VICTORY OF THE BETTER MAN " >L'utopiste< " (GER, 1991)

...victory of the better man is the result of a labour, not the result of a competition; it is the long neglected and unseen forces prevailing against easiness and any profitable "goodness"... [excerpt from KOROVIOV notes]

">L'UTOPISTE<" is the first work of the german ensemble VICTORY OF THE BETTER MAN. It created the years 1989-90 under the significant assistance of CMP's sound-engineer WALTER QUINTUS. Band's line up, that period, beside core members UK RATTAY (guitar, synth, various sounds) and ex-NECRONOMICON drummer HARALD BERNHARD (voice, percussion, keyboards) included MATTHIAS KRATZENSTEIN on bass, piano, keyboards, guitar and MARTIN FREDEBEUL on sax, flute, clarinet, piano, keyboards. (Additional musicians: MARC LEHAN on drums, percussion & PETRA SAHM on vocals).

>L'UTOPISTE< is a seductive mosaic of influences, a solution of recognisable but indivisible different densities. Avant poetic-operatic narrations of Harald Bernhard, bathed into fluid, unquiet, intellectual, jazz-impro atmosphere, recall artists like SCOT WALKER or KIP HANRAHAN, to mention only two... And, trully, an encounter of the schizophrenic universe of the former with the enigmatic after-hour eclecticism of the later, how hypothetical can really be?

VICTORY OF THE BETTER MAN works:

" >L'UTOPISTE< ", (CMP, 1991)

" ...WEGEN BROT ", (CMP, 1995)

" CITIZENS ", (rent a dog, 2004)



sample track: GONDOLA

track provided by KOROVIOV