bookmark The KLF by John Higgs

The story of the KLF is, without half measures, probably one of the most absurd stories known about a band.

At times incomprehensible and delirious, this book is capable of touching on many levels of reality that do not only concern music but also, why not, what for the human race is apparently unreal, what we consider alien to our life framework "as we have been taught". I am talking about symbols, of the "beyond reality", in a religious, esoteric and mystical, therefore spiritual sense.

At the beginning of the 90s, the KLF were among the most famous producers and pioneers of the then nascent electronic house genre (but not only, they experimented across various genres) with peaks that took them to the top of the charts throughout Europe. But there was an inexplicable fact in their career that pushed them to burn a million pounds. Why this crazy gesture, we still ask ourselves? The skilled John Higgs tries to answer this question with this book, as crazy as the events narrated; an intricate plot between conspiracy and magic rituals, exoterism, and secret societies where the multiple aspects of music emerge not only as art and pleasure.

Yes, because music is something else: it is something primordial, probably something that was before everything else and from which everything else was generated. Everything, every living being, every energetic compound has its own music that resonates in connection with a cluster of other musics that make up the symphony of our planet and our universe. So for this reason, music cannot be reduced to just an art; it is what the concept of creative capacity of nature and consequently of the human being is made up of. Music is the protagonist of the dance of humanity as creativity. This unconscious and infinite dance, however, also corresponds to a vital cage that forces the human being to submit and succumb to the cyclical and finite unawareness. Music therefore, represents all the emotions and passions of the human soul, outlining their relationship and various facets.

Leonardo Biagini

playlist

01. Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

02. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

03. A Lazarus Soul - The Flower I Flung Into Her Grave

04. The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral

05. Frankie Knuckles - Your Love

06. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

07. Mystic Force - Psychic

08. The Dubliners - Song for Ireland

09. Public Image Limited - Rise