THE CULTURE IN MEMORIAM: Abolish History, This is Our Story
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As a five-year-old, Victor Håkansson
travelling around with a theatre-society, playing the tambourine. Some
time has passed since and today Victor is twenty-one years old. His interest
in music has grown and his talent has developed. The early days on the
road have been followed by more, mainly on minor tours by himself, but
also with“TheAnimal Five” as a stand-in guitarist –
in between the bloody riots. His debut-record “Nietzsches Ex”was
paid tribute to by critics. What Victor produces in music exposes a true
feeling of alienation. His work reveals a torn mind in its actual state
and explores a thirst for life and a sense of furiousness against capitalism.
The decadent currents turn into an act of pavestone pop, bound to tempt
the senses of the listener. With this musical project called “The
Culture in Memoriam” Victor has found his own way and dares to believe
in his devoutly rancid, but enchantingly vulnerable voice. The extolled
debut as a topic at Metica.se: ”Victor looks like Ziggy Stardust,
sings like Bowie and writes songs which combine the ironies of Frank Zappa
with the seriousness of Nick Drake…”and further: “…the
text material from “Nietzsches Ex” is nothing less than pure
literature. Victor mixes the revolutionary anger from the workers blocks
in his hometown with the rabid scepticism of postmodernism against the
great stories of the ideologies. ” The new album “Abolish
History - This is our Story” is in many ways similar, in style and
structure, to “Nietzsches Ex”, with its intense honesty, cynical
yearn for love and its adamant politics. Although the new work contains
great sets of instruments and grandiose brass sections, the grandness
does not step on the fantastic presence of minimalism or the proper niche
of the entire project: the choking frankness. The live act of “The
Culture in Memoriam” consists of musicians from more established
bands as well as musicians from less established bands. The essential
set of drums, bass and guitar together with trumpet, percussion, melodica
and ukulele achieves a compact unit, and the band is eager to please the
audience and does its utmost to do so at each and every performance. Victor
considers politics to be love and vice versa, and a love-song by him won’t
leave you indifferent. All of the songs on the album are tributes to the
life beyond the factory, or with Victor’s own words: “Our
lives are being reduced to work, we have to reclaim the concepts...”.
“Life should be synonymous to creative poetry and pure materialistic
realization...” You shouldn’t try to cut this piece of rough
diamond. This music should be taken for what it is and it should not be
heard, but listened to. The distribution of the first release was taken
care of by “Sound pollution”. /A friend of his
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