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construct Pioneer100© Member  The Boy Next Door
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Seance at the Chaebol also included the single "Power." Alexander left Vacuum at the beginning of 1999, and Marina also eventually left. This clip is a recent performance of "Power" in Kiev, Ukraine. You'll notice Mattias' scruffy new look.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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"Icaros" was written and performed in 1998, before Alexander's departure. One might have expected it to have been included on Seance at the Caebol. It would have were it not for disagreements with the record label. In fact, that album never even got released in Sweden. It was released in Russia, Italy, and elsewhere. Recording "Icaros" would have to wait for the next album (actually mostly a compilation of earlier pieces and remixes) Culture of Night. The 2000 video of "Icaros" features Mattias and Marina.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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In 1998, Alexander began putting together a new disco group called Alcazar, and from the first of the next year he devoted his musical talents to producing the new group and writing songs for them. Although he contributed to their first two albums, he did not perform with Alcazar. During this time, he was also working on his philosophical writing. Mattias Lindblom remarked in 2003 that he had not spoken with Alexander since he left Vacuum. In 2000 Alexander reunited with Jean-Pierre, La Camilla, and Dominika to produce a few new songs, a new compilation album, and live performances. Le Grand Docu-Soap, the compilation album released in 2001, featured "Let the Sun Shine" and "Hands Up." "Hands Up" was one of their weakest efforts, but its video wasn't bad. Since 2001, various combinations of personel (without Alexander) have performed as Army of Lovers on occasion. One such group included only Jean-Pierre from the earlier period. Finally this past summer, Dominika, Jean-Pierre, and a blow-up doll performed with Alexander for one last appearance of Army of Lovers at G-A-Y (a nightclub) in London. After the show, Alexander asked, "Don't you think Camilla lost a lot of weight?" Jean-Pierre also said that he never expects Army of Lovers to reunite. Last edited on 12:27 am by construct |
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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In 2003, Alexander began working with Anders Hansson on a new musical project. Martin Rolinski was among the singers who auditioned. Martin was an engineering major and a tennis player who had been runner-up on a Swedish amateur music contest TV show. I guess it was like American Idol. Marina Schiptjenko had left Vacuum and was working as an art dealer. So she was available and joined the new band. (Vacuum continues as a partnership of Mattias Lindblom and Anders Wollbeck.) The new band would be marked by its extensive use of laptop computers in creating music and cultivating its fanbase. Much of the music is created directly on laptops at home. The studio is used only to record Martin's vocals and to make the final mixes. Fans are encouraged to make their own mixes and videos of the songs and post them on fansites. The band's name, Bodies Without Organs, comes from a philosophical concept discussed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their Captitalism and Schizophrenia (published in two volumes as Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus). Deleuze and Guattari adopted the term from Antonin Artaud's theoretical writings on theater. I don't really think it's necessary to understand the complexities of Deleuzian postmodernism or Artaudian threater of cruelty to appreciate the poetic power of the band's name. Bodies Without Organs first performed live early in 2004. This first live performance included the song "Son of a Gun." I have seen a very bad clip of that performance. Although "Son of a Gun" was never released as a single, it can be found on the band's first album Prototype. Here is a clip of a later performance of "Son of a Gun" broadcast on Swedish television.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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In May 2004, Bodies Without Organs released their first single, "Living in a Fantasy." It's fitting that the opening words would be sung by Marina with her voice electronically distorted. This feature would also be used on the first track on Prototype. "Living in a Fantasy" would be the last track on Prototype.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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In October 2004, Bodies Without Organs released their second single "Conquering America." It would later be included on Prototype. Here is the official video for it. You'll recognize Jean-Pierre Barda in a cameo appearance. Early on, Alexander planned that Jean-Pierre would be working with the group as a cowriter, and Jean-Pierre did help with some of the early Bodies Without Organs songs and videos, but that only lasted about a year.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  BAH HUMBUG
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Construct, i have enjoyed this thread! i hope you'll download it to a CD, it's a great record!
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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I have chatted with a knowledgable BWO fan in Sweden who informs me that BWO has gotten a distribution offer here in the United States. Unfortunately for us, they are focusing their attention on strengthening their profile in the UK and Japan where they have recently signed distribution contracts. "Sunshine in the Rain" was released as a single in the UK just a few weeks ago. Most of their fans are in Sweden and Eastern Europe. Although all three BWO members were born and reared in Sweden, both of Martin's parents are Polish, and Marina's father is Ukrainian. That is the usual explanation for their huge fanbase in Eastern Europe. (Mattias Lindblom was also born in Sweden, but he has family ties to Germany. So one begins to see a pattern emerge.) Right now, new copies of BWO albums are available in the U.S. only as very expensive imports. However, I'm told that their albums are often available on ebay. I'll go ahead and include another single from Bodies Without Organs' Prototype. "Sixteen Tons of Hardware" was released in February 2005--one month before the album's release. It became the first track on the album. The video is kind of amusing with Martin, Marina, and Alexander in a drag race on rolling office chairs, and the song is as good as anything they've produced. Last edited on 01:47 am by construct |
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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Bodies Without Organs always includes a ballad or two on each album. "Open Door" was the ballad from Prototype. It was also released as a single. I should describe these "singles" I've been mentioning. A BWO single includes the radio edit that I've been featuring in this thread, but it also includes a number of remixes. I have generally been less impressed with these remixes. Most of them mix the song with some sort of repetitive electronic beat track that often clashes with the melody. I can only imagine that these versions were to make the songs more generically danceable for play in dance clubs. They may be great to dance to, but I find most of them grating and boring to listen to when not dancing. Even a song like "Open Door" is given the dance remix treatment. The effect is bizzare. It may work all right for a song that's already as infectiously danceable as "Sunshine in the Rain," but I find the remixes of "Open Door" just plain wrong. So here is the ballad version of "Open Door."
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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MARINA SPEAKS ENGLISH! We heard her speak French in "Conquering America." In "Voodoo Magic" she speaks English. "Voodoo Magic" features some of the most memorable lyrics on Prototype. Here is a clip of Bodies Without Organs performing the song on Swedish television.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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I've already mentioned that Bodies Without Organs encourages fans to create their own videos. Here is a fan video using "Say I Love You" from Prototype. The video is based on Final Fantasy VIII, X, and X-2. I think it's one of the better fan videos I've seen, and the song has grown on me. I thought the song to be a little lightweight compared to much of their work, but Martin's voice raises the song above its sentimentality. Alexander certainly found the right singer for this group.
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construct Pioneer100© Member The Boy Next Door
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In April 2006, Bodies Without Organs (now shortened to BWO) released their second album, Halcyon Days. It was preceeded by the release of one of the album's singles, "Temple of Love." Stylistically, Halcyon Days is a little more varied than Prototype. For example, it included Martin's interpretation of "Obsession" that I posted earlier in the thread, and it included two very nice ballads. Here is the official video of "Temple of Love." "Temple of Love" was BWO's entry at Melodiefestivalen 2006. (Melodiefestivalen is Sweden's competition to select its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.) BWO placed second with this performance.
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Since the old video of "Sunshine in the Rain" from Prototype got deleted, I'll repost it. And this is "We Could Be Heroes" from Halcyon Days. Last edited on 01:01 pm by construct |
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Here's a fan video for Bodies Without Organs "Walking the Night" from Prototype. It's a photomontage with lyrics.
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"Will My Arms Be Strong Enough" was BWO's third single from Halcyon Days (following "We Could Be Heroes"). This live performance on Swedish TV is pretty odd. They have cluttered the stage with a string section and a flock of ballet dancers. Oh, well. The copy of the official video on YouTube doesn't work. I found someplace on the web where I was able to download a copy to my computer as a quicktime movie, but I can't remember where. If you want to see it, you can stream it by clicking here: http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=5601269f-e168-4639-9b04-c4e9fb3a0783&delivery=stream
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