Alexander Hacke & Danielle De Picciotto - The Ship of Fools

• - DVD
• 1 - The Ship Of Fools
• - CD
• 1 - The Things Of Desire
• 2 - Rye Whiskey
• 3 - Hey God
• 4 - Violent March
• 5 - The Grind
• 6 - Prayer
• 7 - The Golden Calf
• 8 - Lullaby
• 9 - Blacklist
• 10 - Quiet Village

Alexander Hacke - founding member and bass player of German cult band Einsturzende Neubauten and film composer has been collaborating with the American artist Danielle de Picciotto since 2001, together initiating performances such as "Mountains of Madness" based on HP Lovecraft stories with the English trio The Tiger Lillies (DVD - INDIGO881788), and countless participations on the innovative culture scene in Berlin. De Picciotto / Hacke beautiful new DVD/CD package set "The Ship Of Fools" is a "making of" documentary of their new live show - their objective to explicate the novel by Sebastian Brant in a very contemporary spirit - the interaction among text, music and video represents a state-of-the-art approach to classic literature, traditional and electronic music, art and film. In the DVD, interviews explain their method of creating a show -allowing the spectator to experience a fascinating, creative process whilst watching scenes of the live performance. The beautiful visuals and excellent camerawork make this documentary an opulent, luxurious experience. The CD portrays the audio part of the show in depth, presenting the different compositions of deep bass lines, scraping metal, melancholic autoharps, violent guitar riffs, bizarre sound recordings, electronic break beats, long forgotten tango tunes entwined with Hacke's magnificent singing and Danielle's mystic lyrics.

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