Name: Menetekel
Brand: Hackedepicciotto

Bonus disc

Catalogue number

5400863063405

Colour

Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-28

Signed copies

Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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Black LP

5400863063412

Black CD

Artist

Hackedepicciotto

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Mute

hackedepicciotto is an experimental music project hailing from Berlin, Germany. The duo consists of Alexander Hacke, a member of Einstürzende Neubauten since 1980, and Danielle De Picciotto, an American-born musician, artist, author, and filmmaker. Together, they create captivating soundscapes by blending acoustic instruments like violin, hurdy-gurdy, and autoharp with rumbling bass guitar and electronic feedback.

Alexander Hacke has been a native of Berlin since birth and joined Einstürzende Neubauten at the young age of 15. Meanwhile, Danielle De Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987 and made her mark as the singer of The Space Cowboys before co-founding the first Love Parade in 1989. She also collaborated with Gudrun Gut on the Ocean Club event series starting in 1993. In addition to filming videos for Hacke and Einstürzende Neubauten during the 2000s, De Picciotto organized Bada Bing alongside Hacke—a monthly event showcasing unconventional music and visuals. The couple tied the knot in 2006.

The artistic journey of hackedepicciotto includes various notable releases such as "The Ship of Fools" (2008), which presented their audiovisual interpretation of Sebastian Brant's novel from 1495. They also released "Hitman's Heel

Reissue of experimental duo hackedepicciotto’s third studio album Menetekel. On double black vinyl and CD formats. hackedepicciotto are married couple Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle, the lead singer of the band Space Cowboys and the co- initiator of the Love Parade, and Alexander, a founding member of the seminal German group Einstürzende Neubauten, known for working with the likes of Crime & the City Solution (1987– 1991) and Phew. Originally released in 2017, Menetekel is a darker album than its predecessor PERSEVERANTIA. The album sees the artistic partnership convert the collective worldwide despair felt at the time into a “monumental symphony of sound, twirling and twisting it into a biblical frenzy.” Side D of the double LP is a sound installation that hackdepicciotto were invited to compose in an archaic church in Austria. Here the two artists sing “the echo depends on where you stand,” channelling the philosophical thoughts inspired by architectural influence of the ancient walls, shedding light onto the shadowy depths of modern times.

Menetekel

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