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LAMENT the new album by Einstürzende Neubauten is released Friday 07 November 2014 on BMG Records.

LAMENT should be heard as a studio reconstruction of a work primarily designed to be performed live, rather than an official new Einstürzende Neubauten LP proper.

In truth, the piece can only be fully realised, as well as best experienced, in its physical embodiment, performed on or by founding member Andrew Unruh’s gigantic instruments and noise generating devices that visually evoke the horrors the work describes or embeds in the sounds they conjure from the filth and terror of the industrialised 20th century world at war with itself.

But in fulfilling what at first appears to be a surprise commission for such a formidable longtime outsider group, Einstürzende Neubauten transformed the earthy, idiosyncratic contents they mined from academic, state, music hall and internet archives with the help of their two researchers into a richly complex cycle of original and cover songs and performance pieces.

The music often originated in LAMENT’s storytelling needs, be it in terms of sounds used or compositions structured along First World War flow charts or scored from calendars of the involvement of the 20 plus countries embroiled in it.

The way LAMENT plays off pre-existing and composed materials, pieces clipped together from historical records next to direct cover interpretations, or indeed their Frankenstein like construction of an ur-anthem/national hymn delivers a differently angled history of the war.

Finally, LAMENT opens Bargeld’s case that the First World War never ended - the interwar and postwar periods being essentially pauses for breath as the great military powers carry on their conflict at some remove in faraway wars fought by proxy.

’The Cut’ ist ein Soundtrack, der meine Emotionen und Gedanken, die ich mit dem Film verbinde, musikalisch ausdrückt. Die Musik hat den Film von der ersten Drehbuchfassung bis zur Fertigstellung begleitet und gestaltet. Alexander Hackes ’The Cut’ ist ein stolzer Western- Soundtrack, der sich vor der Arbeit Ennio Morricones verbeugt, gleichzeitig völlig innovativ und neu klingt. ’The Cut’ ist das Opus Magnum des Alexander Hacke.“ Fatih Akin über die Filmmusik von Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke's music for THE CUT, the new movie by Fatih Akin will be released Oct 17, 2014 by Hamburg label Bureau B.

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Tracklist

1 Opening Titles
2 March To The Labour Camp
3 Burial
4 Massacre
5 Rakel By The Well
6 Angry With God
7 Chaplin
8 Insomnia
9 Corinna Ludzuweit & Jan Hengmith - Cuban Rumba
10 Florida
11 Minnie
12 Vision
13 Epic
14 Hindi Zahra - Everything To Get You Back (“The Cut” Version)
15) Exodus

Alexander Hacke is guest-singer on the new "Die Sterne" album "“Flucht in die Flucht”.
Video directed by Danielle De Picciotto

Interview with Blixa Bargeld about LAMENT with Sound Clip ... Universty of Copenhagen 6th sept ... starts 01:55:00 ... in English.

Das Goethe-Institut plant für 2015 eine Ausstellung mit dem Titel "Geniale Dilletanten". Subkultur der 80er Jahre in Deutschland. Kunst, Musik, Design, Mode, Film und Literatur. Sie wird in Deutschland und als Tourneeausstellung weltweit in Zusammenarbeit mit Partnerinstitutionen vor Ort gezeigt werden. Einstürzende Neubauten werden einer der Hauptprotagonisten der Ausstellung sein.
Im Sommer 2015 wird die Ausstellung im Münchner "Haus der Kunst" zu sehen sein.

The Gothe Institute is doing an exhibition in 2015 with the title "Geniale Dilletanten". Subculture of the 80ies in Germany in art, music, fashion, film and literature. The exhibition will be shown in Germany and touring worldwide in cooperation with local partner institutions. Einstuerzende Neubauten will be one of the main protagonists with a strong focus on their work.
In summer 2015 the exhibition will be shown at "Haus der Kunst" in Munich.

Liveland has launched a pledge project to make a live album and concert film of the Ministry of Wolves show in Bucharest - it is a great possibility for you to see and hear the Ministry of Wolves show if you have not been able to so far or keep a souvenir if you have and you liked it.
- Pledgers will have the possibility to see/hear the show live via webcam streaming.
- Pledgers will get the live-album and concert-film (if selected on exclusives).
- Exclusives are available and they are very unique : one wolf drawing left by Alexander Hacke and original lyric sheets by Mick Harvey!

The Cut, the new movie by Fatih Akin, starring Tahar Rahim will be running in competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival this year.
Alexander Hacke provides the entire original music for this incredible picture. The Cut will open in cinemas worldwide this fall.

The Gothe Institute is doing an exhibition in 2015 with the title "Geniale Dilletanten". Subculture of the 80ies in Germany in art, music, fashion, film and literature. The exhibition will be shown in Germany and touring worldwide in cooperation with local partner institutions. Einstuerzende Neubauten will be one of the main protagonists with a strong focus on their work.

Alexander Hacke sings a duet with German Icon actress Iris Berben in her new movie "Miss Sixty" (release April 15th ).

The duett can also be downloaded for free here:
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Einstürzende Neubauten are back in studio working on an exceptional new composition, LAMENT.

They will be performing LAMENT in November & December 2014:
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