EDGAR WINDHUND BANDE, Traenengas, 1982

Found this privately pressed 45 at my neighborhood flea market a while back. The seller said it was “kinda punk”. It´s a mish-mash of punk/new wave-influenced ROCK, specific to a lot of local bands in the  late 70s and early 80s, when Berlin was punk capital.

Drummer Reinhard “Wurzel” Stey, who wrote both of these songs, came from an older generation of rock musicians. Since 1970, he had played in Panko Musik and later in Tontransport. Stey was also co-founded the first Berlin rock organization. According to rockinberlin.com, he died at an unknown date.

Edgar Windhund Bande released the tape “Ohne Liebe…Keinen Hass” in 1981 on their own Getto SO36 Produktionen label and this,  their sole 45. Traenengas is a strange love song: “On Tuesday after the demo – I was lusting for you/ Fog is separating us –  I can´t see you/ I can´t see the sun – only flashing blue light/ … / Teargas, teargas, teargas…”

 

EDGAR WINDHUND BANDE, Traenengas, 1982

Grunewald forest is the largest green area in the city of Berlin. Still, the chorus of the song goes: ” The forest is much too small/ Concrete everywhere”

EDGAR WINDHUND BANE, Grunwald, 1982

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