Beau - "Fly Upon The Wall"

I was in Berlin, years before the Wall fell. Crossed easily from the opulence of the West to the paranoia of the East. Getting back wasn't quite so simple. Came through Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse. East German Vopo guards searched high and low and underneath. Eventually got back into the West. The abiding memory of Berlin for me however, was of the woman in the red cardigan. There was a viewing stand a hundred metres or so downwind of the Brandenburg Gate, where free-Westerners could gaze out into the unknown across No-Man's Land. From that vantage point, I saw the woman in the red cardigan standing just to the east of the Brandenburg. I waved. She waved. And I thought, "If I come to you, no-one will bat an eyelid. You come to me, they will kill you". Then she disappeared behind the Gate. We flew out of Tegel the following day, a day on which two East Germans were shot and killed trying to cross over. I hoped neither was wearing a red cardigan. "Fly Upon The Wall" is from the "Edge Of The Dark" sessions, an unreleased collection of over fifty experimental pieces recorded between 1978 and 1981.

YouTube | March 19, 2008

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