KRAFTWERK - Die Roboter (TV-Performance 1991-06-13) músico português, Fernando Abrantes.

1960 Nasceu em Lisboa, Portugal. 1985-1986 Atuou como tecladista de "Maria Magdalena", de Sandra. 1991 Juntou-se aos Kraftwerk durante a produção do álbum The Mix. 1998 Produziu música oficial da Expo '98. No finalzinho dos anos 1980, uma imagem que parecia fortíssima na cabeça dos fãs do Kraftwerk desapareceu. O grupo vinha se mantendo desde 1975 com a mesma formação (Ralf Hutter, Florian Schneider, Wolfgang Flur e Karl Bartos).Já não era o primeiro line-up, mas marcou muitos fãs.Em 1989, rolou a primeira baixa nessa turma. Wolfgang já vinha ficando descontente com o grupo desde o começo dos anos 1980 – chegou a declarar que Electric cafe, disco de 1987, foi um “café frio pra mim”. Foi saindo da banda aos poucos, até que não apareceu mais no estúdio para trabalhar. O grupo pôs Fritz Hilpert em seu lugar em 1990 e ele está lá até hoje. 1990, Kraftwerk caíam na estrada com sua maior turnê desde a do disco Computer world (1981). Com outra diferença na formação: Karl Bartos decidiu sair da banda (aparentemente por já estar cansado do perfeccionismo de Hutter e Schneider) e foi substituído por um músico português, Fernando Abrantes. Fernando, que estudara música e eletrônica em Düsseldorf, havia tido seus namoros com a cena eurodance – foi tecladista de Sandra, a cantora alemã que fez sucesso em 1985 com o hit (I’ll never be) Maria Madalena. O músico não ficou muito tempo no Kraftwerk e acabou fazendo apenas poucos shows da turnê do disco de remixes The mix (de 1991, com ele e Hilpert nos créditos). Tudo no Kraftwerk é envolto em mistério, mas a biografia Publikation, de David Buckley, diz que os líderes da banda não curtiam muito o estilo mais animado do músico no palco – enquanto Florian e Ralf preferiam insistir na imagem de homens-robô. The mix, rolavam alguns programas de TV. Entre eles, um curioso game show alemão no qual o Kraftwerk não apenas participou como também exibiu o controle dos robôs eletrônicos no palco por intermédio de laptops, na música The robots. No vídeo, dá pra ver que Fernando chegou a ganhar um boneco com seu rosto. Ralf e Florian, líderes da banda, não estão apenas sérios: parecem estar putos da vida com alguma coisa, durante o comando dos robôs

The Sound Of Progress ~ Coil, Current 93, Foetus, Test Dept-Dutch TV Doc...

The Sound Of Progress ~ Coil, Current 93, Foetus, Test Dept Dutch TV Documentary-1988 Directed by Alexander Oey . Ft Coil Current 93 Foetus Test Dept. The Sound Of Progress DVD (CSR194DVD) Coil - Current 93 - Foetus - Test Dept. The documentary shows the mindset of the some of the most original and influential artists of the experimental scene. An unprecedented insight into the workings, the methods and the ideas that made these names legendary. Filmed in Hamburg, Amsterdam and London. Interviews – live material – studio work Director: Alexander Oey Producer: Marc Van Der Bijl / Justin Mitchell Broadcast on Dutch TV’s Videoline program in 1988, the forward-looking documentary The Sound of Progress combines interview and performance footage of some of the period’s most thoughtful and articulate musical extremists. If you have any interest in what Coil, Current 93, Scraping Foetus off the Wheel or Test Dept thought about, sounded like, or ate for lunch three decades ago, these 40 minutes will whiz by. And if you don’t have any interest in these four artists, might I recommend, as your personal medical adviser, that you remove the shit from your ears? Let the anger, despair and hatred of these musicians, who all recognize the total emptiness of their cultural moment, stand as a corrective to ‘80s nostalgia. Their diagnosis still applies because the whiny, sedative, garbage-ass clown music saturating everyday life was just as bad then, though it might be twice as pervasive now. Here’s David Tibet’s take on the hot sounds of 1988, which he concludes by prescribing “a good kicking” for the anesthetized pop audience: People listen to pop music for an easy way out, just for enjoyment of the most shallow and tedious type, really. The problem with Western music—contemporary Western music—is that it offers nothing except shallow pleasure, petty enjoyment, and the promise of dancing the night away and drinking, fucking, picking people up, all completely pointless things to do. Western music used to have something important in it if we look back at the classical composers, but even the classical music of the West now can’t offer anything to people, because it exists in its own sphere. It’s a finished sort of music. As you might expect, Tibet speaks for C93 and JG Thirlwell for Foetus, while everyone in Test Dept—the most explicitly left-wing of the industrial groups—gets an equal say. John Balance and Stephen Thrower do most of the talking for Coil, though you’ll catch glimpses of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson sticking his fingers in Balance’s mouth over a champagne lunch and playing a Fairlight in the studio. Everyone looks really young. Aside from their shared disgust with the popular music of the time, the four groups don’t necessarily agree on much. Coil’s insistence on the primacy of mystical experience is met by Test Dept’s stark social realism; Tibet’s conviction that Western civilization is stone dead is balanced by Thirlwell’s professed love for cultural trash. Nor do the occultists in the bunch agree on what is to be done: as the members of Coil turn inward, Tibet prepares to abandon the moldering corpse of Western civilization and seek truth in India. (It’s worth sticking around until the end of the doc to learn what he found there.).

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