BP STATEMENT REGARDING LIVE ACTION ON JULY 29 2015

Photo by Nikki Sneakers

On July 29th 2015 Breathing Problem performed at Nothing Changes in New York City... We were very excited to be given another chance to play at NC as it is known all over as an incredible showcase of amazing experimental and current electronic music all around...

At the beginning of our set there were some unfortunate technical difficulties... Usually (in our current set) we perform 4 traditional songs and then move on to a  performance we call 'Mouth to Mouth'... We have been perfecting this performance for the past few years in various iterations.. Some  people in NYC saw a different version of it on our last tour in November 2014... This version was more focused on the sounds of our microphone and the interplay of the mouth / throat and water / spit... But in the last 4 or 5 months we moved away from the water interplay and focused more on a physical reaction between both Emelia and Rusty...

On the 29th we decided we could not perform the best versions of our 4 songs due to the technical issues (no one's fault... there was an unknown malfunction in our gear)  we decided we could only perform 'Mouth to Mouth'...  We were already charged up and anxious and excited about performing at the location / event / crowd...But when the technical difficulties occurred it intensified these feelings even more...

We began the song on a mattress (the mattress is bare and on the stage in front of our gear) facing each other with a microphone in Emelia's mouth... Rusty wondered if this was the right decision ... No one had seen our previous songs and we usually "build" into the final track / performance..Usually during the 4th song Emelia gets on the mattress and signals Rusty to join her...Emelia decides when and if 'Mouth to Mouth' will begin or even if it will happen at all... On the 29th Rusty looked at Emelia and asked "should we stop?" she said "no, please.. we need to do this"... From there our performance was highly charged and intense... We decided to not hold back and to simply go as far as we could with our bodies and ourselves...

Mouth to Mouth is the act of taking what is ours in a private setting and placing it in a public setting to be shared...It is also an act of controlled violence between Emelia and Rusty ... We both enjoy the feeling of building intensity and sensory overload ...We both ultimately enjoy the feeling that this sensory overload and intensity is in our control and that we can start and stop it at ANY TIME WE DESIRE... We are the architects of the performance and we alone built it up conceptually and through repeated performances for years..

There is no political statement for us to make.. Again this is a performance and an act we have created and we enjoy performing in front of people that desire to see it...It is for our enjoyment above all else... We started this act privately and now it has leaked into the public sphere..

The only reason we have made this statement is to let people know what we do has always been a joint effort ..Any critique is appreciated and ignored... Any feelings of disgust or anger are appreciated and ignored... As artists we reserve the right to not put a trigger warning in front of our work / set...

Thank you to our friends, accomplices , comrades and those who support underground music and art.. You know who you are...

BREATHING PROBLEM 2015

Emelia McKay / Rusty Kelley

BRR MIX 2015

JAPANOISE AKA JAPANESE NOISE  MIX BY JOHNNY CASH AKA BREAKDANCING RONALD REAGAN ... GO OFF

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SOBERING MIX 2015

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OUTER SPACE by Peter Tscherkassky (1999. Austria)

"...Tscherkassky can seem to turn the violent force of disjointed narrative and avant-garde aesthetic into a villain of sorts: we see a young woman enter a small suburban home, surrounded first by an eerie calm... the woman is assaulted by broken images, the rumblings of the film itself (being torn and juxtaposed against itself). She screams in pain, seemingly raped and horrified by the narrative break. She seems to struggle against this chaos, however "the film itself screeches and tears as the sprockets and optical soundtrack violently invade the fictional world." It is irresistible."

ANGST (Directed by Gerald Kargl) (1983. Austria)

The PLOT:

A man is released from prison after serving four years for murdering an elderly woman. He quickly begins to feel the compulsion to kill again. After failing to murder a cab driver, he flees and discovers a secluded rural home, where a young woman lives with her sick mother and retarded brother. He then begins to take out his sadistic pleasures on them, attempting to hold them hostage, while thinking of his troubled childhood with his abusive mother and grandmother...

- Summary written by Brian Patrick



" (...) Kargl's genius here is to show everything in real time, with numerous close-ups and diegetic sound. Viewers get to experience none of the pleasure (whether guilty or gleefully acknowledged) that comes from watching stylized, aestheticized killing—replete with slow-motion camerawork, overlapping edits and a meticulously composed mise-en-scene. Instead, writer-cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczynski alternates close-up point-of-view shots of the victim and her attacker and some canted overhead shots besides, constantly altering our relationship to the action."

(...) What makes Angst so interesting, even important—and what those viewers hoping for the Austrian equivalent of Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal are bound to miss—is the fact that the film's numerous "failures" are precisely what constitutes its success. Not only the failures of the killer, whose grand scheme amounts to nothing more than three chaotic and wholly undignified murders. So too the failures of the director, who satisfies none of the genre's conventions, and who eschews the popular tradition of romanticizing the serial killer, of turning him into a sort of neo-Gothic anti-hero.

(...) Even more than Michael Rooker's Henry (modeled on prolific US multiple murderer Henry Lee Lucas)—a character described by at least one commentator as a "Marlon Brando/James Dean angry young rebel, complete with pout, mumbles, short curly hair, square jaw, and white T-shirt" Rudolf Götz's Werner Kniesek-inspired sociopath comes frighteningly close to providing us with a true "portrait" of a serial killer. And if we find that portrait less than appealing, and Angst that much more difficult to take because of it, this only speaks to the film's haunting power and strikingly original construction."

- from "A different kind of killer" by Steven Jay Schneider

"As noted earlier, ANGST’s dramatic structure is reduced to only a very small amount of narration: we are simply shown the killer’s murder spree on his one and only day of freedom. What might cause some empathy with this dangerous character—his own first-person-narration—in fact functions to alienate the viewer even more. This because the voice-overs simply double on the verbal level the monstrous incidents shown to us in all their graphic horror. Through the use of this technique, the film creates a distance between audience and protagonist that never really subsides. The murder sequences may be visually shocking, but they are also deeply reflective. Kargl avoids providing any type of entertainment, conventional thrill, or suspense. In fact Kargl and Rybczynski seem to believe that entertainment through stalk’n’slash splatter films is a sign of cynicism and should be avoided. As a result, they have tried to develop a directing method marked by intellectual distance. Austria is a true middle-class society, and the greatest fear of the middle class is the invasion of the bourgeois home by unpredictable elements, be they of foreign origin—this is where racism comes into play—or be they mentally ill. ANGST’s killer eventually belongs to the same bourgeois background as his choice of victims. This would seem to be the real Austrian nightmare."

favorites of 2009

lp

rusted shut - dead (load)
halflings - self esteem lp (rrr)
endless humiliation - my wife is willing lp (peel back the sky/ ahaziah)
salvation - of unforgiving wind lp (youth attack)
gun outfit - dim light (ppm)
grunt - petturien rooli cd (freak animal)
sky juice - above the law (old english spelling bee)
peste noire - ballade cuntre lo anemi francor cs (de profundis)
arizmenda - within the vacuum of infinity... cs (crepusculo negro )
xeno and oaklander - sentinelle lp (wierd)
dry rot - philistine lp (parts unknown)
cold cave - love comes close lp (heartworm)
werewolf jerusalem - the flies of our tragic dear cd (breathing problem)
slogun - bloody roots cd (trash ritual / circle of shit)
wolf eyes - always wrong lp (hospital)
pedestrian deposit - austere cd (monorail tresspassing)
secret abuse - the immeasurable gift lp (arbor)

ep / split / demo

yellow tears - don't cry 12" (hospital)
prurient + wilt - blood of the lamb 12" (bloodlust!)
ash pool - saturn's slave 7" (hospital)
drunkdriver + mattin - a profound list of insecurities 12" (bad master)
drunkdriver - fire sale 7" (fashionable idiots)
bone awl - night's middle 7" (klaxon / nwn )
cirrhus - demo 08 cs (klaxon)
roman cross - make graves the homes of men cs (yoke of christ)
raspberry bulbs - finally burst cs (self released)
torture chain - mountains of hate cs (razors and medicine)

reissue

arthur doyle - alabama feeling (rank and file)
mauthausen orchestra - they never learn lp (trash ritual)
macronympha - pittsburgh, pennsylvania cd (trash ritual)
nyogthaebliz - apocryphal progenitors of mankind's tribulation lp + cd (satanic skinhead propaganda)
volahn - dimensiónes del trance kósmico lp (klaxon)
von - satanic blood angel 2xlp (nwn)
cremation - black death cult lp (nwn)

OUT

COUNTRY CLUB - THE PIGS UNSCATHED 2XLP
35 dollars ppd.

14 songs. power electronics. 100 copies. no repress.

70 left.

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"In a sea of power electronic bands lacking any character, Country Club’s “The Pigs Unscathed” does not disappoint. The vocal style could be compared to some Con-Dom vocals, Brethren or perhaps vocals from Institut’s “The Struggle Never Ended.” Musically, The Grey Wolves could be a comparison, but Country Club sounds less muddy. The group has a unique take on sound and arrangement with shorter tracks that make for a diverse listening experience. The focus is less on ear-splitting noisiness and more on creating unique songs that fit the subject. I love the variety of sounds accompanied by the upfront vocals full of emotion and intensity. Many of the tracks have a cloudy atmosphere, bringing to mind the sight of dirt clouds and smoke at Ruby Ridge.

Every U.S. citizen should know about Ruby Ridge. The incident is brought to life by the sounds of Country Club – foreboding synthesizers that seem to foreshadow the coming madness, machine-like rhythms that bring to life the FBI vehicles as they barrel through the forest, ear-piercing feedback reminiscent of the deafening ear-ringing that accompanies screaming and gunfire, the volatile vocal attacks telling the shocking tale and the shotgun-blasting rhythms that take you into the thick of one of the most shameful pages in American history.
If there is one power electronic album to not miss out on this year,

Country Club’s debut is it. Don’t get caught unarmed."

to hear a sample:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gf9aa8

STILL AVAILABLE

BREATHING PROBLEM - mattress on the floor CS + box
WHITE DOG - beer guzzle cs
+ more

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