Black Sun Productions - operettAmorale - CD (DivF01)

Words by Bertolt Brecht

Music by Kurt Weill, Pierce & Massimo and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo

With the special participation of Coil, Lydia Lunch, HR Giger and The Slow Club Orchestra

1. Brothel Tango
2. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (feat. Lydia Lunch)
3. Pimp Ballad
4. Ratschläge (einer älteren Fohse an eine Jüngere)
5. Seeräuber-Jenny (feat. HR Giger)
6. Johnny Over The Sea
7. La canzone dei pendagli da forca
8. A List Of Wishes (by Coil)
9. Ballade von der Höllenlili
10. Über die Verführung von Engeln
11. What Keeps Mankind Alive?

Cover artwork by HR Giger

Massimo & Pierce of Black Sun Productions are notorious for their collaboration with Coil in some of the band's most iconoclastic live installations as well as for their epic performance project Plastic Spider Thing.

operettAmorale is Massimo & Pierce's personal tribute to the poetry of German poet, playwright and thinker Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956). The album is composed of 11 classic Brecht's songs, here revisited according to Massimo & Pierce's irreverent attitude. Massimo & Pierce invited some of their friends to contribute to operettAmorale. Coil recorded the song A List of Wishes (one of the latest studio performances of Johnn Balance, whom passed away short after this recording) purposely for this album. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is here delivered by the incomparable voice of Lydia Lunch and HR Giger contributed with the cover artwork and a vocal cameo appearance on Seeräuber-Jenny.

operettAmorale was produced by Massimo & Pierce in collaboration with Larsen's member Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, whom also provided some original music and the acoustic arrangements. Among the musicians whom participated to operettAmorale's recording sessions are Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons) and Marco Schiavo (Larsen).