Butzmann, Frieder/diamanda Galas
Juhrop (2cd Box)
'SZENE UND ARIEN AUS EINER OPER IN KLINGONISCHER SPRACHE' - The opera 'juHrop' was recorded with great effort at the Studio für Komische Musik Berlin and at the studio of Diamanda Galas in New York from 1996 to 2001. It is orchestral music produced with electronic devices and voices of Chinese singer Wu Jiang, David Moss, Diamanda Galas, Udo Scheuerpflug, Margarete Huber and the Moabiter Motettenchor. It was broadcasted in full length on 'Deutschlandradio Kultur' in 2009. "The Klingons are martial bullheads. They are known as the warlike people from the planet Thlingan from the TV series 'Star Trek.' But the Klingons also love music and poetry. Their greatest poet was Shakespeare from Earth, who was supposedly one of their own. The Klingon opera 'juHrop' (pronounced tschuch-rop, meaning homesickness) plays unrestrainedly with timpani and trumpets on a heroic monumental orchestra, enriched by synthetic Gregorian chants and electronic hi- and lofi effects. The story is as bloodthirsty and heartbreaking as its setting. The vocals are Klingon and Chinese." (Frieder Butzmann).