andreas
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From an interview with franz:
[http://www.punknews.org/article/31300]
Are there any World/Inferno b-sides that haven't come out?
Pretty much of everything World/Inferno has done has come out or have been leaked. There were some demos that were leaked, so people got their hands on that. Trains, which was on the vinyl version of ‘Red-Eyed Soul’, it was a big waltzy accordion ballad that I'm really proud of personally, I think it was one of the best songs I've ever written. There is an acapella project that we did a couple years ago called Vox Inferne, this guy that I know through The Dresden Dolls, I think he's their label guy at Roadrunner, I've known him on and off through those guys for a while and I ran into him drunk somewhere, I forget how it came up, but it came up this Dutch millionaire who runs Roadrunner had this idea that what the world needed was an updated, but anacharonistic acapella group. And I was like, "Are you serious?", cause we'd always joked in World/Inferno about starting a barbershop quartet, me, Jack, Peter, Yula or whoever. And he was like, "Well, if you're serious, I'll email him, and see if he's serious." And I said ask him if he's thinking of the Comedian Harmonists, this Weimar-era, 1920s German vocal group, I think they were a 10 or 12 piece and they imitated all the instruments, they were obsessed with American jazz, and they went under with the rise of the Nazis because they loved American jazz and that was unclean music. They're a great group and we've been fans of them in World/Inferno for a very long time.
So I got an email back from this guy saying "He's into it, I got you a demo budget, record three songs, let's do it!" Vox Inferne ended up myself, Jack, Peter Hess and Yula, and two ringers, more professional trained singers, a tenor named George Wright and a bass named Ray Bailey and we recorded three tracks. We did an acapella version of "Paul Robeson" and two original tracks that have never been heard, which me and Peter wrote the music to and Jack wrote the lyrics. So, I don't know... there have been a couple attempts, we've tried to pull it off live at the Halloween shows and it didn't end up happening, because we couldn't find the other singers and then there was an idea of pressing it up and putting it out free at next year's Halloween show. I think they're great tracks, and I'm really excited for them to come out some day.
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