V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Improvised Roberto Bellatalla on double bass

Roberto Bellatalla on double bass

the chromatic slink of Chris and Cosey whilst also bearing a degree of fruit birthed from Hallbäck's home country Sweden in skewered pop such as The Knife

Fall Paths is a florescent cup of warm nostalgic soup fit for any contemporary starchild or drifter

aligning themselves with bands from Chicago

evoking a communal transcendence in sound – a hypnotic swirl that doesn't swing

V/A – United States Of Melancholia - Part I - Post Punk GDR 1982 - 1990 DLP Improvised Roberto Bellatalla on double bassThe political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title "United States Of Melancholia" refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising facade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheer