live: Ordnungsamt (Garage/Rock - DE)

ORDNUNGSAMT (speak ‚ord-noongs-umt’, meaning ‚Office for Order’, the German traffic quasi police) is the new garage-rock duet from Berlin. Skin-beating and string-raking they are issuing tickets, citations and violations to the conformist bourgeois neo-liberal reactionary radio sound of our moment, letting singer/guitarist Luc LeDuc and Drummer Bettie Beschuht (aka Stetti Gargast) tell little abstract-romantic/expressionistic tales of love, hate and strange bar encounters. The electrifying, 80% german and 19% english texted songs usually get performed full of verve and passion by the two musicians from Berlin. The duet completely fills out the stage as well as the mostly enthused listeners’ senses – one seems to indeed perceive more then the possible sum of the two instruments. The magically unfolding Songs have such ecstatic, „head nodding and feet rocking (causing)“ (Ron Orp Mail), interlocked Power. Live as well as recorded. Or in short, as ex-David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode, U2, Joy Division collaborator, recording engineer Tom Mueller notes: „Geil!“ („Def!“)Why rock in german? Does that not sound like shit?

No, not at all! ORDNUNGSAMT prove, like few before; roll over Goethe works! Luc, singer and guitarist of the band states that: „almost nobody listens to the lyrics anyway, so it really doesn’t matter. One should basically write and sing in the language one thinks in. For example german. Or if needed in some other gibberish or mumbojumbo that happens to float around one’s head“ and „Germany has originated great thinkers and poets, the autobahn, beer and hard liquor available at gas stations, ORDNUNGSAMT and so forth“.

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