The Local Moon

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The name The Local Moon originated from an intimation by the oriental jester Nasreddin that every city had its own moon. This idea did not go without a certain local colour in the bipolar frontline city of Berlin; from an astropolitical view, its divided sky never saw a full moon, the light conditions were ideologically broken. From the black light of those years emerged The Local Moon. René Le Doil and Ronald Lippok took wings like two crows from a pigeon’s nest when quite suddenly in 1987 light entertainment permeated East Berlin’s Offground and the two musicians were hired for the New Romantic revue New Affair. Before that, Le Doil had been involved in the Stattgespräch fashion spectacle and in Allerleirauh, the “thing of light, space, sound and leather”. Lippok had been the drummer for Rosa Extra, one of the earliest punk rock bands in East Berlin. Together with his brother Robert, who had already come into the picture with an avant-punk project named after the Jules Verne novel Fünf Wochen im Ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), Ronald Lippok then founded the post-punk commune Ornament & Verbre- chen, for whom Le Doil would occasionally guest as an organist. The first night songs by The Local Moon were created in the shadows of a bright enthusiasm around New Affair. They were eventually recorded in Le Doil’s flat. Avoiding a fixed approach, Lippok and Le Doil would move the equipment around all the rooms of the flat to create different moods at various latitudes and lo

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The Local Moon

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Spannung Leistung Widerstand

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Ende vom Lied: East German Underground Sound 1979 - 1990

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Spannung. Leistung. Widerstand. Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979 - 1990

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Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand (Disc 1)

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Aufbruch . Umbruch . Abbruch - Die Letzten Jahre

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Ende vom Lied: East German Underground Sound 1979-1990

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Ende vom Lied - East German Underground Sound 1979 - 1990

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Spannung, Leistung, Widerstand [Disc 1]

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Spannung. Leistung. Widerstand. - Magnetbanduntergrund DDR 1979 -1990

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GDR Undergroundtapes 1980-1990

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