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DEUTSCH NEPAL DEUTSCH NEPAL from Sweden is the solo industrial-ambient project of Lina Der Baby Doll General and has issued four CDs and a 7" as well as contributing to various compilations including a split CD with In Slaughter Natives, now sold out, and another with The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud, which is reviewed on their page in FLUX. DN also has two tapes out on the Italian label, Old Europa Cafe, entitled Only Silence Among The Filthy and The Silent Earth. There's also a single called Dentist Environmental on Ant-Zen, as well as the The Very Top Of Lina Baby Doll LP, which was sold at the Nevers festival in 1995. My introduction to DN came when the General kindly provided copies of the first three Deutsch Nepal CD albums: Deflagration of Hell (1992 Staalplaat STCD050), Benevolence - Flogging Satan Alive (1993 Cold Meat Industry CMI 21 CD) and Tolerance - How The Servant Utilized His Masters (1994 Staalplaat 67) These CDs stand as exemplars of the industrial-ambient genre. When first trying to review them I listened to all of them several times. While they do, of course, differ in detail, I initially found it very difficult to distinguish between them in any meaningful way. This is partly due to the effect they have on the listener. After a while your rational concentration lapses under the onslaught of the repititive ritualistic effect and at least a part of your mind goes into a hypnotic trance. And this was without the evening impact of bičre de garde or the flow of heavy, blood-red wine. Deflagration of Hell began life on cassette in 1991, and when reissued by Staalplaat in CD format, the order of the track names was unfortunately mixed up. The correct order is 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6. The second track is a really grating sound calculated to put you on edge and had me reaching for another swig of strong ale. Fighting the compelling attraction to suspend rational thought and simply undergo the experience, I did notice that track 2 on Benevolence sounded like Richard Strauss performed by Laibach, while track 3 had an Arabic quality which introduced a more organic element happily relieving the more purely industrial-orientated material. Also quite memorable was the first track on Tolerance which combines whinnying horses with the steady rhythm of machinery. This CD is said to be harsher and to represent DN's future direction. Influenced by techno/dance music, it is in places more immediate (i.e. shallow), but deeper, more atmospheric soundscapes persist. ˇCOMPRENDIDO!ˇComprendido! (1997 Cold Meat Industry CMI 49 CD) features material spanning the years 1992-1996 and is, naturally, more varied than the other albums. If not quite relaxing, it does seem less agitating than some of the material on the earlier releases. At times very minimalist, the whispered vocals create an intimate, claustraphobic effect. Voices and horns on 'The Phlegethon Fish' are provided by The Moon lay hidden. Besides Deutsch Nepal, Lina has a side-project called Frozen Faces. There's one FF LP out called Broken Sounds Of A Dying Culture, and it's said basically to be a harsher version of DN... Lina is one of the best exponents of the genre and we look forward to hearing more of his music in whatever guise he cares to develop. Rik Dated: 6 October 1996. Last updated: 10 February 1998. CONTACTThe CDs are available directly from: Deutsch Nepalische Generalstab
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