David Jackman - Verhalte Dich Ruhig flac album

Here it is finally, the perfect assemblage of absurd cliche's collected by Organum's David Jackman.The cover implicates some dark and sinister thoughts as does the title. 'Verhalte Dich Ruhig' could be translated as 'Keep yourself calm' or corresponding; 'Duck and cover'. The Picture might been taken in a concentration camp or some complete harmless old house in Germany but you'll never know for sure. The old tactics of anti-information are omnipresent here, artist, title, catalogue number, label name and that's it - everything else is grey (besides the same picture in the inlet once more in case you've spilt your cup of coffee over the sleeve accidently or your young nice made it look nicer with the addition of crayon painted flowers).Of course this CD is limited and with a total playing time of just about 30 minutes properly split in two parts of equal length which could have been perfect for a multi-color 10" vinyl release the value for money question arises once more. But is it only the length that counts ? Then there's the music; at first I thought it's some fooling around with neo-classical elements but after listening more closer I'm pretty sure it's taken completely of some of Hollywood's Golden Era productions, might be Alfred Hitchcock, might be something completely different - I can't tell exactly not being the greatest movie freak around but that's where the looping and multi-layering tactics here have their basic material from. All the kitsch, the pathetic over-emotional glory, drama and the unreal passion is displayed for the sake of entertainment and it actually works as a quite comforting soundtrack to various daily duties as any good pop music should do.The same music packed in some nice baby pink and light blue artwork with some lighthearted design of 1940's girls or movie scenario would have made more sense but probably this is his special sense of humor which isn't meant to reach everyone at first hint or as I said above he just wants to point his finger on today's avantgarde cliche's and have a laugh on his own.[Reviewed for The Brain in 2002]