Walter Samuel
Abridged analytical notes on the film music of Klaus Harmony.
Hamburg, 1997
Changes in attitude between genders in the late sixties were not lost on Friedrich Wohlfäht and Elektrische Lippen embraced such shifting paradigms along with many key socio-political aspects of the age. The scene in which a teenage student is seduced by the wife of his principal plays deftly with the expectations of the audience, inverting the convention in dramatic terms. Klaus Harmony’s Weiß Deine Mutter Wo Du Bist? underscores Ralph's [Dexter ‘Staniforth’ Baxter-Jeavons] reminiscence of both this first sexual encounter, and the mayhem which ensues as his school principal [Esbjörn Poskett] walks in on the illicit union. The first, adagio section of the piece pays homage to JS Bach and is rich in numerological references - though a thesis of any depth has yet to be published in this regard. The allegro, development section features the sound of a whip, performed and recorded by Jan Sink.