Mysterious and bizarre, this tape-only split release was released locally in Gothenburg in assumingly extremely small numbers in 1982. It's hard to say what genre it actually is except that DeDe's 10 minute portion is poetry reading. DeDe (real name André Carlsson) was reputedly a regional underground legend of sorts, but his poetic talent is limited. His poems here (some of them recorded in front of an audience) concern the bleakest side of a grey concrete society, but he fails to come up with much apart from clichés about a pitiful suburbian life in Sweden in the early 80s. Some long 10 minutes right there.
Part one of the tape is wasted on The Audience, apparently a duo consisting of Hans and Edgar (”the true mods” according to the tape card). One of them beats anti-rhythmically on drums (occasionally anti-rythmically strumming an acoustic guitar) while the other one recites seemingly improvised lyrics about... what exactly? A whopping 32 tracks are listed on the cover (one of them written by Lou Reed, or so it says) but running for a mere 24 minutes, it's hard to call them actual songs. It's more like a fatiguing flow of complete nothingness, like a cross between Malaria and an Imp.Ink totally devoid of any tension, talent or musicality. A vaporous miasma from the lowest sediments of underground culture.
Sometimes dubbed ”post punk”,
sometimes ”electronic”, ”Världsvan nervositet” is neither.
The true genre name is ”utter rubbish”, and I'd be thrilled to
hear why the guy on Discogs who paid almost 80 quid for this shit
paid almost 80 quid for this shit. Grab a random artifact at your
nearest garbage dump and it will be both better and cheaper.
Full tape
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