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They’re serious – with a firm tongue in cheek! Smack in the middle of the techno and electro metropolis that is Berlin, Lord Mouse and his cast of international musicians and German Fräulein singers are working hard on reviving traditional calypso from the Caribbean islands – in equal measures rootsy and up-to-date.
Cool hats, stylish suits; flashy dresses, big hairdos! It might have been a healthy reaction to all the low-profile hipsterisms that made Berlin the ruling capital of the international slacker world so effectively in the years since the Wall came down. Then again, there’s strong historical parallels to Berlin’s golden age of the Roaring Twenties, too: those were the days when calypso had its best time internationally and the Weimar Republic almost exploded in one great big excess of sex and drugs and rock’n’roll in its Goldenen Zwanzigern.
Either or both – it’s probably not a mere accident that Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz happened to come into existence where they did – in Berlin. Especially since Lord Mouse is an American expatriate, his band from six more nations, his Charming Vocal Sextet a flock of German Fräuleins, and the music of their choice originally a style originating among Afro-Caribbean slaves before growing to its international via global dancing on the volcano in the Roaring Twenties. Everything from anywhere and every age at the same time – that’s just the way it is with Berlin in the 21st century.
Cool hats, stylish suits; flashy dresses, big hairdos! It might have been a healthy reaction to all the low-profile hipsterisms that made Berlin the ruling capital of the international slacker world so effectively in the years since the Wall came down. Then again, there’s strong historical parallels to Berlin’s golden age of the Roaring Twenties, too: those were the days when calypso had its best time internationally and the Weimar Republic almost exploded in one great big excess of sex and drugs and rock’n’roll in its Goldenen Zwanzigern.
Either or both – it’s probably not a mere accident that Lord Mouse and the Kalypso Katz happened to come into existence where they did – in Berlin. Especially since Lord Mouse is an American expatriate, his band from six more nations, his Charming Vocal Sextet a flock of German Fräuleins, and the music of their choice originally a style originating among Afro-Caribbean slaves before growing to its international via global dancing on the volcano in the Roaring Twenties. Everything from anywhere and every age at the same time – that’s just the way it is with Berlin in the 21st century.
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