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THE SILVER THRESHOLD, the new album by hackedepicciotto

Now Available at our Online Store: The Silver Threshold by hackedepicciotto

The Silver Threshold is hackedepicciotto's “most symphonic” album to date. It is expansive, exploratory, and reflects the endless movement across places, landscapes and environments the pair have experienced. They glide across genres that take in cinematic drone, industrial, experimental, spoken word and soundscapes that shift between immersive ambient into noisy eruptions. 

Alongside beauty and tenderness, there’s also the uncertainty of the world mirrored throughout the album. This feeling of being in the middle of the unknown, where uncertainty impends, plays a significant role. “These restrictions and the necessity of confining oneself gave me a sense of the potential,” says Hacke. “It actually gave me a kind of weird euphoria. We had the distinct feeling while we were working that we were standing on a threshold. That it was neither the time before the pandemic or post- 
pandemic. I think we both really felt the potential of that, that we were at this gateway.” 

The album cover was shot by Sven Marquardt - a Berlin photographer and doorman at the infamous Berghain nightclub.

TRICEPHALUS

In December 2019/January 2020 hackedepicciotto were invited to a sound residency in Cork/ Ireland.
For their residency at the “Guesthouse" they decided to collaborate with the inimitable Irish sound-artist Mick O’Shea and organized weekly improv sessions of exactly 60 minutes. This recording is the session which they think best. It is a three-headed beast and sounds like the film score to a futuristic, apocalyptic landscape painted by Cormac McCarthy in his deadliest moments. 

"The Element Of Love" by Danielle de Picciotto featuring Alexander Hacke on guitar

Alexander Hacke / GLICE

Alexander Hacke has re-mixed a track by Dutch noise duo GLICE.

Alexander Hacke hat ein Stück des holländischen Noise Duos GLICE re-mixt.

Alexander Hacke news

AM 14.JANUAR 2021 KOMMT DER FILM "ALLES IST EINS. AUSSER DER 0." VON KLAUS MAECK UND TANJA SCHWERDORF ÜBER DIE ANFÄNGE DES CHAOS COMPUTER CLUBS UND SEINE BIS HEUTE ANDAUERNDE RELEVANZ,  BUNDESWEIT IN DIE KINOS. ALEXANDER HACKE HAT DAFÜR DIE FILMMUSIK KOMPONIERT.

 

ON JANUARY,14TH THE MOTION PICTURE "ALLES IST EINS. AUSSER DER 0." DIRECTED BY KLAUS MAECK AND TANJA SCHWERDORF HAS ITS PREMIERE. THE MOVIE IS ABOUT THE BEGINNINGS OF CHAOS COMPUTER CLUB AND ITS RELEVANCE UNTIL NOW. THE SOUNDTRACK WAS COMPOSED BY ALEXANDER HACKE.

 

Danielle de Picciotto veröffentlicht Ihre zweite Graphic Novel.
"Die heitere Kunst der Rebellion" wird am 25. November im Walde + Graf Verlag herausgebracht und handelt von den Jahren 1987-94, die Danielle in Berlin erlebt hat.
"Die heitere Kunst der Rebellion" kann signiert und porto-frei bei
mail@walde-graf.de vorbestellt werden. Außerdem ist das Buch natürlich auch in jeder Buchhandlung erhältlich.

 

Danielle de Picciotto is releasing her second Graphic Novel. (in German- the English version will hopefully be released in 2021) "Die heitere Kunst der Rebellion" will be published on November, 25th by Walde + Graf Verlag and is telling about Danielle's Berlin years 1987-94. The book ia available for preorder (signed and postage free) at mail@walde-graf.de.
Of course the book will be available at every local bookshop as well.

hackedepicciotto- The Current

Album release 31.1.2020

“The Current” is the fourth album hackedepicciotto have recorded since becoming nomads in 2010. It is their most powerful album yet. After composing desert drones for their previous album “Perseverantia “ and dark foreboding melodies for “Menetekel”, their new album moves forwards, gaining in speed and energy. Alexander Hackes background with Einstürzende Neubauten can be felt in the many rhythmic tracks.  “We had the urge to include more percussive elements and electronic sounds to create a powerful rhythmic feel. A wilder and more danceable element. Something to get all of us on our feet, and moving. Away from depression and hopelessness.” The classic background of Danielle de Picciotto has become more prominent as well.  Glorious choirs and violin harmonies flow throughout the album giving it an almost symphonic sound.

The artist couple calls their music “cinematic-drone” and their album sounds like the film track to an apocalyptic feature-length film, hopefully with a happy end.

GERMAN

"The Current" ist das vierte Album, das hackedepicciotto seit Ihrem Entschluss im Jahr 2010 Nomaden zu werden aufgenommen hat. Es ist das bisher kraftvollste Album. Nachdem sie für ihre früheren Alben „Perseverantia“ und „Menetekel“ langsame und schwere Drones komponiert haben, bewegt sich ihr neues Album schneller und energischer. Alexander Hackes Verbindung zu den Einstürzenden Neubauten ist in vielen rhythmischen Tracks zu spüren. „Wir hatten das Bedürfnis, percussive Elemente und ungewöhnliche elektronische Klänge einzubeziehen, um einen starken Energiefluss zu erzeugen.“ Der klassische Hintergrund von Danielle de Picciotto ist ebenfalls prominenter geworden. Glorreiche Chöre und Violinen Harmonien fließen durch das Album und verleihen ihm einen fast symphonischen Klang.

 Das Künstlerpaar nennt seine Musik "cinematic-drone" und Ihr Album klingt wie der Filmtrack eines apokalyptischen Spielfilms der hoffentlich ein glückliches Ende hat.

Das Album ist sowohl über neubauten.org als auch über https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com zu beziehen.

 

Alexander Hacke

The album 'Invierno Totalitario' by Asturian project ALMA was mixed by Alexander Hacke in his Studio 65, Berlin and is now available in various formats

Alexander Hacke

Treffpunkt Berlin: Alexander Hacke & Lars Top-Galia

12.Nov 2019

7pm -9pm

Roskilde Bibliotek,  Denmark  

(Dronning Margrethes vej 14 (299.34 mi)
Roskilde, Denmark 4000)

Alexander Hacke from the German Band Einstürzende Neubauten and Lars Top-Galia from the Sort Sol (Official Site) 
will be doing a talk that takes us back to 80s Berlin, when the city was divided by the Iron Curtain.

Through music, video, pictures and rock 'n' roll anecdotes, the two iconic musicians and friends 
will discuss the metropolis, the punk environment, activism and the music.

The conversation will take place in English. The moderator will be the music critic Henrik Queitsch.

The event marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. 

Deliverance

Danielle de Picciotto´s new solo album “Deliverance” was produced with Alexander Hacke in his “Studio 65”

Danielle de Picciotto´s new solo album “Deliverance” was produced with Alexander Hacke in his “Studio 65” 

The internationally renown video artist Lillevan has created a beautiful film for the track “Hail” on this album.

The limited edition album is obtainable on https://louderthanwar.com/shop/louder-than-war/danielle-de-picciotto/ and

https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/releases

Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke has produced the new album "Intersubjectivity"  of legendary Finnish band"Cleaning Women"  ,

known for their unusual DIY instruments, in his " Studio 65 ".

The beautiful album which we can highly recommend was released on15th of February 2019 by Svart Records 

with a new video "Leap Of Faith"