01 Frontline Combat

03 Telegraph Talk

02 Teenage Caveman

04 The Guns Of Navarone

Propaganda Ministern were born in 2015 in one of the most culturally depressing and deprived areas in the whole Europe. Their minimalist, haunting and apocalyptic sound signature draws its own tugging path towards the reincarnation of those tips peaked by some of the notably oddest artists of the 20th century. Among them, Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, Neu!, Ramones, Suicide, Devo, Joy Division, Flipper, Killing Joke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Shellac of North America. They are cought on some sort of compelling motivation for a third millennium ideological nihilism, which comes with a featureless habit to the workings of consumerism. The frustrations stemming from that background are overtly expressed by the painstakingly regressive, compulsive repetition of uncanny, decontextualized slogans and archetypal anatema. On an edge between onanism and catharsis, they unnervingly stick to empty formulas and to the symbolic remains found among the twentieth-century totalitarian regimes and military catastrophes, among counter-cultures and the punk rock scene, without overlooking the mass propaganda strategies of the democratic individualism era. 

I Propaganda Ministern nascono nel 2015 in una delle zone culturalmente più depresse d’Europa. Minimalisti, ricorsivi, ossessivi, apocalittici, mirano a resuscitare ed emulare le vette raggiunte da alcuni dei più bizzarri artisti del XX secolo. Tra gli altri Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, Neu!, Ramones, Suicide, Devo, Joy Division, Flipper, Killing Joke, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Shellac of North America. Ammorbati dal nichilismo ideologico del terzo millennio e pienamente assuefatti alla logica del consumo, manifestano le proprie frustrazioni nella ripetizione regressiva e compulsivo-maniacale di slogan decontestualizzati e anatemi archetipici. Tra onanismo e catarsi, aderiscono irrazionalmente a formule vuote e carcasse simboliche, che scovano, più o meno sepolte, tra i totalitarismi novecenteschi e le catastrofi belliche, nel punk-rock e nelle controculture, nelle strategie di persuasione di massa dell’era democratico-individualista.

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