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The godfathers of dark electronic music have done it again. Just two years
following Das Ich’s successful album Lava, the duo of Stefan Ackermann and Bruno
Kramm present their follow-up which has no comparisons. The remarkable dark
Cabaret delivers naughty sound escapades in multiple cynical interpretations of
a basic theme centered around the costumes for marionette theatre. For the
album, Kramm’s usual electronic chamber orchestra was accompanied by a large
variety of vital sounding acoustic collages. This deviates from the usual
electronic blend of Das Ich by producing songs which allude to a twilight
somewhere between claustrophobic reality and unchained phantasmic atmosphere.
Ackermann’s vocals range between incantations and distorted madness to draw the
listener through their visit to the nightmare theatre, giving them a joyride
through their darkest emotions. Next to hymnic song jewels like “Atemlos,”
“Paradigma” and the radical minimalistic dance floorer crusher “Opferzeit” the
album also ventures into experimental sound collages with songs like “Fluch,”
lead by guest vocalist Marianne Iser’s erotic opera-like vocals. It excites and
terrifies as the album reaches its climax with the title track “Cabaret.” Point
blank Das Ich pose the questions “What is imagination and what’s destiny? Where
does reality end and where does madness begin?” Released on Metropolis Records
and available April 25th, 2006.
01. Moritat
02. Atemlos
03. Macht
04. Paradigma
05. Fluch
06. Opferzeit
07. Schwarzes Gift
08. Nahe
09. Zuckerbrot und Peitsche
10. Cabaret
Includes a multimedia section with the original motion picture “Kaleidoskop - in
10 Minuten Licht”!!
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Das Ich - Cabaret |
CD $17.97
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