TRIUMUIRAT
With all the Kissingerismus, phlebitis and detente abounding, it seemed the time had come to tune in some Kraut Rock. There'd been much to-do of late about these ripe Deutsch fruits on import labels. And now they were all coming over here. Triumvirat, from Cologne, was making a big splash and since they were billed at the Academy of Music it was only a reluctance towards international affairs that made me shy away from the gig.
TRIUMUIRAT
JUMPIN' JACH FLASH ON THE STREETS OF COLOGNE
PIPER LEIGH
BY
Through a gap in the breastwork he saw then a tiny silver egg with a flame, pure and steady, issuing from beneath, lighting forms of men in suits, sweaters, overcoats, watching from bunkers or trenches. It was the rocket, in its stand; a static test. — Gravity's Rainbow
With all the Kissingerismus, phlebitis and detente abounding, it seemed the time had come to tune in some Kraut Rock. There'd been much to-do of late about these ripe Deutsch fruits on import labels. And now they were all coming over here. Triumvirat, from Cologne, was making a big splash and since they were billed at the Academy of Music it was only a reluctance towards international affairs that made me shy away from the gig. That and the fact that to more than one paranoid Brooklynite, the Academy on Friday night is more like a concentration camp than a rock hall. Since the deck was stacked against "em, though, we decide to shoot on over andT check out postNazi chic.