ôMy ██▓▓
██▓▓ Secret Europeö, ôSaint Lawrenceöor ôBorn ██▓▓
██▓▓ with a nervous Breakdownö are real pop songs ██▓▓
██▓▓ and ôSticky Pawsö could become a real hit. ██▓▓
██▓▓ Myther and von Lowtzow have obviously ██▓▓
██▓▓ nothing against exorbitant party-amusement; ██▓▓
██▓▓ phantom/ghost do not linger, as the name ██▓▓
██▓▓ might suggest, in mouldly castle vaults but ██▓▓
██▓▓ rather prefer sweaty discotheques. Their ██▓▓
██▓▓ performances on the stages of this world ██▓▓
██▓▓ often turn into Glitter-Events. Regardless ██▓▓
██▓▓ of all this, tuning in to ôTo Damascusö will ██▓▓
██▓▓ provide the listener with an understanding , ██▓▓
██▓▓ but one from afar. ThatÆs good because a ██▓▓
██▓▓ pop-realism, which tells us how our life is, ██▓▓
██▓▓ troubles us every day already anyway. With ██▓▓
██▓▓ ôTo Damascusö, pop quits the crippled ground ██▓▓
██▓▓ of facts und flies into worlds not yet seen ██▓▓
██▓▓ today. And their inhabitants smile gloomily. ██▓▓
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██▓▓ A1 - Phantom Ghost - Electronic Alcatraz : 06:42 ██▓▓
██▓▓ A2 - Phantom Ghost - Electronic Alcatraz : 05:39 ██▓▓
██▓▓ B1 - Phantom Ghost - Electronic Alcatraz : 09:50 ██▓▓
██▓▓ B2 - Phantom Ghost - Good Night Lovers : 03:19 ██▓▓
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