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Stan Back & The Noise Glam_nervous politics, EP 10“

by Stan Back

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1.
The Ballad of Stan Back There was this man Playin’ music and rappin’ Some called him Stan Back Described him in a low sense Put him on a rack Put him on a rack Jammin’ electro spam Name o‘ the band‘s Noise Glam With confidence In the whole noise shebang This is the plan This is the plan This is the ballad of Stan Back He was feared Scarin‘ people to death Trippled his art effort Till he drove his art to a mad bet After checkin‘ discoursive fuck Reproducing hybrids Of anthropological meta-trans Stan became a gas G6: Space Echo Started a sustainable fire Retaining surplus desire The ballad of Stan Back He was feared, Scarin‘ people to death Drove his art to a mad bet All messed up, in a rush Headed for a full royal flush His stingy hotness burned his wings Diving into, diving into the chimes Even if this was fiction Dreamin’ of a great redemption He had all the time in the world Stan was a myth, a legend, a lie But as you would imagine, he was shy Stan was commonly considered To be a dialectical wizard But jammin’ so crass Costs him his ass Jammin’ electro spam Name o‘ the band‘s Noise Glam With confidence In the whole noise – noise shebang But after all It doesn’t fit his plan Doesn’t fit his plan This is the ballad of Stan Back Some used to sing: Stan Back was fadin‘ black He’s feared, Scarin‘ people to death Puts his art on a mad bet Comin‘ from Bohemia And going public Dreamin‘ of a great redemption Even this was fiction. With all his ideas after all, Stan disappeared In the age of the Mad bet pharmacy The masses and the mighty Remote-controlled Stanley The man disappeared Think he was monstrous Yes, he was Yes, he was Until he disappeared He was monstrous Yes, he was Yes, he was
2.
Teenage Item `give you a teenage item to carry in your heart taste the sweet poison of fame never believe in gold `give you a teenage item to carry in your heart emancipation mayhem try to get a hold teeter, teeter teetering on the brink teeter, teeter teetering on the brink teeter, teeter teetering on the brink teenage item I am a volcano on the egde of eruption feel a jarring contradiction find some intellectual ammo `give you a teenage item to carry in your heart killing nervous politics that‘s what they say `give you a teenage item tells you how to pray tells you how to pray
3.
Flatratebordell Intro: I signed a contract to work far from home and landed in a brothel. Had no passport, working the whole day and night with my body, in out, in out, repetition, repetition, reputation. No family, no friends, alone, no rights: It‘s too sad to tell, working in a Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Cheap exploitation Class masturbation Come along Is it wrong? Cursing my customer to hell, working in a Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Cheap exploitation Class masturbation Come along Can it be wrong? Damning my pimp to hell, working in a Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Cheap exploitation Class masturbation Come along Am I wrong? It‘s too sad to tell, living in a Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell, Flatratebordell
4.
Pain Client I‘m a pain client My world‘s a pain care unit I‘m a pain client On a mountain of pain I‘m a pain client In a maelstrom of pain A pain client of societal pain (Living) in collective pain I‘m a pain client In a maelstrom of pain

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Artist: Stan Back
Title: nervous politics
Format: 10 inch black vinyl EP (45 bpm) with designed innersleeve
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www.a-musik.com/p/product/back-stan-the-noise-glam-nervous-politics-10-095966.html
2015
Edition of 300

The artist Stan Back disappeared some years ago in Costa Rica. The American cultural scholar Jules Beauregard found the documents published here on the artist’s laptop – texts, photographs, drawings, music recordings and videos. The material annotated with editorial remarks was apparently meant to be published.
In a cross-medial fashion a story unfolds. The existential entwinement of the artist-subject in efficiency-thinking dominated by market logic, image and label politics is currently determining work in the field of art on a global scale. Put under pressure, artists are sacrificing their knowledge to career calculations. The consequence of this »nervous politics« can most likely only be to disappear.
If one listens to the poetic beat of the sounds and texts, and thus of the entire narration merely as the liner notes of Stan Back’s music albums »nervous politics« and »The Ups & Downs of a Hermeneutical Transvestite« (2011), an inextricable dissonance arises: It eludes a catchy PR rhetoric. The album contradicts conventional commodity aesthetics in that these liner notes perform a strategic maximization of complexity.
Stan Back’s bustling life represents a socio-critical approach that grasps the strong commercialization of art and culture since the year 2000 as an abolishment of artistic freedom. He felt extreme discomfort on account of his own untimeliness. Neoliberal complacency drove Stan Back into the post-hysterical heart of darkness.

With completion of our vinyl 10"-EP »nervous politics« the »Stan Back«-project – art, music, lyrical texts – has reached a decisive point. After months of hard work we are happy to present these four wonderful tracks for you to enjoy. The experimental electronic, read and played protest song between sonic rush and crystalline cultural analysis: elektro gonzo at its best (Daniel Door).

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released April 1, 2020

Stan Back Drum machine, Guitar noise, Sampling, Vocals
Daniel Door E-Mandoline, Octatrac, OP-1, Backgroundvocals
TM Solver all kinds of Synthesizers, Drum machine, Sequenzer

All lyrics by Stan Back (Stefan Römer)
published in the book:
The Ups and Downs of Stan Back, Textem, Hamburg 2013

Guitar »Teenage Item« by Alex Paulick
Background vocals »Flatratebordell« by Caroline Thiel, Daniel Door

Produced by Stefan Römer

Recorded by TM Solver and Alex Paulick

Mixed and engineered by Alex Paulick

Mastered by Marco Pellegrino

Conception, Art work and Cover photograph:
Stefan Römer (taken by Franz Wanner, 2008)

Cover Design: Jonas Vogler

Thanks to: Alexandra Weltz, Alfred Janta, Timm Ringewaldt, Nike Rusche, Stéphane Baur, Volker Groht

»robustly trippin’, rigorously teutonic, rewardingly textual« Tom Holert

Berlin, 2015

Stefan Römer founded the activist artist collective »FrischmacherInnen (fresh-makers)« (1992); his essay film »conceptual paradise« (2006) on post-minimalist and three generations of conceptual art was internationally screened; his book »inter-esse« appeared at merve pub. in 2014.

Daniel Door is an electronic musician and artist. In his artistic practice he explores noises and glitches in human-machine-environment relations. He composes and performes experimental electronic and industrial music for theater, dance, and video art.

TM Solver (Thomas Meier) was a professional alpinist and has just published his 10th full album as electronic musician and composer in the synthesizer-tradition of the berlin school with the label "syngate".

Engineering:
Alex Paulick is a musician and sound engineer for i.a. Kreidler, Kante and Coloma.

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Stefan Römer founded the activist artist collective »FrischmacherInnen (fresh-makers)« (1992); his essay film »conceptual paradise« (2006) on post-minimalist and three generations of conceptual art was internationally screened; his book »inter-esse« appeared at merve pub. in 2014. ... more

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