With GrundstÃ¼ck, a real rarity is being released on the commercial market for the first time: Originally issued in 2005 as a small limited edition, the much sought-after album is now officially available as a CD and also for the first time ever as an LP, each including a DVD with previously unpublished film recordings of the project and an extensive booklet. With their noise-laden anti-pop, EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten has established itself as one of the most radical, unpredictable and unconventional avant-garde bands in the popular music scene. Looking back to the year 2002: To make itself independent of the record industry and keep full artistic control, the band became early pioneers of crowdfunding with an internet-based fan action for the financing of their next album, which came to be known as the supporter project. An interim work consciously conserved in it's unfinished condition, GrundstÃ¼ck is the missing link between 2004's Perpetuum Mobile and 2007's Alles wieder offen. GrundstÃ¼ck represents what the album title asserts: One's own lot. Aside from material that was produced in the band's own Berlin studio, some parts of GrundstÃ¼ck were played live while on tour, matching the experimental character of the project's genesis: In addition to Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N. U. Unruh, Jochen Arbeit, Rudolf Moser and Ash Wednesday, a 100-member choir made up of supporters can be heard. GrundstÃ¼ck opens with the noisy and propelling "Good Morning Everybody, " based on engine sounds of air compressors and accompanied by rhythmic steel plate beats. The seven-part title track shapes it's core, which in it's atonal experimental spirit represents the non-conformism and nihilism that the name EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten stands for to this day. Closely connected to the album, an accompanying DVD was also produced with the help of a supporter. It was filmed on November 3, 2004, during a special supporter gig at East Berlin's Palast der Republik; the earlier political apparatus of the former GDR state leadership. Exclusive live recordings were made at a historical location, which was torn down shortly thereafter to make way for a demonstration of the power of the freshly reunited Federal Republic of Germany. EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten in the gutted control center of a collapsed state - a witness of the times with the greatest possible symbolic value: Einsturz (collapsing), Neubau (rebuilding), GrundstÃ¼ck (lot). DVD is NTSC all-region format.

UPC: 4015698017434
Label: Potomak
Release Date: 9.14.18
Format: CD

Einsturzende Neubauten - Grundstuck (CD)