The video shows the attempt to escape the dreariness of the existence a polar bear is doomed to failure - his flight is a circular motion which will be without salvation.
The flight to seemingly paradisaical states ('untouched Arctic'), city as a place of culture and communication, are shown as illusory utopias- Richard Metzger
*Bitte stehlen Sie das nicht, DangerousMinds - es ist seit 10 Jahren in
Betrieb und Sie haben es nie gefunden.
Bitte geh einfach von diesem weg.
Nächste ist deins
Ich mache Witze und dann fange ich an zu denken: Weißt du, ich wette,
Hillbilly-Schwanzlutscher hat es schon gestohlen, also musste er seine
Hacks nicht $79 bar, bezahlen, natürlich, habe ich nachgeschlagen, und
seine NDW Besatzung bekam die ganze Grauzone, ABER keine der
Gründungsmitglieder.
Gray area was a Swiss Music Group early 1980 Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW). With their greatest hit, Polar Bear, the group succeeded in entering the Austrian and German Charts. Years. She was one of the pioneers. The end of 1979 left Marco Repetto (drums) and GT (bass), the punk band Glueams to get together with Martin Eicher (guitar, vocals), a new musical focus. Martin / Tinu had Glueams already in their single mental supported. In early March 1980 she gave her first concert as a gray area in the club Spex in Bern. Martin’s brother Stephan Eicher (Guitar) and Claudine Chirac (saxophone supplemented), the group temporarily, with live performances and recordings. Gray area has been notified by the two pieces Polar Bear and SpaceWhich they recorded the LP in 1980 published the “Swiss Wave – The Album”. Polar Bear met the lifestyle of the time and got radio airplay in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The song was released as a single and reached number 6 in the Austrian and German 12th place in the charts. The group refused, however, the commercial requirements and concentrated on film and studio work. In the winter of 1981 they returned to the Sunrise studios where the songs Moscow, Dance and I love them were included. In July and August 1981 Martin and Stephan Eicher went again with Marco Repetto to Sunrise studio and recorded their first and also last studio album. In February 1982, Ingrid Berney joined gray area in order to support Martin and Stephan Eicher live. According to a recent studio session, in which I and Thou added, was parted ways the musicians. Less than ten shows, four singles and one album the group broke up 1982nd GT and Marco Repetto regrouped with former Glueams guitarist and drummer Dominique Martin Pavlinec Uldry, first as a “Missing Link”, then under the name “Eiger North Face.” GT then switched to the Futurism style similar action group “Red Catholic Orthodox Jewish Chorus” to the performance artist Edy Marconi, in the temporarily played Marco Repetto. Later called the group “I Suonatori. Stephan Eicher launched a successful solo career. Martin Eicher 1988 published the EP “Spellbound Lovers,” a flashy, but unnoticed work. Marco Repetto worked up from 1989 in Techno– And AmbientScene as DJ and musicians (e.g. remixing mittageisen v2) a name. December Formed in 1978 in Bern, the punk band Glueams. After some changes Eicher 1979 met Martin as a guitarist and a few months to later by his brother Stephen, both have music experience with the Noise Boys Project collected. You name around in Gray area and tried to expand their music concept multimedia: They complement their instruments with synthesizers, light effects and super-8 film projections. The editor of Punk magazine in Zurich “No Fun” Urs Staiger is attentively at a gig on the band and brings Gray area in the Studio to record for his Swiss Wave Sampler two pieces: “Space” and “Special”. The latter is a large radio and Diskothekenhit in Switzerland. 1981 suggests the label Welt-Rekord/EMI among the Swiss and by now better Promotion and sales reached the single “Special” a Top Ten ranking in Germany. But most of all the missing TV appearances – the band consistently refused – and ungewöhniche Live concerts without their hits, but with much Synthiesizer improvisations were not conducive to the success of gray areas: “If want to hear a polar bear, he should buy the record “ so the brothers Eicher. End of 1981 appeared in his own eponymous LP recorded Sunrise Studio (without the “Special”) And by the departure of G.T. and Marco Repetto gray area also shrank in the meantime the duo and appeared somewhat below. Then in 1982 with the single “Dream with me” one last musical signs of life of the band. located on the Maxi next to the title track, a newly recorded version of “Furious Glass “. Defiance and perhaps because of its modest instrumentation with drums, Synth and guitar on this record were timeless electronic Beads as “Furious jar or “The way Couple “. Martin Eicher runs after the dissolution 1982 retired from the music business, while his brother Stephan has since released numerous solo albums. All in all they have, even if they wanted it never to the “Special” NDW co-written a great piece, the cold synthesizerlastige Music with the worst text then hit exactly the zeitgeist. Also today they are reduced to this song.
(C) & (P) Julien Skye Daniela Quin
*please don’t steal this yet, DangerousMinds - it’s been up for 10 years, and you never found it.
Please just walk away from this one.
Next one’s yours!
I was kidding, then i thought, ya know, i bet that hillbilly cocksucker has already stolen it, and ... WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT!
(German for “grey area”) was a Swiss group formed in 1979 who played ten concerts and recorded four singles and one album before splitting up at the end of 1982. They are most famous for their amazing 1981 song “Eisbär” (“Polar Bear”). Ladytron samples the song on “Fighting In Built Up Areas” and it was also covered by French group Nouvelle Vague.
Grauzone would be considered a classic band of the “Neue Deutsche Welle” era. They also left behind some music videos.
12.15.2010
GRAUZONE - EISBAER - auch Ex-Grauzone Saxophon, Claudine Chirac singen und ihr blaues Höschen tanzen in ihrem https://youtu.be/CFYxdzLKGxI 1984-Video Alle meine Entelein (David Lynch, Devo, James Chance und Wall of Voodoo) hatten ein saxaphonhupendes baby. "Aus Gründen, die mir etwas unklar sind, hat mein Kunstlehrer das heute völlig getrennt und dann hatte ich den Ohrwurm. Das Lied ist fantastisch / Aus Gründen, meine Kunstlehrer "Das Lied ist genial."
Dieses Musikvideo wurde im Zusammenhang mit der Veröffentlichung der Doppel-CD "GRAUZONE 1980-1982 REMASTERED" produziert. Das Video enthält den Song in seiner ursprünglichen Länge (4'46 "), die Einzelversion ist etwa 30 Sekunden kürzer. Es gibt auch eine englischsprachige Version (Eisbär) des Songs, die zuerst auf der Doppel-CD veröffentlicht wurde. GRAUZONE 1980-1982 REMASTERED". Das Video zeigt, dass der Versuch, der Trostlosigkeit seines Daseins eines Eisbären zu entgehen, zum Scheitern verurteilt ist - sein Flug ist eine kreisförmige Bewegung, die wird ohne Erlösung sein. Die Flucht in scheinbar paradiesische Zustände ("unberührte Arktis", die Stadt als Ort der Kultur und Kommunikation) wird als illusionäre Utopie dargestellt. "Es gibt kein falsches Leben"
