Hackedepicciotto spent the last 14 years as nomads traveling the world, looking for a new home. Now, thanks to a miraculous coincidence and a generous patron, they have settled down in the outskirts of Berlin. “ It was an unexpected ending of our journey, but a beautiful new phase for our creativity”. Their new album “Lichtung” deals with their new home which is also their old hometown. “ We traveled a full circle basically ending up where we started but the change within ourselves is huge and we see Berlin with completely different eyes.”
Sonically the typical hackedepicciotto drone is still there but has been enriched with electronic sounds, more harmony singing and piano melodies. As the author of most of their lyrics, Danielle decided: “As we are back in Germany I thought it is time to also ackowledge this language within our work more and so most of the lyrics are in German this time around.” The show will be accompanied on this tour with Danielle new live visuals. They will also be playing some of their older songs in English.
For over 20 years Alexander Hacke (formerly Einstürzende Neubauten) and artist, musician and filmmaker Danielle de Picciotto (co-founder of Love Parade) have been developing and evolving a symbiotic working practise together, with a deep intuition, underlined by a creative equality that allows both artists freedom to explore and expand.
Individually, hackedepicciotto have been trailblazers from the beginning. Alexander Hacke started experimenting with cassette loops at 14 in the early 80s, then joined Einstürzende Neubauten to create music that would influence generations of musicians. Danielle de Picciotto, fascinated by early electronic dance music, founded the Berlin Love Parade in 1989, and then joined forces with Gudrun Gut to create a feminine version of electronic music far ahead of its time. In 2001 Hacke and de Picciotto began collaborating, creating what the duo have dubbed Symphonic Drone, which is a mixture of industrial beats, electronic sounds with classical harmonies and melodies, with an added pinch of throat singing, Hurdy-gurdy and spoken word. Daniel Miller of Mute goes on to say that “their music is a genre of its own, something new and very intriguing.” Comparable to a modern, musical version of Bonnie and Clyde, they race from concert to concert, releasing albums at breakneck speed..