E per questo Natale Elliott Sharp offre in dono la registrazione, da lui stesso recuperata solo di recente, del concerto che tenne al festival di Moers (Germania) nel 1990 quando presentò il brano-manifesto Jump Cut assieme a Carbon - allora un quartetto, con Zeena Parkins, David Linton e Samm Bennett - e tre danzatori Butō del gruppo nippo-berlinese Tatoeba-Théâtre Danse Grotesque diretto da Minako Seki. Quel che il Nostro ricorda di quell'occasione, fortemente segnata dal maltempo, lo si legge su Substack o su Bandcamp: "The weather in Germany in May is unpredictable and the hand we were dealt for our Moers concert that year was wet and cold. Sound check proved to be slow and frustrating and complicated by the television crew that was setting up to document the event for later broadcast on the WDR station from Cologne. The chill and damp made for less-than-ideal playing conditions but I felt especially sorry for the three dancers of Tatoeba, who in classic butoh fashion, wore nothing but white powder. We all felt that the performance itself was visceral and focused despite wrestling with iffy monitoring and the damp. In addition to Jump Cut, we performed Lost in Cyberia as an encore, a piece that emphasized the sampled sounds."
https://elliottsharp1.bandcamp.com/moers-1990
https://elliottsharp.substack.com/carbon-at-moers-festival-1990
