The Assassinations
The Assassinations
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About The Assassinations
"All you need to make an album is a girl and a gun.” Jean Luc Godard. Sex, death, rock-n-roll. The Assassinations is a band, an album and an idea. Is there any more appropriate name for a rock'n'roll band during a decade in which suicide bombs, ethnic cleansing, and kidnapping have become like muzak on the TV news. The Assassinations is rock-nroll that revels in the signs of the times. The band also has two asses in its name. The Assassinations is latest incarnation in the career of Berlin music legend and agent provocateur Ghazi Barakat. A mainstay of the city’s underground music scene since the early 90s, Barakat was the founder and singer of garage noise outfit the Golden Showers. He also performed as part of “Give Up”, a Digital Hardcore-affiliated band with Shizuo’s David Hammer and Cobra Killer’s Annika Trost. Following that he set out on a solo path for several years as the Boy From Brazil, a pandrogynous one man band who performed a daring Dada cabaret in stilettos and suspenders with sputnik beats and polysexual rhythms. Barakat walked on gilded splinters with stripper heels, like the lovechild of Alan Vega and Pierre Molinier, during live performances that constantly threatened to dissolve into utter chaos. The son of a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Barakat was born in Germany but spent time living in Palestine. As a child, he attended Communist summer camps behind the Iron Curtain and weapon training sessions in Palestine, learning how to fire a gun before he learnt how to hold a microphone. His weapon became the art of rock-n-roll. Barakat is a free radical. He robs and steals, rapes and pillages from cultural history to create an inspired pop art collage. Future Blasts From The Past is a cultural time machine that bears the traces of all Barakat’s inspirators. Sun Ra and the Plasmatics, Burroughs and Celine, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Gun Club. Musique concrete meets punk and blues. Hard rock meets free jazz and garage rock collides with library music. Atrocity, provocation and perversion all wrapped up in one tantalising package, and branded with the aesthetics of 70s terror networks like the SLA and the RAF. There are tales of substance abuse, male prostitution and political violence that spin out of control into perverted delusions and hallucinatory feedback. The nine tracks on Future Blasts From The Past, which is the first release on Barakat’s new label Hashishin Records, were recorded between 2006 and 2007 with engineer and producer Tico Zamora (who has played with HR of Bad Brains and Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground) at his Polytrash studios in Berlin. Barakat roped in a selection of able friends and conspirators: Tim Gane of Stereolab, Fred Bigot (aka French art-techno one man band Electronicat), Taylor Savvy, Nicole Morier from Electrocute and, most extravagantly a brass ensemble from the Himalayas (Hindulam Ensemble). Their official photos have been taken by legendary British rock photographer Joe Dilworth. (available on request) To present the new songs live in all their assaultive joy, Barakat has assembled a 4-piece band around him. The Assassinations opened for Iggy Pop & The Stooges in summer 2008 at their vast open air gig at the Zitadelle in Berlin. Next year they will be coming to a city near you. Roll the motorcade. Death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people! 1. Intoxication, 2. Midnight Cowboy, 3. Hallucination Girl, 4. Dead Meat In A State Of Shock, 5. Cities Of The Red Night, 6. Out Of The Past A Needs X, 7. Devil Killed A Woman, 8. The Last Night Of The World myspace.com/therassassinations
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