Ist Ist is the latest single release from the pioneers of underground music, Einstürzende Neubauten. The new track is featured on the band's upcoming album Rampen (apm: alien pop music).
For numerous years, Einstürzende Neubauten have immersed themselves in live experimentation, dubbing these sessions 'Rampen,' public improvisations serving as portals to unexplored sounds. The recordings from these Rampen sessions, held during the encore of their concluding Alles in Allem tour in 2022, serve as the cornerstone of their newest album. Blixa Bargeld, N. U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit, Rudolph Moser, and Felix Gebhard present their most unpredictable facets.
The central themes of the new album revolve around change, utopian mind games, and transience. The initial material from the album exudes a profoundly eccentric and otherworldly essence, precisely what one would anticipate from a boundary-pushing band like Einstürzende Neubauten.
“On the album, I found a few solutions and formulated things in ways I haven't formulated them before, because they were never so clear to me," Blixa Bargeld comments. "I'm someone who believes you can achieve knowledge through music. It's always been that way. I follow the conviction. I'll find something in the music that I didn't know before. And sing something that I didn't know. Something that turns out to be true. Or, to take this down a notch, something that at least has meaning.”
This album marks the next phase in their evolution, where they abandon familiar conventions, unlocking a realm of new possibilities.
Rampen (apm: alien pop music) comes out on April 5th, 2024.
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