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3. Joy Division – Dead Soul
Single B-Seite „Licht und Blindheit“ F 1980 (A-Seite „Atmosphere“)
Fällt mir jetzt erst auf: das Coverbild ist ja voll von C.D. Friedrich inspiriert!
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@demon, deine Anmerkung ließ mir letzte Nacht keine Ruhe, heute morgen habe ich gefunden was ich gesucht habe.
In Ergänzung zu deiner Feststellung und in Zusammenhang mit der Single „Licht und Blindheit“ hier der Text vom französichen (Jean-Pierre Turmel) ins englische übersetzt (von Paul Buck):
Der Text ist auch Teil des sehr guten Booklets aus der 4-CD-Box „Heart And Soul“. Sehr dicke Empfehlung!
Licht und Blindheit | Jean-Pierre Turmel *
(* from Sordide Sentimental SS 33002 | written November/December 1979 and released March 1980 | Translation by Paul Buck | Included in the accompaning book of the Heart and soul CD package)
The event on stage is more than a spectacle. The intense spotlight beam isolates the silhouette, fixes it in space and annuls time. Blinded and dumbstruck for a moment, the illuminated singer no longer discerns the limits of the room around him. An echo in the heart of the chance silence strengthens the overwhelming impression of a subterranean quest. Echoes of grottoes and cold cathedrals, echoes of the infinite cosmos.
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CLEMENS BRENTANO, the German romanticist, wrote this intuitive sentence: „… Impressively, the night veils the immense porch of dusk, and every human heart knows who has won, who has lost“.
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HEINREICH VON KLEIST, that other great Romanticist, states that „in the organic world, in so far as the conscious reflection becomes darker or weaker, grace advances more radiant and triumphant…“; it is no less true of it that he hesitates to annihilate all conscience in himself. He seeks only in fact the awakened dream, a kind of somnambulism where the observer, though in retreat, would remain vigilant. The unconscious is here a super conscience, a reservoir of occult knowledge in which the awakened part desires to drink deep. As MARCEL BRION notes in his work the Romantic Germany, the question is one of „sleep and active dreams“. One enters the night in order to explore it and the twilight is its threshold. Interior darkness, darkness of the terrestrial depths, the romantic symbolism passes with ease and intuition from one world to the other. The nocturnal sky blends with the subterranean world of hells. The texts of that time testify to that… Thus half magnificent letter from Caroline Von GUNDERODE to Beltina BRENTANO (Clemens Brentano’s sister): „You don’t yet understand that these paths lead right lo the bottom of the spirit’s mine; but the day will come when they appear to you as such, for man walks often through deserted ways; the more he has the desire to advance, the more solitude become terrifying, and the more the desert spreads onwards. But when you realise how far you have descended into the well of thought and when you find there below a new dawn, when you re-emerge joyous, when you speak from your subterranean world, then you will be consoled; for the world will never be with you“.
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What happens in the concert is outside the ordinary. Anguish and concentration, between the fire of dazzling spotlight and the moving darkness of the crowd, vaguely disturbing, below the stage.
JOY DIVISION passes beyond simple entertainment to retranscribe musically the worlds of half-light and the intensity of ecstasy. Sometimes disillusioned or nostalgic accents intrude, for the experience is multiform and its complexity cannot be translated in a sole concept. A music at the intersection of luminous and dark worlds, between silence and the cry, a bridge between the past and present mystical symbolism. Key of the rock concerts (doesn’t the word „rock“ in itself refer to the subterranean world?) modern rituals of which till now we saw only the entertaining or sociological aspects.
Licht und Blindheit | Jean-Pierre Turmel
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