EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN : Grundstuck

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Format: LP+DVD [CD158682]
Shipping Weight: 0.55lbs
Label: Potomak

5,337円

'Gatefold LP version with DVD. With Grundstuck, a real rarity is being released on the commercial market for the first time: Originally issued in 2005 as a small limited edition, the much sought-after album is now officially available as a CD and also for the first time ever as an LP, each including a DVD with previously unpublished film recordings of the project and an extensive booklet. With their noise-laden anti-pop, Einsturzende Neubauten has established itself as one of the most radical, unpredictable and unconventional avant-garde bands in the popular music scene. Looking back to the year 2002: To make itself independent of the record industry and keep full artistic control, the band became early pioneers of crowdfunding with an internet-based fan action for the financing of their next album, which came to be known as the supporter project. An interim work consciously conserved in its unfinished condition, Grundstuck is the missing link between 2004's Perpetuum Mobile and 2007's Alles wieder offen. Grundstuck represents what the album title asserts: One's own lot. Aside from material that was produced in the band's own Berlin studio, some parts of Grundstuck were played live while on tour, matching the experimental character of the project's genesis: In addition to Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N. U. Unruh, Jochen Arbeit, Rudolf Moser and Ash Wednesday, a 100-member choir made up of supporters can be heard. Grundstuck opens with the noisy and propelling "Good Morning Everybody," based on engine sounds of air compressors and accompanied by rhythmic steel plate beats. The seven-part title track shapes its core, which in its atonal experimental spirit represents the non-conformism and nihilism that the name Einsturzende Neubauten stands for to this day. Closely connected to the album, an accompanying DVD was also produced with the help of a supporter. It was filmed on November 3, 2004, during a special supporter gig at East Berlin's Palast der Republik; the earlier political apparatus of the former GDR state leadership. Exclusive live recordings were made at a historical location, which was torn down shortly thereafter to make way for a demonstration of the power of the freshly reunited Federal Republic of Germany. Einsturzende Neubauten in the gutted control center of a collapsed state -- a witness of the times with the greatest possible symbolic value: Einsturz (collapsing), Neubau (rebuilding), Grundstuck (lot). DVD is NTSC all-region format.'

Tracklist
- Grundstuck
A1 GS 1 5:02
A2 GS 2 2:21
A3 Unseasonable Weather 3:06
A4 GS 3 1:50
A5 Vox Populi 6:11
A6 November / Sie Lachelt 6:04
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B1 Good Morning Everybody
Featuring ? The Bouzoukis Of Anavesos
4:44
B2 Neun Arme / Die Nacht 3:52
B3 Wo Sind Meine Schuhe? 4:56
B4 Tagelang Weiss 6:25
- DVD
DVD1 Opening Credits
DVD2 Nagorny Karabach
DVD3 Ein Leichtes Leises Sauseln
DVD4 Palast Der Republik
DVD5 Grundstuck
DVD6 Grosses Grundstuck
DVD7 November / Sie Lachelt
DVD8 Reprise (50 Tables)
DVD9 Credits

Credits
Choir ? The Social Choir (tracks: A1-A6)
Co-producer ? Boris Wilsdorf
Design [Sleeve Design] ? Oliver Gretscher, Oliver Gretscher
Engineer ? Rocco Weise, Stef van Alsenoy
Keyboards ? Ash Wednesday (tracks: A1-A6)
Lyrics By ? Blixa Bargeld
Management ? Klaus Maeck
Mastered By ? Michael Schwabe
Photography By ? Stefan Kohler
Producer, Music By ? Einstuerzende Neubauten
Recorded By [Occasional Assistance], Mixed By [Occasional Assistance] ? Marco Paschke
Recorded By, Mixed By ? Boris Wilsdorf

Notes
DVD recorded live at Palast der Republik, Berlin on November 3rd 2004.
This was an exclusive event for supporters of phase II, by invitation only.
Als Ergebnis der Phase 2 des Supporter Projektes 2002-2005, war GRUNDSTUCK als CD und DVD auch nur fur die damaligen Supporter erhaltlich. Dies ist nun die erste regulare, fur alle zugangliche Veroffentlichung, erstmalig auch auf Vinyl.
As a result of phase 2 (2002-2005) of Einsturzende Neubauten's supporter project, GRUNDSTUCK was strictly available solely for supporters as a CD and DVD package. This is now the first official release, available for all fans and for the first time ever on vinyl
Sticker on shrink wrap: First official release on vinyl, including free download code, Poster and Lyrics in German and English.