Diary

with Andrew Unruh on Percussion & Sugar Sachets

Audio from the album Piano Arpeggio by Rudolph Moser and featured on Tatort 01 April 201

Audio from the album Piano Arpeggio by Rudolph Moser and featured on Tatort 01 April 2012

from the album Hitman's Heel by Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke.

"The Ballad of The Lonely Fish" from the album Hitman's Heel by Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke.

Empire Me ... Music by Alexander Hacke ... Premiere, Volksbühne Theater, Berlin 19th of January 2012

Generation P ... Soundtrack by Alexander Hacke ... Premiere: 11th of January 2012 ... Palm Springs Film Festival, California, USA

Audio /visual installation by Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke conceived and put together during their residency at the Meetfactory in Prague (Feb-May 2011)

Sabrina (live) from "Silence is Sexy"
re-released 20.05.2011

Live version from the DVD "Palast der Republik"

Alles from "Silence is Sexy"
re-released 20.05.2011

Live version from the DVD "Palast der Republik"

Danielle De Picciotto's memoir of Berlin, "The Beauty of Transgression" will be published by Die Gestalten in April 2011.

It brings together her accounts of musicians, fashion designers, and club owners as well as other artists and their milieus with unique first-hand descriptions of milestone places and events. It is not only a fascinating collection of stories about key individuals, but also gives an authentic and detailed overview of why Berlin has become one of the most appealing metropolises for creatives from around the world.

All copies ordered ordered here or through the Hitman's Heel websites will be signed and include a tiny drawing.
It can also be bought in international stores carrying "Gestalten Art books" or on amazon.
- this is a limited 600 first edition.

Danielle will be presenting and reading from it on the 15th of April 2011 at the Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin, at 22h which is also the opening of the exhibition "My Secret Diary". Alexander Hacke will accompany her with music soundscapes.

Address: neurotitan gallery im Haus Schwarzenberg Rosenthaler Straße 39 10178 Berlin

She will also be presenting and reading from her book on the 28th of April in Prague at the Goethe Institute at 19:30. Alexander Hacke will accompany her with music soundscapes.

Danielle will be doing a reading tour through Europe accompanied by Alexander Hacke doing soundscapes.
If you know interesting venues for this please contact:
andrea@magnet-musik.de

Taken from the new album Hitman's Heel.
The video was shot in Tulum Mexico with Vincent Signorelli (Unsane) and Algis Kizys (Swans).
The song is dedicated to friendship.
The concert footage was recorded in Prague together with Chris Hughes.

Last week my friend, the great Czech artist David Černý, took me for a trip in his Cesna airplane.

Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto are happy to announce that their first concert in 2011 will be at the legendary Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NYC presenting their new, upcoming album “HITMAN’S HEEL”

Their new album goes back to the basics. After deciding to give up their house in Berlin 2010 the couple is on the road in search of new horizons. Celebrating this restless nomadic lifestyle they decided to go back to classic songwriting, without sequencing or electronic processing. Concentrating purely on their instruments (guitar, autoharp, keyboards, drums) their songs can be performed on any stage and unplugged. Disregarding fashion, conventions or everyday standards, their lyrics speak of the world they are discovering: “Solitude”, “Magic” and “Freedom”. The brew Ballads, gypsy rolls, Italo Western piano tunes, heavy guitar riffs and Autoharp transports the audience into the world of the uncompromising explorer.

As in their previous projects (“Sanctuary”/”The History of Electricity”/ ”Mountains of Madness” and the “The Ship of Fools”) new visuals by Danielle de Picciotto will accompany their performance, but this show’s spotlight is on the music composed conjointly by the artist couple.

The artist couple are proud to announce that they will be accompanied by Vincent Signorelli (Unsane) on the drums and Algis Kizys (Swans) on bass and have invited Pete Simonelli & Joe Goldring (Enablers) to start off the evening with Simonellis hard-assed yet wonderfully poetic narration pieces.

An evening not to be missed!
CHECK HERE!

Concert as part of second day ofEinstürzende Neubauten Tour 2010