Hugo Ball - " Six Sound Poems " - (1916)

The kraut responsible for all this sound poetry malarky,....it had to be a German didn't it!?...Was the father of the DaDa art movement,as well as inventing sound poetry,and starting the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, was Hugo Ball......that's him in his work clothes on the artwork.
These are  his complete recorded works captured on wax cylinder in 1916,and as you may hear,nothing much has changed over the ensuing century in modern sound poetry today.
Most men aged less than forty were at the time being butchered on battlefields all over the planet during that notorious conspiracy to cull the working class, called 'the Great War'; but not Hugo,no.He was too busy saying stuff like "Blago Bung,Bosso fatake, ba-omf!" in a surrealist pub in neutral Switzerland.

"What did you do in the war daddy?"
"Well Son, I dodged the draught,ran off to a neutral country, dressed up like a prat and made up silly words"
"Thank god for that daddy,you're not as stupid as you look-ed"

Germany is responsible for some of the most shameful variety of interests,hobbies, and pastimes that have ever shaken the foundations of civilisation. We've had...i think you know whats coming here.....Jew-Hating, guillotining students, expressionism, playing at being Nietzsche, Nazi glee clubs, wearing kinky boots, inventing and imbibing morphine replacements,Markism, Wagner,Neue Deutsche Welle,sausage munching,and, last but not least...the Dada movement. Without which we'd still be cooing at Constable's "The Haywain",and listening to Elgar.....many people still do amazingly!?


Tracklist:
1.Seepferdchen Und Flugfische (Seahorses And Flying Fishes) (0:41)

2.Karawane (Caravane)(1:24)

3.Wolken (Clouds) (1:04)
4.Katzen Und Pfauen (Cats And Peacocks) (0:52)5.Totenklage (Dirge)(1:48)

6.Gadji Beri Bimba (1:48)

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