Thursday, September 08, 2016

September 8 - Stella Maris

Tomorrow Nick Cave releases his album The Skeleton Tree, and today I am playing a song featuring one of the original members of Nick Cave's band The Bad Seeds. Blixa Bargeld formed Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980 as one of the early industrial bands. In 1996, while he was still a member of The Bad Seeds as well, they released Ende Neu, which is where today's song is taken from. Blixa Bargeld left Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, where he had played guitar and sung, in 2003, but he is still a member of Einstürzende Neubauten.

Todays song was written with his then wife, Meret Becker, who also sings and appears in the video. As usual, rhythm is central in this song, but this time it is the bouncing syllables that creates the rhythm in this beautiful song. Watch Blixa Bargeld and Meret Becker sing Stella Maris. And yes, the English translation of the lyrics is included.


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