Morgue

by Das Ich

Morgue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1998
  • Label: Danse Macabre
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 39:20
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Gottfried Benn, Oliver Schneider

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A concept album built entirely on the poetry of Gottfried Benn, setting the expressionist writer's 'Morgue' cycle, the poems that had scandalized German literature before the First World War. It followed 'Egodram' within the same year and stands as the duo's most explicitly literary work.

Genres

Descriptors: theatrical, funereal, industrial, German language, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Mann und Frau gehn durch die Krebsbaracke (4:55)
  2. Kleine Aster (2:40)
  3. Saal der kreisenden Frauen (3:06)
  4. Drohung (1:10)
  5. Curettage (3:32)
  6. Sch枚ne jugend (3:25)
  7. Requiem (3:02)
  8. Negerbraut (3:01)
  9. Mutter (2:36)
  10. Kreislauf (2:24)
  11. Der Arzt I (1:47)
  12. Der Arzt II (1:28)
  13. Der Arzt III (1:29)
  14. Erde Ruft (4:40)

Credits

  • Daniel Galda - performer [das ich are]
  • Dominik Sebald - performer [das ich are]
  • Stefan Ackermann - performer [das ich are], vocals
  • Gottfried Benn - lyrics by
  • Oliver Schneider - mastered by

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