Died Alan Vega, the singer of the iconic Suicide – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

Your music, although not mass influenced successive generations of music lovers and their live shows continue to be an example of how to act in the public LAN. Alan Vega, the singer and service provocative duo Suicide, died on Saturday aged 78, leaving orphaned Martin Rev, his sidekick.

It was one of the most influential figures of music and alternative culture that erupted in New York of the 1970s, when the teeming city of new ideas, with young people linked to the arts, cinema, dance or literature the calling into question rigid expressions, forming bands even without great technical learning.

in Martin Rev company produced the soundtrack of paranoia, joining the rock ghosts and Elvis Presley to a giant steamroller marked by anger but also the novel. In 2002, in an interview with Publico, Alan Vega, assumed he had grown up listening to and enjoying the 1960s song “I could not go to school had at home an Elvis Presley record to listen to. And Roy Orbison was the largest voice of all time, sings like an angel, an angel of God. “

Suicide were also of the first projects to describe their music as punk. Who saw them in concert over the years realize what they spoke. On stage, Alan Vega wore a provocative skin. It was common in their performances directly challenged assistance, challenging her, as if aggression could be the last human contact paper. Often the public is not kept and the conflict broke even.

It was this strain of performers . Someone who, all the time, trying to strengthen the relationship with the public, was to shake, or to be embraced by him. Looking back, it is still amazing to note the influence of the duo on part of the current song.

Nick Cave to Joy Division, Depeche Mode to Nine Inch Nails, the Daft Punk to LCD Soundsystem, of M.I.A. Peaches, Perfume Genius to Savages, is remarkable the number of groups that your music has been able to influence. His work began to take shape in 1977 with a self-titled album that is today a reference of electronic music and developed sparsely over three decades.

The news of the death of Vega was given by Henry Rollins, musician, artist and composer who also points Suicide as an influence. He wrote in his site that the singer – born as Boruch Alan Bermowitz to June 23, 1938 – “died peacefully in his sleep.” Vega was away from the stage since he suffered in 2012, a stroke. Besides working with the Suicide – the last original album is American Supreme , 2002 -., Also leaves a long discography solo and painting and sculpture works

“The Alan was not only relentlessly creative, writing and painting to the end, it was also surprisingly unique, “writes Henry Rollins, highlighting the” incredible and unclassifiable music “that produced with Martin Rev on Suicide. “The live confrontational performances, light years before punk rock, are a matter of legend.” “Alan Vega was the quintessential artist in every imaginable levels. He dedicated his whole life to express his vision imposed on him “, also praises Rollins in a note that begins qualify Vega as a” great artist “, a” creative force “, and ends with a compliment to his total dedication to art.

Alan Vega, Suicide grew to music at a time when the concepts of “do-it-yourself” punk avenged, but had in its action also a theatrical and artistic attitude, which is not surprising Vega has started in the art world, gaining notoriety for his light sculptures. The approach to the musical material of the double was simple: Rev created a minimalist electronic wave, hypnotic and dissonant with synthesizers, while Vega sang over a medium rockabilly record with topics such as Cheree , Dream baby dream , Ghost rider , Rocket USA or Frankie teartrop to become iconic. Despite its enormous influence, they never achieved great commercial results, which should not be oblivious of the fact that over the years have finished and restarted numerous times.

Therefore Alan Vega would release several albums soil, especially his 1980 self-titled album and Saturn Strip , 1983. the debut duo of Portugal took place in 1988, with concerts in the Convento do Carmo, Lisbon, and Rivoli Port. In 2004 they were to perform at the Paradise Garage in Lisbon. In an interview with Publico, two years before, at the launch of American Supreme , Alan Vega, he said:. “Suicide was not about our suicide but on the world suicide After 30 years we can say: see, we were thinking of suicide us! we were talking about the world suicide ‘. That is, the West, the longest suicide of all time. “