Einsturzende Neubauten - Haus Der Luege (Dig)
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Artist: Einsturzende NeubautenEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-10-23
Music Label: Some Bizzare
Soundtracks:
- Prolog
- Feurio !
- Ein Stuhl In Der H?Lle
- Haus Der L?Ge
- Epilog
- Fiat Lux (Fiat Lux-Maifestspiele-Hirnlego)
- Schwindel
- Der Kuss
- Feurio ! (Remix)
- Feurio ! (T?Ren Offen)
- Partymucke
Music reviews of Haus Der Luege (Dig)
Music Review: The Symphonic masterpiece from their original incarnation
Rating: 5 Stars
With its wonderful depiction of equine micturation and Biba Kopf's insightful and poetic essay on the music-making practices of EN, this is perhaps my favourite EN album -a hard choice to make from so many greats, and one I have been listening to regularly for 19 years.
So, `House of Lies'? Well, we begin with `Prolog', a tersely spoken monologue interspersed with bursts of cacophonous noise made from scraping, falling and generally apocalyptic industrial detritus. Blixa Bargold (their singer, who also used to moonlight as guitarist for Nick Cave's Bad Seeds) intones in German `we could but...' and each time his answer is obliterated, as if any aspiring political manifesto-making is a waste of effort, doomed to failure. This then fades into `Feurio' a word with meanings of fire and fury, in which the case of Marinus Van Der Lubbe, a possible perpetrator of the Reichstag Fire, is reconsidered, set against a pulsing beat which breeds a sense of impatient intensity. Then, by way of counterpoint, we are treated to a `A Chair in Hell', a lilting European folk tune, driven along by handclaps and strumming. And then more insistent percussive structures emerge with the orchestral `House of Lies', taking us into grandiose territory as Blixa forcefully intones a choral epic which finally dissipates to the sounds of broken glass. Never before has the evocation of devastation sounded so beautiful.
`Epilog' ends this particular suite of related pieces, before the trilogy of Fiat Lux/Maifestpiele/Hirnlego begins with the sounds of buzzing bumblebees. We have been led into a world of tuneful ambience in which clocks begin to tick, bells chime, and modulated guitars strum, but then the soundscape shifts, and whilst the peaceful instrumentation persists, the sounds of crowds and sirens recorded at the fall of the Berlin Wall begin to rise up through the mix until the syncopated robot rhythms of `Brainlego' abruptly take over. Its tribal chant is infectious, and the basis of its percussive grounding remains curiously obscure.
By now you will have realised that you are listening to a symphony whose movements take you into uncharted sonic territories and evoke strangely pleasant feelings of fracture and anger. The percussive oddities continue with the whispered `Schwindel', reminding you that when Einsturzende Neubauten make music they rewrite the rules, inventing their own unique instruments. Finally we end with `The Kiss', which features an invention named `the noodle'- a wire hung between two poles which is tweaked to create a lush sound like a lover's heart fluttering.
My preceding words can only give a mere hint as to the atmospheric beauty, the pulsing rhythms, the poetry, and fascinating innovation contained within. This is a fully realised masterpiece, and one of my all-time favourite records, the virtues of which I feel compelled to proselytise. Don't be fooled into thinking Einsturzende Neubauten are just an 'industrial'band-they have little in common with either the genre's originators such as Throbbing Gristle, or any of the music from its subsequent goth, metal and electronic hybrid incarnations. Einsturzende remain a unique and wondrous proposition.
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Digitally remastered digipak reissue of the 1989 album by this innovative and groundbreaking German Industrial band. At times, hard to listen to, E.N. have always been hard to ignore. Their brilliance lies in their ability to provoke a thoroughly intelligent reaction from the listener as opposed to an irrational outburst. 10 tracks. Some Bizarre. 2006.Einstürzende Neubauten's sixth album, 1989's Haus der Lüge, is a real eye-opener as well as a turning point for the Berlin-based band. For one thing, you can hear how much more attention is being paid to rock idioms--clearly an influence from frontman Blixa Bargeld's moonlighting as Nick Cave's guitarist. More important, though, is that the metal bashing, glass breaking, and electric drilling--in many ways the be-all, end-all of the band's early, musique-concrète-influenced sound--is here harnessed in subservience to downright tuneful compositions. The unmistakable message: Hey, we're "real" musicians, too. Still, Neubauten neophytes will undoubtedly find listening to Haus der Lüge a bit like having a dentist clean their ears. The opener, "Prolog," sounds like a German poetry slam held in a subway tunnel, and "Fiat Lux," a 12-minute opus kicked off by 30 seconds of buzzing bees, is bound to get up your bonnet. Elsewhere it's a different story. The beat-heavy "Feurio!" projects an industrial-dance energy, and the lilting "Ein Stuhl in der Hölle" sounds like it was meant to be chanted in a beer hall. But the crowning achievement here is the title track, an epic, foot-stomping, Dantean allegory that culminates with God shooting himself. Simply awe-inspiring. --Steve Landau
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