Hello good people and welcome to this very special episode of Peeling The Onion.

I had the immense honour of sitting down with one of my favourite artist of all time, Blixa Bargeld. Blixa has been making cutting edge art for nearly 45 years (next April 1st will mark Neubauten’s first concert). 

He was a part of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from the groups inception until 2003 and in recent years he has been teaming up with Italian artist Teho Teardo. The duo released their 3rd album, Christian & Mauro,  last October the 25th.

I met Blixa backstage at Le Bikini in Toulouse ahead of their 3rd to last concert of an almost two month tour where they were supporting the new Einstürzende Neubtauen double album Rampen (apm: alien pop music) - which is another one of their masterpieces. 

In the interview Blixa talks about the making of the new Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld album and how it connects with their personal lives and the spirit of the times as well as the writing process. We touched upon socialism, living with the pandemic, the change in his voice, his recordings of Bowie songs and hate for saxophones and how Neubauten is beyond good and evil.

I sat down with Blixa over a zoom call for an hour and a half last March 25th which went extremely well, so if you haven’t seen that you can get it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kkJn7pPuE4&t=72s or here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/73JQYuudZxEh73KJEtiFhQ?si=gCSb80FvTPCJsifwKW4www 

This conversation was recorded on a Zoom H6 portable recorder.

All the best !

Elvar

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