Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld are back with their third album, nearly eight years after the mighty “Nerissimo”, but time collapses and expands like an accordion. Especially those two “stolen years”, that have disappeared from our accounts without a trace during the pandemic.
The new album is titled Christian & Mauro and their real names on the header hint to a more personal landscape who allows them to go through elements of the past like “Bisogna Morire” (You have to die), an incredible passacaglia, a dance of death from 1600 that’s been reinvented from a contemporary perspective. Since their musical roots belongs also to the future, another consideration comes after a book by astrophysicist Carlo Rovelli, it opens up for a different look at the universe.
It’s not always possible to discover new territories without consenting to lose sight of the shore for quite a good amount of time, so across these ten new songs Teho and Blixa allow themselves various detours, playing a large array of instruments, using a mythological keyboard able to play with ciphers, letters, characters, sounds and noises… Using sounds transversely, provides the cue to new possibilities to move forward in music.
The album has been produced by Teho Teardo, Blixa Bargeld and Boris Wilsdorf both in Roma at Basement Recordings and at andereBaustelle [the Einstürzende Neubauten studio] in Berlin.
This music joins again the sky between Roma and Berlin and the tour that will follow its release will take place from November 19th, starting right in Roma and will take them all over Europe.
Released October 2024 on Specula.
Track Listing:
1 Starkregen
2 Dear Carlo
3 I shall sleep again
4 Bisogna morire
5 E’ pericoloso sporgersi
6 Close Up
7 Durch Mich
8 Menschenentsafter
9 Libelle & Gigant
10 Rimangono
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