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Bush Doctrine
[Cocosolidciti]
The bear of Sheffield gets out of his den two or three times a year. If it's almost impossible to know in advance which way will take this notorious granddad of the pre-techno industrial music (more known as one half of The Cabaret Voltaire), it's one the other hand easier to anticipate on his sensitive reactions. Is he going to hibernate after the Autumn and sleep on his artistic intentions? Or true to his legendary ferocity, is he going to bite the establishment by denouncing the injustices which hurt him since his teenage years? You'll find out while listening the new adventures of Richard H. Kirk under the name of the project "BioChemical Dread". We find on this album, composed last year, the obsessions which show the scathing political facet of this Northern man. When, somewhere in the world, there is a survivalist sect which manipulates naive country-men, some Ku Klux Klan's murderers, tyrants who act in total impunity, then Richard H. Kirk appears, armed with his dark synthesizers to denounce in his own way the ugliness of mankind. You may say he's paranoiac, but his target this time is the idiotic Bush, whose crusade war-monger doctrine is denounced with samples and sound reports. Musically, the spirit of collage is always here to support electronic layers, sometimes tribal, african overall. A mischievious groove is inserted in Bush's speech, the uneducated destroyer, who becomes against his will, the actor of an electro symphony where rhythm, seduction and lampoon cohabit. At last some wit, some critic in a movement which until then seemed devoided of any social conscience.
Anthony Augendre |
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