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Kora!Kora!Kora! Cabaret Voltaire Versions - The Album
Those who remember Sheffield United in the top half of the old Division One or Clockwork Orange the first time round will know the name, maybe experienced the sound or even have fallen under the spell of revolutionary post punks Cabaret Voltaire. Kora! Kora! Kora! is not the new album by Cabaret Voltaire but a cut-up and clubbed-to-pieces collage of key cuts from the platinum-selling debut album by the Maori dub phenomenon called Kora. You'll have to wait a bit for proper new ground-shaking Cabaret Voltaire stuff. Richard H Kirk, the Cabaret Voltaire originator and mainstay has resurrected the name. Hallelujah! Shiva Records is humbled to be able to exclusively announce that the seminal, electronic, art-rock experience from Sheffield known as Cabaret Voltaire is poised to inflict audio-visual carnage across designated areas of the world and its solar system once again. There will be no pop records. No comeback rock gigs. No steel city tours. In fact... there will be no pop, just art. All Disinformation is currently classified. But it appears that the UK population will need to head towards the London and Edinburgh regions next spring to catch the fireworks. Europe will see some bright lights in the fall but you country folks out in the US and Japan may have to wait until 2010 before the fan truly hits the shit. The first physical sign of the return of the Audio Visual Avatar can be witnessed by all in January 2009 when Shiva Records release the first new work by Cabaret Voltaire since 1993, an incredible re-working of key tracks from the debut album by Kora, Shiva's awesome Platinum- selling, chart topping Kiwis... it's like Bob Marley & The Wailers meets... well, Cabaret Voltaire. Be scared people, be very scared. Kora! Kora! Kora! is still quintessential Cabaret Voltaire…. Manipulating, cutting up, pasting, looping and creatively fucking with an original form. Perhaps not as alienated from popular culture now as they were back in the 1970's, CV remain innovators of musical experimentation and masters at the craft of etching something brand new from what exists. The soulful vocals of Kora have been mined from their lustrous debut album and married by shotgun and evil preacher to a blizzard of industrial electronics, fucked up dub and factory funk. Early Howie B, old school Kraftwerk or an underground Depeche Mode, they still dodge a pigeonhole where they can. This is the first new work from The Cabs in over a decade and it offers up a refreshing re-approach to the cutting edge retro sounds that glut the commercial radio and TV stations today. Their nod to the past exists through their production style and fondness for the Dada movement. Re-ordering cut up pieces of music into their own order and theme. The musical collage lives on. Richard H Kirk, Cabaret Voltaire's originator , saw Kora live and seized an opportunity to apply the Cabaret Voltaire effect in amongst the dubby undertones. Present throughout, he re-works the mechanical, almost tribal drum, spacey keys and a sense of the hypnotic that popularized the purveyors of 'dark dance music'. They once commented that they desired to 'annoy as many people as possible'. I'm not sure that's been achieved. Quite the contrary. But there's definitely a sit up and listen factor to the album and the overused 'it's a bit of grower' really does adhere here. Unraveling those layers takes time. Every new listen giving a different perspective. Cabaret Voltaire have lined up select shows for 2009 – dates, content, format and locations tbc. It's going to be a bit special, that's guaranteed. Cabaret Voltaire, for the record… Formed in 1974; signed with Rough Trade Records, 1978; released debut Extended Play EP, 1978; released the widely hailed albums The Voice Of America (1980) and Red Mecca (1981); released Hai!, a live album recorded in Japan, 1982; signed with Some Bizarre/Virgin Records, 1983; signed with Caroline Records, 1985; signed with EMI Manhattan Records, 1987; released trilogy: Plasticity, International Language, The Conversation, 1992-1994. Dec 10, 08 | 7:54 pm
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YES!!!!
Dec 10, 08 | 8:04 pm
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The electro industrial-scene is JAM-PACKED with classic electro acts (they are FINALLY all back), futuremelonpop & trancewhackedgoregalore bands. Let the fittest survive!
Dec 10, 08 | 8:09 pm
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I CAN'T wait to see Cabaret Voltaire live again.I WANT YOU!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2vnP-jA-Oc Dec 10, 08 | 8:12 pm
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...interesting.
I was born the year they were formed. Also interesting. Dec 10, 08 | 9:13 pm
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I am always very amazed that they are regarded an industrial act, while the bulk of their work is heavy influenced by funk and soul. I have always seen them more in the tradition of George Clinton and Afrika Bambataa (which whom the collaborated) than as an industrial act. Even the early work like "Red mecca" are some sort of experimental proto-funk.
Still good news. Though i do not think Mr Kirk will venture on the mid-80's cab path. And i would want Mallinder in the band as well. I always liked his whispered-like vocals. Dec 10, 08 | 9:21 pm
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fuck yes!! I love Caberet Voltaire. One of the BEST Industrial bands ever if you ask me, "Red MEcca" is one of my fave albums, one of the first industrial albums I ever heard when I was all obsessed with dub-reggae.. I didnt even know it was industrial back then, it was like some weird form of dub..little did I know...ahhh. Welcome back guys.
Dec 10, 08 | 9:38 pm
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I don't believe it! I refuse to believe it! I can't believe it! I won't believe it!
Ah, I give up. I didn't believe that TG would ever resurface. I got so exited reading this, I had to catch my breath. Speachless. But it's just Kirk? No Mallinder and Watson ( it would be an even bigger surprise if Chris Watson would join them) Next: Hula? Dec 11, 08 | 10:57 am
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Dec 11, 08 | 11:19 am
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I miss Hula.
Dec 11, 08 | 11:47 am
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@ Electrofreak
The you should play one of their many records. :-) Dec 11, 08 | 12:03 pm
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Ooooooh yeees! Let's hope for Mallinder and Watson!
"I miss Hula" -me too Dec 11, 08 | 12:45 pm
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"The breakdown" is the only good album by CV, the rest of their music is only average.
They influenced a lot of people but that doen´s mean that they are that good Dec 11, 08 | 5:16 pm
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Thanks for setting us straight, Galvao. I'll go immediately throw away my copies of "Code" and "The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord"!
Dec 11, 08 | 5:19 pm
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@ tshear23
BAahahaha....oh no youdidn't... I guess galvao's perception of "average" is good enough to influence an entire generation..... Dec 11, 08 | 5:34 pm
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@ galvaorod
"The breakdown"? Surely you meant "The Crackdown": http://www.discogs.com/release/111674 Dec 11, 08 | 5:47 pm
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oops
Dec 11, 08 | 5:54 pm
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They were "good enough" to influence HUNDREDS of bands :D
Dec 11, 08 | 6:00 pm
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One of the best bands -ever.
Dec 11, 08 | 7:17 pm
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influence != good.
Cab is okay. Their later stuff is pretty bland. Since it's just Kirk it probably means he needs some money. How many times have you bought a Kirk album made in the 90s under ANY moniker of his only to find that it's bland ambient or techno? Dec 11, 08 | 7:37 pm
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the album "virtual state" is very good IMHO, but I think that´s the only one
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Eh. This smells of the same thing as that Clock DVA "comeback," i.e., a possibly dubious attempt by only one of the original members to try and cash in on the name with the others not having jack to do with it.
Maybe in both cases, the albums will end up being good, but it's not really a CV reunion when it's just Kirk, is it? Dec 11, 08 | 9:21 pm
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