S.Y.P.H. – S.Y.P.H. LP

Beschreibung

With their unpre­dic­ta­ble live per­for­man­ces and songs such as ‘Zurück zum Beton’ and
‘Indus­trie­mäd­chen’, S.Y.P.H. cau­sed a ruckus at the end of the 70s – as one of the bands that began to wri­te lyrics in Ger­man around Düsseldorf’s Ratin­ger Hof. Right from the start, the band bro­ke with gen­re-con­for­mist expec­ta­ti­ons and bor­ro­wed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dada­ism and the rea­li­ty of ever­y­day life. Now, a reis­sue sheds light on S.Y.P.H.’s first crea­ti­ve pha­se from 1977 to 1982. On Decem­ber 6th 2024, Tape­te Records releases the „Pure Freu­de Sin­gles“ inclu­ding pre­vious­ly unre­leased songs and the self-titled album „S.Y.P.H.“ (inclu­ding ‚Zurück zum Beton‘). Three fur­ther re-releases, two of them pro­du­ced by CAN’s Hol­ger Czu­kay, will fol­low in 2025.

S.Y.P.H. for­med in 1977 in Solin­gen and began play­ing con­certs in near­by Düs­sel­dorf. Initi­al­ly cle­ar­ly based on punk, the band’s sound quick­ly deve­lo­ped and beca­me incre­asing­ly dif­fi­cult to cate­go­ri­se. In the inten­si­ve years that fol­lo­wed, S.Y.P.H.’s pro­duc­tions often fea­tured guests from the Düs­sel­dorf sce­ne around Ratin­ger Hof or CAN’s Hol­ger Czukay.

While around 1980, punk and Neue Deut­sche Wel­le (Ger­man New Wave) were soli­di­fy­ing as sup­po­sedly clear-cut con­cepts, S.Y.P.H.’s music testi­fied to the blur­ri­ne­ss of gen­re boun­da­ries: alre­a­dy on the first, self-titled LP, the band belts out short pun­ky songs like “Zurück zum Beton” and “Lach­leu­te und Nett­men­schen”, while the B‑side sur­pri­ses with more than ten-minu­te long Kraut-inspi­red pieces.

01. Zurück zum Beton
02. Industrie-Mädchen
03. Lach­leu­te & Nettmenschen
04. Unreif für die Zukunft
05. Mercedes
06. Chess Challenger
07. What happens?
08. Heu­te Norm – mor­gen Tod
09. Partir
10. Kein Ziel
11. Kisuaheli
12. Ohne Viel