Lament

by Einst眉rzende Neubauten

Lament cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 November 2014
  • Label: BMG
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 49:49
  • Community rating: 3.29/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: H.E. Pounds, Stan Hamilton And His Flying Scotsmen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The legendary German avant-garde ensemble delivers a staggeringly ambitious, profoundly serious concept album examining the devastating historical trauma of the First World War. 'Lament' was originally conceived as a massive performance art piece, heavily utilizing custom-built scrap metal instruments, archival recordings, and intensely melancholic vocal deliveries. The resulting studio recording is a deeply harrowing, wonderfully experimental, and distinctly lethargic industrial masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, Folk, conceptual, history, war, noisy, experimental, avant-garde, atmospheric, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Reel 8 x 32: The Duke Of Perth (4:32)
  2. Jig 8 x 40: The Deuks Dang Ow're My Daddie (5:43)
  3. Strathspey 8 x 32: The Braes Of Breadalbane (8:23)
  4. Reel 8 x 48: Cadgers In The Canongate (6:45)
  5. Reel 10 x 40: The Buchan Eightsome Reel (6:58)
  6. Strathspey 8 x 32: The Lea Rig (8:12)
  7. Jig 8 x 32: The Baldovan Jig (4:35)
  8. Reel 8 x 32: The College Hornpipe (4:41)

Credits

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