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The Black Eg
10+ albums
new wavealternativepost-punkPost punk
about
Psych sampling alter ego of Pat (Jazz Butcher) Fish. More from Jazz Butcher's Official Site: Karel Von Dämmerung, writer, adventurer and self-proclaimed beacon of the bohemian gonzo faction, has long been a legend in the seedier cafes of central Europe. For many years his extraordinary fanzine Sinful Beat provided a lifeline to those in Czechoslovakia and Hungary who wanted to keep abreast of international music developments, while his own reckless encounters with authority provided both hilarity and inspiration to the inhabitants of grimly over-protective regimes. Unlikely tales of his personal crusade on the frontiers of modern pharmacology are legion, and there was a time when he said to be known by sight to some two thirds of all the members of the Czechoslovakian secret police. Karel left his native land and settled in Vienna in 1985 after being refused re-entry at Prague airport by the authorities. The word is that, returning from some partially legitimate 'Cultural Exchange' trip to Cuba, he caused havoc at the Customs desk by presenting the official with a large bag of high grade ganja and announcing his intention to import two live Pygmy Crocodiles. Somehow he succeeded in obtaining Political Refugee status in Austria, where for the first time he was able openly to publish his deranged writings. Early in 1989 two events occured which led to the formation of the combo whose first waxings you are now holding. First, Karel's two brothers, Otto and Emil, arrived in V