Xmal Deutschland - Allein (Official Music Video)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- From the compilation "Early Singles: 1981-1982" out now on Sacred Bones Records. Original live audio recording from Nosferatu Festival 1982.
Listen / buy: lnk.to/XmalEar...
“Gothics”-a time before the word goth had even taken shape-believed in the do-it-yourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument. This, alongside the bric-a-brac fashion of Adam Ant and the long-winded atmospheric malaise of Bauhaus’ 1979 single, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” gray clouds were starting to form. And in the unlikely city of Hamburg, a brazen and haunting gang of five women formed Xmal Deutschland.
Amidst the dark ruckus that coalesced at the turn of the 1980s, these similarly-styled incendiaries began practicing in a rehearsal room that belonged to some of their boyfriends’ bands. As any true punk would, Xmal Deutschland’s members Caro May, Rita Simon, Manuela Rickers, Fiona Sangster and Anja Huwe, started the band despite not having had any previous musical experience. When they bought studio time to record their first single, “Schwarze Welt,” Simon was originally slated to be the lead vocalist but failed to show on the day of recording. Huwe-who originally played bass-was thrust into the frontwoman position, and begrudgingly agreed: “The only condition from my side [was that] I will never perform onstage… Two months later, they made me without ever telling me upfront. I had no choice.”
The “Schwarze Welt” seven-inch was released on the local punk label, ZickZack, in 1981 and introduced the band as an unsettling swarm of intensity. There’s an urgency in its repetitive dirge, a swirling mania that persists on the b-side with “Die Wolken” and “Großstadtindianer” whose crude synthesizer noises escalate in tension. Most of all, Huwe’s uniquely venomous German vocals quickly became embedded in the unbridled and burgeoning scene of glamorous gloom.
Punk’s independence from the stiff grip of tradition allowed the band to find solace in anti-establishment art and music, far from the conventions of the past. “We as girls, especially being creative in many ways, ignored facts like: be nice, be polite, take good care about your looks. Of course, we wanted to look good but in a different and unconventional way. We were enough for ourselves." However, some tropes were harder to overcome. The association of Xmal Deutschland as a girl band (later with the addition of Wolfgang Ellerbrock who, jokingly, became the token man of the group) gained traction within the media circuit because of their looks: “We were like paradise birds,” says Huwe in retaliation to the tired misogynistic tale. The band’s keyboardist, Fiona Sangster, adds: “To be an ‘all-girl band’ happened accidentally. To us, it was not the main reason to form a band.”
With their peacocked hair and thick kohl-lined eyes, Xmal Deutschland’s music retained both a restlessness and delicacy, transcending any confines of the “Neue Deutsche Welle” movement (much like their colleagues and friends DAF and Einstürzende Neubauten) with the release of the “Incubus Succubus” single in 1982. It instantly became a post-punk classic. The guitar’s buzz ransacks through the melody as the ghoulish primitiveness of Huwe’s voice teases that maybe, just maybe, she is the nightmarish creature of which to be aware. The b-sides, “Zu Jung Zu Alt” and “Blut Ist Liebe,” keep strict militaristic dance beats as they teem in agitation.
That same year, the band performed in London as support for the Cocteau Twins; it was the platform they needed to ricochet into the arms of the ripped fishnet masses. Early Singles (1981-1982), is a map of the foundational movements of Xmal Deutschland, just seconds before takeoff. Bonus tracks on the compilation, “Kaelbermarsch” and a gritty live version of “Allein,” further accentuate their fusion of toughness with the quixotic decadence of atmospheric synthesizers. The band’s pursuit of something greater is palpable with this release, a reflection of a time that introduced accessibility to new means of making music following the onset of punk.
To me Anja is the gothic queen resurrected and this superb video of one of Xmals most infamous songs is awesome
soooo good. Had the biggest crush on Manuela Rickers back in the day when i first heard them working at a record store in '83.
Best unexpected surprise ever 😍
All this incredible footage needs to surface on its completion not just pieces
It's so good to hear Xmal Deutschland!
Full of anticipation for the upcoming releases !!
Xmal Deutschland IS MY LIFE !
I can't believe what I'm seeing ! What a perfect video !
It’s so good to see Xmal Deutschland on Sacred Bones 🤯🤯🤯
Saw Xmal in Edinburgh twice... Late 80s... Once supporting Stranglers. Xmal were like liquid! Incredible.
Great video, saw Xmal in 1984. Fantastic gig. Anja was such a great frontwoman.
Bought there album in 1997 I was 16 didn't know anything about underground music found them searching for music in a library. Still to this day Xmal Deutschland is my favorite deathrock band:)
wonderful testimony of early xmal what a treat!!
Iconic! ✨
I was literally shaking with excitement when i saw this song added to spotify. Had to check out the music video immediately 🖤🖤🖤
São Paulo. 2002.
São Paulo. 2024.
Along with Killing Joke Xmal are very probably my favourite all time band.
Bringing back great memories, looking forward to the new releases ❤
I love this! ❤❤💃💃
My heart ist still there...thx!
I've never added something to a cart faster :D viva Xmal
This song is my spirit animal and most listened to the past years.
Perfect balance on the edge of so many significant genres.
Completely beautifull ❤🥰
This is great!
I'm so happy to listen Xmal Deutschland.
To jest wspaniałe!
Jestem szczęśliwa, że słucham Xmal Deutschland.
Esta musica es monumental ,con clase, para volverse loco
I can’t even put into words how excited I am!!
Finally! a glorious comeback
Jetzt bitte noch "Inflation im Paradies" als Dvd, stream oder whatever... ❤❤❤
Prima Video! Erste Besatzung mit Caro May (drums), und Rita Simon (bass). Tolle Mädels!
I've been missing them for years 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
When I was still a teenager I can still remember buying a second hand copy of the album fetishe and spending the entire day playing it and getting wasted. I don't get wasted anymore. But I still have that album 😊
you can waiting your order and for long time!!!!!
🖤🖤🖤
Fantastic!
BR here 🇧🇷 2024
Souvenirs Souvenirs
😮 this is so amazing 🔥👌🖤👿
Eargasmic!!
Viva Xmal! Eternal! 🖤
Genial❤
Ganz toll! Some work went into this video, and it works wonders. Really hits the sweet spot.
🎧▶🎶🦇
Oh man, my 2nd fave Xmal song.
Fantastic!!! I see this and a lot of memories blow up just in my front! So good!!🖤🖤🖤
This is so great!
Larga vida Xmal Deutschland, una de mis bandas favoritas, saludos desde México 🤘🏻
F.I.E.R.C.E.
😮😮😮😮 perfect, just in time , love you verry much
So KOOL!!!
This song and this video is everything that the best music should be. Energy, change, identity, excitement and aliveness.
Absolutely brilliant ❤❤❤❤❤
This is absolutely savage . Fingers crossed for a rerelease of all the albums and a dvd (I don't ask for much do I 😊)
soo good
MY GENERATION !!!
LOVE!
Wow! A German Go-Go's
OMG thank you! 🖤🤍🖤
What a great band, fantastic sound !!
Really amazing!, greetings from Peru
BANGER!
looking forward
Xmal Deutschland - Allein (Official Music Video) 1253pm 10.1.24 even i have heard of this band....
Masterpiece!
This is sooo great!! I wish the I can hear the original performance of Allein, this one is from the Nosferatu Festival! But lovely done, I’ve never seen these photographs!! WOW!
I’m happy I have the originals LPs before price gauging!….
It's the mistakes in this performance that prove what a tight band they were. The way Anja growls at the volume spike. . .
Where is the studio version of Allein? I can't find it on any of the CDs.
@@michaelhmiles There isn’t unfortunately
@olracnaigodaniep3816
That's disappointing to hear.
Was Allein only performed live?
Was it a b-side on a single?
Please explain, thanks.
@@michaelhmiles It’s not the first song, there’s other Live songs the band never made it into a studio album, Sadly. Yes this song (Allein) is ONLY available of its existence live from Nosferatu Festival
^V^ So Great ThanX XMalDeutchLand ❤ LOVE U & Ur sound SO MUCH since a very very long time ❣^V^
I hope Viva and the Devils reissues aren't far behind
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🦋🎼❤️🔥🎼🦋
We lov ya Anja !
Awesome Xmal 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Легенды возвращаются!
Looking forward to this collection! I have a well played copy of the Nosferatu Fest comp and a couple of other releases from XD that I also wore out over the years.
Great!
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Kissessss from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 😘😘😘😘😘
If you like Sounds like Siouxsie/X mal Deutschland, listen to Düsseldorfs Asmodi Bizarr : Sunsierra album from 1986
Xmal Deutschland ❤
Esto es un manjar 🎶🖤
It took me a long time to get every piece of X-Mal material in vinyl, some of the Zick Zack ones took a while to track down. The completist in me has woken from a thirty year slumber... where do we get the vinyl from ?!
🇵🇪 Perú Vielen dank Xmal Deutschland,
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This fucking song is incredible
Before The opposition & Missing persons.
これは嬉しい！
:)
this is ENDGEIL
Quit the non-essentials, like social media, sex, alcohol, tobacco, dope, etc.! Du willst allein in der Wald sein.
I heard that before us goths where called goths we were referred to as posi-punks
But Goths are not punks...
When was this? I went to both Berlings in November 1982. The big thing in the west was Spliff (hard to find on Google: do you think I don't know how to roll a joint?), Karat in the east.
Pre wave
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LOVE!