Artist description Solipsist Nation! Solipsist more than all else. Solipsist before all else. This is our most primal foundation. This is where we dwell. This is the first; this is last and shall be ever more! These, the geographries of our temple. These, the parameters of our play-ground. These the barbed wire of our battle-field.Solipsist is ours and ours only! Here we live, love and perpetuate. Here is our refuge from the enemy. Here is mandated eternal vigilance without and within. Here abides the phantom image of the world that is lost. Solipsist shall not be found in the center it is ever lost in the periphery. Being NON-place and NON-time it defies perceivable orbits. Though our hearts may be rooted in its soil our feet don’t touch its surface.Existant, yet not perceived Solipsist is the seed--the sapling taking root--Eternally the seed--Eternally taking root. Solipsist is a child.Solipsist is our passport. Solipsist is our constitution. Solipsist is our licence and the enactment of our will. Solipsist is our father's land. Solipsist is our sovereignty!

Music Style Nihilist Industrial/Apocalyptic Neo Folk

Musical Influences Death in June, Strength Through Joy/Ostara, Current 93, Throbbing Gristle, Boyd Rice/NON, Fire and Ice, Sol Invictus, Skinny Puppy

Artist History Began in 1997 as a Solipsist and Nihilist movement.

Group Members b9 InViD: Vox, Lyrisch, guitars, synthesizers, sequencing, trumpet. j1 Statik: Vox, Lyrisch, bass, guitar, synthesizers

Albums International Condemnation, Live in Feraland, The World That is Lost (ep), Hot Snake at the Back (7 in. vinyl split with Nookleptia),The Trepan of the Clock, Horologia Ferrea

Press Reviews LUFTWAFFE Sunday 7/14, Empty Bottle Stage shtick might not seem like a dangerous thing to take too far, but the members of Luftwaffe have without a doubt passed the point of no return. J1 Statik and B9 Invid are a self-styled two-man nihilist militia, adhering to the credo "Solipsist before all else." They live in a world where, according to the printed "lyrisch" for "Ideoscape in Pluroform," "The Monarch, God, and Empire are fictions generated by the plurarch" (the band's term for an all-encompassing evil akin to a conspiracy theorist's "They," which can only be defeated by a "fascist renaissance"). Luftwaffe have an unfortunate penchant for Latin incantations and stilted language--"he compacts the soma he amputates the psyche"--but you can't fault their follow-through. In the late 90s they tracked down notorious fascist, satanist, and all-around misanthrope Boyd Rice (aka noise artist Non) to contribute vocals to a few tracks, and in 2000 collaborated with him for a live show; their self-released discs are solid black front and back, and the latest, The Trepan of the Clock, comes with a zine devoted to nihilist and solipsist philosophy. Most impressive, they stick to their dress code not just onstage but on the street: close-cropped bleached hair, crisp black shirts buttoned to the collar, iron crosses on leather cords, jodhpurs, and combat boots. Unsurprisingly, Luftwaffe are fond of dark, primitive industrial beats and shrill, metallic vocal effects, but not every song has the same feel; they experiment with genres and sometimes incorporate downright gentle sounds. "Kronostory" is a Celtic jig with acoustic guitar and violin, and "Onward!" opens with a sample of tribal chanting and segues into meandering, deeply reverbed trumpet over a loose bongo-and-tambourine groove. It doesn't seem like they've got a lot of technology at their fingertips--all their recordings are extremely lo-fi, and it's easy to hear clumsy gaps or collisions in the looped or overlapping layers. But these mistakes and limitations, combined with their unforgiving fascist image, just make Luftwaffe seem oddly charming. If they're frightening at all, it's because they're so committed to such a jumbled and ridiculously negative ideology: whatever it is they're trying to say, they really, really mean it. In over four years Luftwaffe have played only eight shows, most in B9 Invid's former home state of Missouri; this is their third in Chicago, where both members now live. Sunday, July 14, 9:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 North Western; 773-276-3600. --LIZ ARMSTRONG

Additional Info new Luftwaffe URL http://www.kalkisarmy.com

Location Chicago, Illinois - USA

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