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Vintage: Vinyl Original - Radio Werewolf: Boots/Witchcraft - A Tribute to the Sin-Atras
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Double cover 12" maxi single.
Side A "Boots" (These Boots Are Made For Walking) cover of Zeena by Austrian fetish photographer Helmut Wolech
Side B "Witchraft cover of Nikolas, art direction, make-up, design and photography by Zeena.
Excerpt from 2011 interview with Zeena and Nikolas Schreck for Obsküre Magazine by Maxime Lachaud
Obsküre: There was also this cover of ”These Boots Are Made For Walking”, which was very surprising at that moment. Was this song just a kind of joke or something much more seriously ironical with a special meaning?
Nikolas: ”Seriously ironical” is the mot juste. By that time, we’d endured years of right-wing Christian fundamentalist police and media harassment during the ”Satanic Panic” witch hunt. Our albums were declared ”Jügendgefährlich” (dangerous to youth) by the notoriously irony-free German government, thanks to some overly sensitive left-wing cultural commissars. And our reputation made us what Zeena called ”the world’s most banned band”, so that our concerts were carried out like secret military operations. Our Sinatra tribute had a deeper encoded meaning, but it’s also a deliberate self-parody of our image, a reaction to all of the heavy seriousness with which we were regarded. Black humor, sarcasm, and irony were always essential to the Radio Werewolf experience. But because we kept unsmiling poker faces throughout the public part of the rite, only those on our wavelength got the joke. Loki, a deity central to Radio Werewolf, is a trickster, a cruel cosmic comedian who breaks boundaries through laughter, mockery, and inappropriate behavior. As with our song ”The Last Laugh”, humor can serve a deadly serious purpose. What appears to be a joke can touch on hidden truths a more sober presentation wouldn’t get across. In describing Radio Werewolf to one interviewer, I quoted that line from a Bee Gees song that says, ”I started a joke that got the whole world crying.”
Zeena : On the most obvious level, my recording of "Boots" was having fun with our public image. But there was a special meaning too that was communicated in the entire package. Don't forget that we are magicians, and that every aspect of what we release has a specific alchemical balance, from the costume I designed and wore in the cover photograph to the precise location at which that photograph was taken. I can say that I was working with the energy that comes from mixing extreme hypereroticism with humor and fear. But as with all magic, a talisman like "Boots" achieves its desired effect on a subconscious level. So I'd defeat the purpose if I explained the "special meaning." One of the problems with the downloading of music originally issued on vinyl in a sleeve is that the listener only gets the song itself without the necessary context that the package provides. When the original recording was presented as a magical object of art, and you're only hearing a digital distillation of the sounds without even the correct accompanying image, then obviously the special meaning has been lost.
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Less than 10 remaining from the original supply maintained in Zeena's archives. Unlike others sold online, these are not second-hand or used but are being offered to your directly from the artists themselves.
Between 1988-1993 Zeena was Radio Werewolf’s co-director and served in the capacity of composer, musician, lyricist, singer, artist and art director.
All Radio Werewolf recordings on Zeena's discography bear her artwork and art direction on the CD/Vinyl cover designs and layout, including the Radio Werewolf/Werewolf Order logo.
Side A "Boots" (These Boots Are Made For Walking) cover of Zeena by Austrian fetish photographer Helmut Wolech
Side B "Witchraft cover of Nikolas, art direction, make-up, design and photography by Zeena.
Excerpt from 2011 interview with Zeena and Nikolas Schreck for Obsküre Magazine by Maxime Lachaud
Obsküre: There was also this cover of ”These Boots Are Made For Walking”, which was very surprising at that moment. Was this song just a kind of joke or something much more seriously ironical with a special meaning?
Nikolas: ”Seriously ironical” is the mot juste. By that time, we’d endured years of right-wing Christian fundamentalist police and media harassment during the ”Satanic Panic” witch hunt. Our albums were declared ”Jügendgefährlich” (dangerous to youth) by the notoriously irony-free German government, thanks to some overly sensitive left-wing cultural commissars. And our reputation made us what Zeena called ”the world’s most banned band”, so that our concerts were carried out like secret military operations. Our Sinatra tribute had a deeper encoded meaning, but it’s also a deliberate self-parody of our image, a reaction to all of the heavy seriousness with which we were regarded. Black humor, sarcasm, and irony were always essential to the Radio Werewolf experience. But because we kept unsmiling poker faces throughout the public part of the rite, only those on our wavelength got the joke. Loki, a deity central to Radio Werewolf, is a trickster, a cruel cosmic comedian who breaks boundaries through laughter, mockery, and inappropriate behavior. As with our song ”The Last Laugh”, humor can serve a deadly serious purpose. What appears to be a joke can touch on hidden truths a more sober presentation wouldn’t get across. In describing Radio Werewolf to one interviewer, I quoted that line from a Bee Gees song that says, ”I started a joke that got the whole world crying.”
Zeena : On the most obvious level, my recording of "Boots" was having fun with our public image. But there was a special meaning too that was communicated in the entire package. Don't forget that we are magicians, and that every aspect of what we release has a specific alchemical balance, from the costume I designed and wore in the cover photograph to the precise location at which that photograph was taken. I can say that I was working with the energy that comes from mixing extreme hypereroticism with humor and fear. But as with all magic, a talisman like "Boots" achieves its desired effect on a subconscious level. So I'd defeat the purpose if I explained the "special meaning." One of the problems with the downloading of music originally issued on vinyl in a sleeve is that the listener only gets the song itself without the necessary context that the package provides. When the original recording was presented as a magical object of art, and you're only hearing a digital distillation of the sounds without even the correct accompanying image, then obviously the special meaning has been lost.
______________________________________________________________________________________
Less than 10 remaining from the original supply maintained in Zeena's archives. Unlike others sold online, these are not second-hand or used but are being offered to your directly from the artists themselves.
Between 1988-1993 Zeena was Radio Werewolf’s co-director and served in the capacity of composer, musician, lyricist, singer, artist and art director.
All Radio Werewolf recordings on Zeena's discography bear her artwork and art direction on the CD/Vinyl cover designs and layout, including the Radio Werewolf/Werewolf Order logo.