Game Of Thrones In Concert Düsseldorf

2001 alive album by La! Neu?

Alive at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Live album past

La! Neu?

Released

2001

Recorded

xix July 1998

Genre

Krautrock, post-punk, art stone

Label

Captain Trip Records

Producer

Klaus Dinger

Klaus Dinger chronology

Blue
(1999)

Live at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
(2001)

1972 Live
(2009)

Live at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is a double-disc live album by German band La! Neu? released in 2001, later on the band had carve up. It consists of a recording of their final concert, held at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf on 19 July 1998. Immediately afterwards the concert, the band disbanded amicably (in office due to pressure from Klaus Dinger'south ex-bandmate Michael Rother, who resented Dinger's use of the word "Neu!" in La! Neu?'s name).

Concert and release [edit]

The concert was organised by Dinger's friends in the Düsseldorf academic community - for instance Dr. Ralf Gawlista, who managed Dinger's website. It was to be the only concert La! Neu? would e'er play in Deutschland (they toured Nippon in 1996) as well as the band'due south terminal functioning together (at least under the La! Neu? name).

The concert begins with a brusque piano overture before launching into a 32-minute rendition of "Autoportrait Rembrandt" (from Year of the Tiger) in which Spinello Elze'south guitar is added to Rembrandt Lensink'south synthesizer and Victoria Wehrmeister's vocals. Dinger played drums in concert for the first time since 1972. At the stop of the vocal Dinger twice interrupts Lensink and Wehrmeister's improvisation because he felt they were playing for too long: "Vicky, Rembrandt, shut up!".^[one]

This is followed past "Zeeland Wunderbar" from Goldregen. Dinger's mother Renate sang lead vocals on stage, as on the album version. "Notre Matriarch" follows, again from Year of the Tiger. Disc 2 opens with a pianoforte and vocal improvisation past Lensink and Wehrmeister (not actually a alive version of the song of the aforementioned name from Goldregen). Dinger interrupts the song half-mode through, asking the audience to be quiet, earlier realising that the talking he can hear (clearly aural on the recording) is coming from outside the concert hall. This is followed by an ambient recording of the last thirty seconds of a concert-break leading into "Comme Nuages" (from Goldregen), on which Dinger plays harmonium. This is followed by a 2d (maybe not-continuous) concert pause, in which the ring tin be heard practicing "The Hit ? Demo" acoustically.

"The Hit ? Demo" uses the same drum loop used for "Notre Dame", but sped upwards, and is the just vocal performed not to feature on a La! Neu? studio album. The final vocal is a moving version of "Time" from La Düsseldorf's debut album, in which Victoria Wehrmeister both sings and plays a mitt-pulsate. The album closes with two minutes of applause.

The anthology was mastered in 2001 by Kazuyuki Onouchi, with whom Dinger would make his side by side anthology: Japandorf. A video recording of the concert made by Thomas Dinger exists, and a pocket-sized portion has been uploaded to YouTube. The booklet is largely constructed of the film negatives of Thomas Dinger's video.

Track list [edit]

Disc 1

"Overtüre" - two:58 (Rembrandt Lensink)
"Autoportrait Rembrandt" - 32:27 (Klaus Dinger, Lensink, Victoria Wehrmeister)
"Zeeland Wunderbar" - seven:20 (One thousand. Dinger, Renate Dinger)
"Notre Matriarch" - 22:59 (Chiliad. Dinger, Spinello Elze, Wehrmeister)

Disc 2

"Rembrandt + Victoria | 2" - 6:12 (Lensink, Wehrmeister)
"Interruption one" - 0:24
"Comme Nuages" - 5:43 (K. Dinger, Wehrmeister)
"Intermission 2" - ane:52 (Chiliad. Dinger, R. Dinger, Elze, Lensink, Wehrmeister)
"The Striking ? Demo" - 13:54 (K. Dinger, Elze, Wehrmeister)
"Time" - fifteen:02 (K. Dinger)

Personnel [edit]

La! Neu?

Klaus Dinger - drums (disc i tr. 2 & 4, disc ii tr. 5), guitar, harmonium (disc 2 tr. 3), pianoforte (disc 1 tr. 3), vocals
Renate Dinger - vocals (disc i tr. 3)
Spinello Elze - electronics, guitar
Rembrandt Lensink - piano
Victoria Wehrmeister - hand-pulsate, tambourine, vocals

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