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...Shenggy also performs in an electronica duo, White, alongside vocalist Zhang Shouwang from Beijing alternative rockers Carsick Cars. It was with White that she caught the ear of Einstürzende Neubauten's singer-writer-multi-instrumentalist Blixa Bargeld. The duo plans to release a debut album later this year, under Bargeld's aegis. "Everything is coming very fast, young people are very open-minded and, in some ways, the scene lacks direction," she says. "Avant-garde music here needs time, but in a couple of years, things are going to be good...
...legendary electronic cacophonists are recreating their sinister studio constructions on stage, collapsing several buildings in the process. Blixa and the boys have settled down a bit on their last album, Perpetuum Mobile, but the live show should still be a matchless, if somewhat torturous, evening. Tickets $16. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
There’s something intimate and oddly beautiful about Perpetuum Mobile. As vocalist Blixa Bargeld softly utters “was habe ich? / was habe ich nicht” (what do I have? / what don’t I have?) in “Selbstportrait mit Kater,” memories harken back to ’70’s Berlin when the then-young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile?...
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