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Blixa injured himself during LAMENT performance in Italy and needed medical attention.
We have now received his doctor`s decision that he will unfortunatly not be able to proceed any further shows this year.
That`s why we have to cancel upcoming shows in Moskow and St.Petersburg with regret.
If alternative dates can be found is not foreseeable at the moment.
We will be posting all infos asap.
We hope for Blixa`s speedy recovery and wish him all the best!

Blixa injured himself during the LAMENT performance in Italy and is in need of medical attention.
We are therefore very sorry to announce the cancelation of the upcoming Istanbul show.

The status of all other dates of the tour will be subject to his doctors decision.
So please watch out for more updates.
We will be posting all infos asap.
In the meantime we all wish Blixa a "Get well soon"!

Einstürzende Neubauten are currently on tour performing LAMENT:

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.

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.

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.

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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Einstuerzende Neubauten are back in studio working on an exceptional new composition.

The world premiere will take place on November 8th, 2014 at Diksmuide, Belgium.
More performances are intended to follow within Europe.

The Einstuerzende Neubauten concert will be the artistic opening for a line of events "Against the neglection: Gone West - the fall of Diksmuide 1914-2014"
More infos will be available in February 2014.
Ticketsales start at April 22nd, 2014.

Live recordings of the Australian Tour are now available in our webshop on USB Sticks.