Sausage Casings and Car Parts
Take B transforms Willem Kolff's wartime invention into an atmospheric 3/4 dark folk waltz with rich baritone storytelling.
The stories behind Sausage Casings and Car Parts
- Liner Notes: Atmospheric Accordion and Dark Folk on Sausage Casings — Take B transforms Willem Kolff's wartime invention into an atmospheric 3/4 dark folk waltz with rich baritone storytelling.
- Sausage Casings and Car Parts: Willem Kolff and the Dawn of Dialysis — In Nazi-occupied Holland, an innovative physician scavenged butcher twine and automobile pumps to build the first artificial kidney.
Lyrics
Kampen, Occupied Holland, 1943
No supplies, Nazi patrols
in the street
One doctor Resues to
surrender
Under the shadow of the swastika's glare
Dr. Willem Kolf saw a hospital of despair
Uremic poison burning through a dying patient's veins
With no medicine to ease the bitter wartime pains
He went to the local butcher, bought sausage skins of twine
Cellophane membranes to serve as a design
Scavenged a water pump
From a bombed -out
Ford garage Building a revolution
Behind the espionage
Orange juice cans In an hour -long re -tub
Spinning the wooden drum
In the underground club
Can human blood be washed
By a wooden wheel?
Can man replace the body with
steel?
Sausage casings and car parts in the wartime night
Willem Kaaf blazed the first artificial light
The father of Eel
Med standing his host
Washing the bladder, a dying ghost
Across the cellar flame,
the poison flees The greatest conquest over mortal
disease
Then in September 45,
when the Allied banners flew
A woman in a coma was brought before the crew
Eleven hours on the wooden drum, the poison dropped away
She opened up her eyes to the liberation day
The first human life by an artificial organ saved
A milestone on the path that the biomed
paved
Sausage casings and car parts in the wartime night
Willem Kauff blazed the first artificial light
The father of Biomed standing his post
Washing the blood of a dying ghost
Across the cellophane The poison flees
The greatest conquest over mortal disease
Dialysis was born from scrap iron and faith
Long live Willem Gough
