Bene Gesserit
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Trazegnies, Charleroi, Belgium
There are two bands with the name Bene Gesserit, one from Belgium and one from Australia. The name may come from the science fiction novel, Dune, by Frank Herbert (made into a film by David Lynch). In Dune, the Bene Gesserit are a secretive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain powers and abilities that can easily be seen as magical to outsiders. In the real world, the name “Bene Gesserit” was likely extracted from the legal Latin phrase “quamdiu se bene gesserit” = “as long as he/she shall behave himself well”.
Bene Gesserit by itself means “(s)he shall have behaved well”.
1) BeNe GeSSeRiT were an early 80s art/music project from Trazegnies, Belgium. The members were Alain Neffe and Nadine Bal, both of whom have continued to be active in the minimal electronic and experimental scene ever since. Together and apart they have made music under the guises of Human Flesh, Pseudo Code, The Chopstick Sisters, 3pattes, Messy Goes Insane, Human dance, Cortex, Subject, I Scream, Niala effen and Japanese Genius.
Alain Neffe founded the Insane Music record label, around 1980 and in a self-interview from 1981 had this to say about his music: “Like everybody else, I was interested/influenced by noise, trash sound, very rough and aggressive music. During this period [1974-1978], I used to listen for hours to amplified frequencies found on my short wave radio …” He does not consider the “industrial” label appropriate for his music, likening industrial bands of the era to shock value circus clowns, and commenting: “I have never been interested in the circus, it does not make me laugh. It just makes me sleep.”
1) BeNe GeSSeRiT were an early 80s art/music project from Trazegnies, Belgium. The members were Alain Neffe and Nadine Bal, both of whom have continued to be active in the minimal electronic and experimental scene ever since. Together and apart they have made music under the guises of Human Flesh, Pseudo Code, The Chopstick Sisters, 3pattes, Messy Goes Insane, Human dance, Cortex, Subject, I Scream, Niala effen and Japanese Genius.
Alain Neffe founded the Insane Music record label, around 1980 and in a self-interview from 1981 had this to say about his music: “Like everybody else, I was interested/influenced by noise, trash sound, very rough and aggressive music. During this period [1974-1978], I used to listen for hours to amplified frequencies found on my short wave radio …” He does not consider the “industrial” label appropriate for his music, likening industrial bands of the era to shock value circus clowns, and commenting: “I have never been interested in the circus, it does not make me laugh. It just makes me sleep.”
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