Tango
1968 · pläne S 33 101 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Floh de Cologne
- Title
- Tango
- Release
- Vietnam
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- pläne # S 33 101
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Songwriter
- Floh de Cologne
- Genre
- Cabaret · Kabarett
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Credited to Floh De Cologne & Dieter Süverkrüp. Whole album is a political cabaret/collage about the Vietnam War. Scored for five speaking and singing voices, strings, brass, organ, bass, percussion, piano and guitars. Performers: Britta Baltruschat, Dieter Klemm, Dieter Süverkrüp, Gerd Wollschon, Hans-Jörg Frank, Markus Schmidt. Engineer Dietmar Liebich; recorded at Sonopress Tonstudio; sleeve notes and back photo Jens Hagen. 1995 CD reissue 'Mumien & Vietnam'. Collage from the album Vietnam built on quotations from Hitler, Springer, Henry Cabot Lodge, Sartre, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maxwell Taylor, McNamara and U Thant.
About the artist
West German political cabaret group whose 1968 album Vietnam, made with Dieter Süverkrüp, is a collage about the war for five speaking and singing voices.
Themes
Hitler · LBJ · McNamara · Satire · Anti-War · Anti-Imperialism
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]