eclipsed No. 115 / 11-2009

PINK FLOYD
30 years "The Wall"

After the fat years of rock, a feeling of crisis, disillusionment and weariness prevailed at the end of the seventies. Pink Floyd placed their most pompous project into this climate. A sign of unprecedented arrogance? Symbol of the progressive loss of reality in rock nobility? Or was the concept work "The Wall" published thirty years ago on the contrary a wide awake critique of the times? Tracing the anniversary.

GENESIS
Gimme live!

"That was an unaccompanied bass solo pedal from Michael Rutherford... This ist the 'Musical Box'." Probably every fan of the early phase of Genesis can assign these words to the record on which they sound. "Genesis Live" - of course! Genesis live is also the motto of the fourth box with albums of the famous band. Tony Banks and Steve Hackett told us about the CD/DVD set and the live band Genesis.

RAY DAVIES
Hyperactive in the demolition studio

Thirteen years after the end of the Kinks, Ray Davies is thinking out loud about a reunion of the British rock legend. No wonder: he has exhausted all other creative areas, including books, films, musicals and - most recently - a choir album. Things his fans can't always understand - and that's exactly why he does them.

OSIBISA
Ghana close by

Your name sounds strange and tempting. Just like their music. When Osibisa founded themselves forty years ago, their mixture of African polyrhythm and Western pop music was absolutely seductive in its otherness. Just in time for the anniversary Teddy Osei and Co. present a new album. And it is finally another one that can exist alongside her early works.

GONG
2032: The year in which we contact you

Gong rhymes with bong. And indeed, the British-Australian-French Space Rock cult collective Gong has been producing for decades what in some circles is somewhat disparagingly called stonermucke. Band soul Daevid Allen - never a cost despiser himself - set off with his funky crew from planet Gong and even presented a new album.

Rock Scene South Africa: BLK JKS and THE PARLOTONES
Escape into Everyday Life

South Africa is anything but a musical great power. On the contrary, on the Poplandkarte, the giant state marks only one tiny dot. That's about to change. Using the example of BLK JKS and the Parlotones, we show that South African pop will soon be the norm in this country as well.

NEW MODEL ARMY
Everything on your doorstep is political

It is the eleventh album in the almost thirty-year history of New Model Army. And the third since the end of the perennial break that Justin Sullivan & Co had taken after the death of founding member Robert Heaton. And one thing is already clear: "Today Is A Good Day" is one of the best works of the English rock band. eclipsed talked to Sullivan about politics, personal matters and the institution New Model Army.

MICHAEL FUCHS-GAMBÖCK
Cognac with Ron Wood

Among the big names in business, there's probably no one he hasn't already held the microphone to. This is the name of the current book by the Augsburg music journalist Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, who has been working on eclipsed for seven years now, "I had them all! Tea with Madonna, Cognac with Ron Wood" (Periplaneta). There he reports about his experiences with stars like David Bowie, Roger Waters, Prince or Janet Jackson. In the following we present an abridged text about his encounter with Ron Wood in 1997.

Keep the text up! Cult songs and their meaning
KATE BUSH - CLOUDBUSTING

KATE BUSH IS FAMOUS FOR CHOOSING EXCEPTIONAL THEMES FOR HER SONG LYRICS. THERE ARE SONGS ABOUT BURGLARS, ESCAPE ARTISTS OR HOUSEWIVES TALKING TO WASHING MACHINES. AND EVEN IN THIS POOL OF CURIOSITIES, CLOUDBUSTING STILL STANDS OUT.