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September 15, 2004
The Country (Not the State)
Gogi.Ge.Org - Post-Industrial Boys (MP3)
Post Industrial Boys have the wonderful voice.
They read some James Joyce and make a careful choice.
Post Industrial Boys subscribe to Village Voice.
They play with colored toys and make an awful noise.
This is the opening track from the debut album by Gogi.Ge.Org (aka George Dzodzuashvili). Along with his pals from Tbilisi, Georgia who form a collective of artists called Goslab, he has managed to fashion a record that is lounge-pop downbeat from leftfield. So there's that. Then I found this:
Goslab is a phantom, which manifests itself as a culture through the performances of individual members and their various projects. In this sense, Goslab is somewhat like Georgia. Georgia is a post-communist phantom - a pipeline in Off-Europe. A projection screen. There is a 5-hour time difference between London and Tbilisi. Tbilisi starts singing while America and Western Europe are still asleep.
Post-industrial: The fifth Kondratieff wave will see the transition from hardware to software. Marx is on the finish line, somewhere between the greater and smaller Caucasus. Oil is entropy, ashes. "Reproduction of what cannot be transformed" (Paul Valéry). Survival in global capitalism. Post-industrial joys. Streams. Sounds."
So there's that on top of that. I hope it entertains. It's quite good for driving and the vox sound a bit like Damon Albarn with a cold
Posted by jimweed at September 15, 2004 08:27 PM
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