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Thursday, March 6th at 23.00, Klub Gromka»Pop« concert "Save the whales, overthrow the system," urges Gustav, laying out the path towards a non-consumptive way of life. "My father always wanted a boy," explains Eva Jantschitsch, "so he used to call me 'Gustav' until I was at least three." The 29-year-old Austrian fine arts student seems to translate anarchist praxis into audacious - yet intimate - synth rock. Though actually, there is a lot more to it. Unlike most post-Le Tigre satellites, whether rhyming along to Hakim Bey, droning against patriarchy, or recalling Carlo Guliani (who was killed at the GB conference in Genoa), Jantschitsch's approach is both non-reactionary and subtly humorous. Indeed, her sunny, heavily accented voice, wrapped in a digital orchestral sound, often cracks as if she can't help laughing, welled up with the belief that we can ultimately make a so-called 'better world'. "Let's keep it blurred and kitschy," she jokes. Radically individual, neither Eva Jantschitsch nor Gustav invariably triggers negotiations with connotations of the notion, the idea, and the image of 'woman' when she becomes an image on stage or in the media. It is an extremely schizophrenic position when Gustav is repeatedly thrown back to 'being-object' despite her intense 'becoming-subject'. "As a woman on the stage I am merely a concept...." Nina Spavatsky * Gustav's debut Rettet die Wale (2004, Mosz / Cargo Records) presents Eva Jantschitsch as a laptop song producer, instrumentalist and singer who can switch between German, English and French with ease. When performing live, she is often accompanied by musicians Oliver Stotz and Elise Mori. At Red Dawns fest, Gustav will deliver a solo performance which will also include songs from the upcoming second album Hallo Knallo! which is due for release in April 2008. . |
